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Super-realistic The Lion King, real acting from Awkwafina and Eisenberg’s Self-Defense target

Also why our housing crisis is not unique, why English democracy protesters were attacked 200 years ago and moral decline in Argentina just before a coup

The Avengers who survived, two films about women young and old and a look ahead to DOXA

Avengers Endgame is poised to be quite possibly the biggest film of the year. So massive has been the anticipation and the pre-opening ticket sales. How is it? I caught it last night, so read on....

Post-exotic puttyman Gabriel Dharmoo plays PuSh stage

Quasi-experts meet crypto-natives in scholarly spoof

At PuSh festival, hometown militants soliloquize

"Take it to the streets!" A pair of diverse rallying cries.

Australia's PuSh offerings: antipodal opposites

A flamboyant polemical monologue and a riddling Zen trio from Down Under.

Solo tour-de-force recreates Baby Boomers' coming-of-age for PuSh audience

Here I am in a dark room, staring at a dimly lit, translucent cylinder, beguiled by amorphous figures, fleeting shadows and snatches of retro music. It’s all somehow hauntingly familiar, but it took...

Precious, Kurbaan, Mr. Fox, The Road: Movies Opening in Vancouver on Nov. 27

You want grim? It’s here this week, more than once. There’s also droll, frivolous, heartfelt and a slick but thoughtful thriller from Bollywood. (Read more)