Film Reviews

The big news is the Whistler Village 8 has been sold, and it seems the new owners will continue to operate the movie screens, so that is a relief. (See story page 62.

We have a new government in Canada this week, and a new prime minister who snowboards and has spent real time living in Whistler. I find that promising because there are lessons in life that are best learned only through time spent in the mountain.

Looping back onto last week's musings on the art of sport (with a nod to the start of hockey season), the download of the week is Red Army , a documentary peek behind the iron curtain of the Cold War-era Soviet Union and their formidable Red Army hoc

T he Walk opens this week and it raises the question of what is, or can be, considered art. Film is art and painting is art but so are less permanent forms like dance, theatre and music.

They found evidence of liquid water on Mars last week so it's very serendipitous that The Martian opens this week at the Whistler Village 8.

E verest is out this week.

Iron Maiden dropped a new album earlier this month, their 16th, and it is pretty frickin' awesome. The record is called Book of Souls and the coup de grace is an 18-minute track called "Empire of the Clouds.

Autumn hasn't even cracked officially in Whistler and already it is feeling like a good time to catch up on some marathon TV show sessions.

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Banksy Art is in the eye of the beholder.

Just playin'. Nic Cage is not running for prime minister (I wish) but he does play a politician in the upcoming The Runner so there's no doubt he'd do a better job than the clowns who have been running the show lately. Because Nic Cage rules.