Film Reviews

The first event of Whistler's 20th annual World Ski and Snowboard Festival (WSSF) is State of the Art — a 10-day, 930-sq.-m. pop-up gallery showcasing over 50 artists and hundreds of pieces.

The seventh film in a franchise is rarely a big deal, but Furious 7 opens this week at the Whistler Village 8 to quite a bit of fanfare, mostly because it's our last look at franchise star Paul Walker who died tragically in September 2013 before film

Transparency is huge these days.

Is this like a super-delayed midlife crisis thing? A self-serving virility confirmation wherein middle-aged actors with solid dramatic chops suddenly feel the urge to shoot guns, pump iron and star in action films? I don't mean tongue-in-cheek shoot-

You got a law against loud music? Kevin Bacon asks that in the 1984 classic Footloose before he punch-dances his way through a town full of tight-assed hillbillies to save the day.

The waters in Lark Harbour, Newfoundland, are frozen solid right now and the snow banks in town are easily four metres high.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. -Hunter S. Thompson, 2001 Even so, nobody likes a charlatan.

Kanye West talks a lot of really dumb shit but he made at least one valid point last week: if the awards shows are really, honestly about celebrating artistry and creativity, the orchestra probably shouldn't start playing the artists and creators off

Who cares about the Grammys? An extended red-band trailer for Straight Outta Compton dropped last week and while everyone over the age of 35 is for a throwback to the cars with hydraulic lift kits, big gold chains, and straight-up gangsterism of late

The numbers are in and last weekend's Superbowl pulled in record viewership — 120.8 million people tuned in for the dramatic fourth quarter (Katy Perry's figure, dancing sharks and lip-synching only nabbed 118.