Film Reviews

The WFFS says the festival's success is imminent. All they need is that Rainbow Theatre UPGRADE

Life and art are all about balance. Good and evil, yin and yang, utopia and dystopia. This week let's stick with dystopia because that makes way better movies.

Maybe I don't give the Hollywood studios enough credit, because somebody down there came up with the fun idea to release two films directed by Paul Anderson on the same day.

Well it's almost shoulder season, that mini-recession that happens every year and yet somehow seems impossible to prepare for. The next few months are about longer nights and smaller paycheques.

New Absinthe film Resonance premiers at Millennium Place on Tuesday

Marijuana is in the news a lot out here in B.C., with a lot of people calling the U.S.-spearheaded "War on Drugs" a total failure.

It's a shame Premium Rush didn't open last week during Crankworx because it's about a New York City bike messenger whose afternoon gets a whole lot more fast-paced when he picks up his last delivery of the day, or maybe his life.

Welcome to "Notes from the Back Row" #520. That's 10 years of weekly movie insight sandwiched between inflammatory comments and (hopefully) some decent chuckles.

Garibaldi 5 Cinema in Squamish has fallen prey to industry changes

First off, let's pour some on the block and observe a moment of cinematic silence for the Garibaldi 5, Squamish's only movie theatre. I hope I heard wrong but word around the campfire is the silver screens of Squampton are going dark. ( Ed.