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This Saturday (May 25), the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre will be awash in space cowboys as the eighth annual Can't Stop the Serenity fundraiser touches down.
Held at select locations around the world, Can't Stop the Serenity raises awareness and money for Equality Now, an organization dedicated to improving the civil, political, economic, and social rights of girls and women. The Vancouver event also helps out B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation and Avalon Recovery Society.
Monsanto has become a global villain to many farmers for allegedly trying to corner the market on seeds.
It's led some of them, like Canada's Percy Schmeiser, to wage campaigns lasting for years against the U.S.-based corporation.
Schmeiser went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada to fight Monsanto's demand that he had to buy seeds from the company every year in return for purchasing Roundup Ready canola.
Earlier this year, the Texas Observer published a feature article about an organic farmer in that state who was also taking on Monsanto.
Magnet Releasing revealed the line-up for its The ABCs of Death sequel at Cannes today, and Vancouver's Jen and Sylvia Soska—currently riding a big wave with American Mary—are among those who have signed on to direct a segment in the newest anthology.
Released just in time for this weekend's Star Trek Into Darkness premiere, this video shows you just how easy it is to speak Klingon. Through the unlikely medium of karaoke, you too can perfect the language of the traditionally stoic, bumpy-foreheaded Worf. And if you need even more practice, this article has a series of six easy steps that will have you saying tlhIngan HemtaHghach! in no time.
“Pilgrims” and “This Bleeding Heart”—produced by the insurgent local film company Tabula Dada—have been selected to screen at this year’s Short Film Corner showcase at the Cannes Film Festival (which starts today). Although slated for broadcast on Bravo in the coming months, their inclusion at Cannes puts both films in front of a considerably larger global market.
Either one is an impressive achievement. Made by Métis playwright Marie Clements, “Pilgrims” is the fractured and unsettling tale of a German tourist whose hunger for West Coast aboriginal culture takes him out of his depth—literally.
Angelina Jolie was already a role model for many women for her humanitarian work in the developing world.
Not long ago, the film star was visiting Syrian refugees who had crossed the border to flee a civil war.
Now, she's gaining praise around the world for her courageous decision to go public with her preventive double mastectomy.
In an article in today's New York Times, Jolie writes that her doctors estimated her breast-cancer risk at 87 percent and her risk of ovarian cancer at 50 percent.
Mira Nair's latest film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, opens on Friday, May 17, but the Straight is giving away double movie passes to an exclusive advance screening on Wednesday (May 15) at 7 p.m. at Fifth Avenue Cinemas (2110 Burrard Street).
Taking place in New York, Lahore, and Istanbul, The Reluctant Fundamentalist centres on Changez (Riz Ahmed), a Pakistani man who recounts a story to Bobby (Liev Schreiber), an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States.
Once a Princeton grad seeking his fortune on Wall Street with artist girlfriend (Kate Hudson) in tow, the attack on the Twin Towers and ensuing cultural divide turns Changez's life upside down.
The DOXA Documentary Film Festival presents Two Nil at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street) on Sunday (May 12) at noon.
Two Nil is a feature-length documentary from the Czech Republic by Pavel Abrahám. The film looks at bad behaviour in European football arenas, including bad manners, racism, and xenophobia. Abrahám uses 22 cameras to capture football fans seated in both the nosebleed sections and the more exclusive areas.
Two Nil was nominated for three Czech Lion Academy Awards, and this is the Canadian premiere of the film.
The DOXA Documentary Film Festival presents Talking Landscape: Early Media Works 1974-1984 at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street) on Sunday (May 12) at 2:45 p.m.
Talking Landscape is a feature-length documentary by U.S. filmmaker Andrea Callard. The film tells the story of a group of artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, Kiki Smith, Christy Rupp, and Jack Smith, who put on the legendary art exhibition The Times Square Show in New York in the 1970s. Talking Landscape relives parts of the show through slideshows and short films.
This screening is the Canadian premiere of Talking Landscape and the director will be present.
I probably shouldn't admit this, but when I got to interview Gary Oldman for the film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy about 18 months ago, we spent roughly five of the 12 minutes I was allotted talking about David Bowie.
As you'd expect from a creative type who spent his yoof growing up in London's East End in the '70s, Oldman's a major fan (and he had a few tasty things to say about guitarist Mick Ronson, too.)
Anyway, Hollywood schmollywood, here's England's greatest living actor finally making a dream come true with his starring role in Bowie's new video for "The Next Day", along with no less than Marion Cotillard and (I think) retired pope Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger.
