
Although the third season of Game of Thrones might be over and the fourth season isn’t scheduled to hit the airwaves until 2014, fans can still get a taste of Westeros with Brewery Ommegang’s newest brew.
The brewery's Take the Black Stout, second in their series of beers designed around the hit HBO program, is inspired by the Night's Watch and will appear on discerning liquor-store shelves later this year.
The Vancouver International Film Festival and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival present the return of Best of Hot Docs, a weekend of documentary screenings at Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street) from Friday to Sunday (June 21 to 23).
A gay Conan viewer named David attempted to find a mistake on O'Brien's show in a segment called "Fan Corrections".
But how can O'Brien ever be wrong when he's got George Facebook Royalty Takei on his side?
Besides, as soon as someone calls out "heterophobia", you know it's game over.
Ready to part with your prized possession for money? Even your family heirlooms?
The CBC will be launching a new reality TV series from the producers of Dragons' Den to air in January 2014.
In Four Rooms, Canadians will present their items to one of four buyers, in one of the four rooms. Whether it's fine art or furniture, the shrewd buyers won't hold back from doing whatever it takes to go after valuable, unique, and highly valued possessions.
If a buyer makes an offer, the prospective seller will have to decide between accepting the deal, or moving on to the next buyer in the next room. But once a seller walks out of the room though, the deal is forever gone.
Think you can handle the pressure?
The first trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hit the Internet today, and I must say, it looks like an epic ride.
The film, due out on December 13, is the sequel to last year's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. In the sequel, the second part of a planned trilogy, the adventuring party made up of dwarves, a wizard, and one bumbling hobbit has escaped the Misty Mountains and its horde of sunlight-deprived goblins.
A B.C. chef has done it again. Matthew Stowe of Cloverdale won Top Chef Canada season 3, following in the footsteps of season 1 winner Dale MacKay and season 2 runner-up Trevor Bird. At the end of tonight's (June 10) finale episode on Food Network Canada, Stowe beat out Quebec's Danny Smiles to take the top prize.
When the 2013 Miss World competition takes place in Bali in September, don’t expect to see young women parading the stage in skimpy bikinis. Instead, organizers announced last week that contestants will wear long, modest sarongs following protests by Muslim groups in Indonesia.
Naturally, Donald Trump—who owns the Miss Universe pageant, which may be sensing an increased competition for ratings—had something to say about it, and of course, he’s pro-bikini.
The seventh annual Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival highlights some of the best contemporary feature-length films from Taiwan each year. This year’s festival, organized by UBC Literature Etc. and the Taipei Economic and Culture Office, will take place at the Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street) from Friday to Sunday (June 14 to 16).
Six films that fall under the theme of “home” have been included in this year’s festival. Kicking off the festival is the heartwarming documentary Go Grandriders. Director Tien-hua Hua’s 90-minute film follows a group of octogenarians on a two-week motorcycle trip around Taiwan.
For 15 years, the Leo Awards has run a red carpet without getting rained out. Those are crazy odds.
The annual awards show, which celebrates the best in B.C. film, TV and web production, was held yesterday (June 8) at the Westin Bayshore.
Nowadays it seems like I get the majority of my humour from animation and cartoons—or animated cartoons, if you will. Archer, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, that trustry standby The Simpsons—there's no shortage of chortle-inducing material out there if you're wealthy enough to afford cable.











