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The balcony really is closed with the passing of Roger Ebert. The 70 year-old film critic lost an 11 year battle with cancer today that cost him his voice six years ago, although...
In 1987, the big and important Hollywood film Ironweed was released to critical fanfare and a truckload of award nominations. At about the same time, an independent martial-arts...
 The future is uncertain and the past is fab this year at DOXA. The 13th edition of Vancouver's documentary festival opens on May 3 with Occupy the Movie, a film described by...
The Oscar and Booker Prize winning screenwriter and novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died from a pulmonary disorder in New York. She was 85. Jhabvala is best known for her...
Jesus died today. Jesus Franco, that is, otherwise known as Jess, but just as often known as Clifford Brown, David Khune and Frank Hollmann, among some of the other pseudonyms the...
According to Bryan Singer's twitter, Lady Gaga has landed the role of Dazzler in X-Men: Days of Future Past.  Gaga will join Jennifer Lawrence, sexy Nicholas Hoult, and Hugh...
British actor Richard Griffiths has died from complications following heart surgery. He was 65. Although probably best known as Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter series of films,...
Nick Cave called it “the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence,” and he wasn’t fucking around. Considered lost until a negative surfaced in 2004, Wake in...
Musician-producer extraordinaire  Steve Dawson is presenting Punch Drunk Love at the Vancity Theatre’s monthly Cinema Salon on Tuesday (April 2). Naturally, he’s got a few things...
The CBC building on Hamilton Street is already better protected than the Pentagon. But security has been intensified in the past few weeks since Continuum moved into the...

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