CINEMA | John David Washington Meets 'The Creator'

"They're not people [...]. It's just programming."

20th Century Studios / New Regency

Embattled Rogue One director Gareth Edwards makes his largely triumphant return to sci-fi blockbuster filmmaking after a seven-year absence. The Creator is a visually arresting, often technically dazzling original piece of somewhat derivative entertainment.

GRUB | Fast Food Italian Style x Monzo Burger x Opening x Granville

Granville—(September 7, 2023) Kitchen Table Restaurants opened its hotly anticipated retro burger joint (their twelfth restaurant) called Monzo Burger (a spin on the word "Manzo"—Italian for "beef") located on the ground floor of the Vancouver House building to much local fanfare by giving away free cheeseburgers to its first thousand customers.

VIFF 2023 | ESPN on Public Shaming – 'I'm Just Here for the Riot'

"You have to kinda put yourself in the mindset of 2011."

Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF 2023—ESPN relives the infamous hockey riots that started after the Vancouver Canucks' devastating game seven home loss in the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup Final. Co-directed by local documentary filmmakers Kathleen S. Jayme (a two-time VIFF Audience Award-winner) and Asia Youngman, I'm Just Here for the Riot dissects public shaming through our city's disobedient history of disapointing hockey losses.

VIFF 2023 | 10 Most Anticipated Films (You Should See)

"Vancouver is a city for filmmakers and cinephiles."

Image | Zak Design Studio

VIFF 2023—(September 6, 2023) Get ready for the city's eleven-day arthouse cinematic showcase when the 42nd annual Vancouver International Film Festival kicks off at the end of the month. Choose between all of VIFF's smörgåsbord of multimedia offerings as hundreds of films from across the continent and world are screened in celebration of contemporary cinema.

CINEMA | Talking Heads Starts 'Stop Making Sense' x TIFF 2023

"Talking Heads was such a good band."

Toronto International Film Festival

A24's newly acquired, soon-to-be re-released 1984 seminal Talking Heads live rock documentary directed by the late Jonathan Demme has been gloriously restored in sparkling 4K video optimized for IMAX screens. Long considered "the greatest concert film ever" made, Stop Making Sense's pulsating musical cinematic composition feels as energetic and rhythmically innovative as ever, nearly four decades later.

SCREEN | Emilia Clarke Gives Birth to 'The Pod Generation'

Vertical Entertainment / Photon Films

French-American filmmaker Sophie Barthes travels into the near future for a science fiction romantic comedy starring Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor as prospective parents in The Pod Generation. As the title slightly hints, technology has developed where a woman no longer has to give birth as special egg-like pods can now hatch newborn babies.

WANDER | Meet Me in Gastown x Café Kitsuné x Water Street

Gastown—(August 31, 2023) On Lst week, several blocks of the historic Water Street were cordoned off to traffic and taken over by pedestrians for the second annual Meet Me in Gastown street festival in celebration of local dining, shopping, and live music.

SCREEN | Lily Gladstone Discovers 'The Unknown Country'

"Just kinda floatin'."

Music Box Films / Cold Iron Pictures

Acclaimed Native American actress Lily Gladstone (also a co-writer) stars in the moving cross-country road trip indie drama The Unknown Country. Visual artist turned filmmaker Morrisa Maltz crafts an unconventional film telling all the little stories of the lives of strangers you meet along your travels as Gladstone's Tana reconnects with her extended family while mourning the loss of her grandma.

CINEMA | 'Bottoms' Empowers A Queer Female Fight Club

"Everyone hates us for being gay, untalented, and ugly."

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Warner Bros. Pictures

Shiva Baby duo, Toronto-raised director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott, reteam to co-write the hilariously unhinged queer teen sex comedy Bottoms. Inspired by classic high school movies of the past, things go off the rails when Sennott and Ayo Edebiri's loser lesbian classmates and childhood best friends, PJ and Josie, start their own female fight club (under the guise of self-defence) in order to try and hook up with cheerleaders and lose their virginities.