May 14, 2026

GATHER | Web Summit Vancouver 2026 x Global Tech Conference

"We meet at a critical moment in the history of technology."
Web Summit Vancouver 2026 | Vancouver Convention Centre West | Coal Harbour
Dr. Gabor Maté and Twitch political streamer Hasan Piker
Waterfront—(May 11 to 14, 2026) For the second year, Web Summit Vancouver's annual three-and-a-half-day global conference, known as the "Olympics of Tech," gathered 20,235 attendees (up from 15,727 in 2025) spread across three levels of the Vancouver Convention Centre West, once again hosted by the titular Dublin-based technology events company.

May 13, 2026

GENRE | Keke Palmer Shoplifts 'I Love Boosters' x SIFF 2026

"Now's not the time for nuance!"
Keke Palmer Naomi Ackie Taylour Paige Boots Riley | I Love Boosters Neon
Neon / Elevation Pictures
Oakland-based The Coup rapper turned iconoclastic sophomore filmmaker Boots Riley brings his visionary mind back to the big screen in I Love Boosters, a radically anti-capitalist heist comedy screed (complimentary) about a crew of professional female African-American activist shoplifters, dubbed the "Velvet Gang" (Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, and Taylour Paige), in the East Bay that target the designer clothing made by a cutthroat but monochromatic fashion maven (Demi Moore).

May 12, 2026

REEL | Tony Leung Makes A 'Silent Friend' x SIFF 2026

"I want to find out what plants sense."
Tony Leung Chiu-wai Sylvester Groth Ildikó Enyedi | Silent Friend (Stille Freundin) | SIFF 2026
1-2 Special / Films We Like
Silent Friend (aka Stille Freundin), a strange but affecting historical tale by visionary Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi, follows Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung as a Chinese neuroscientist studying a beguiling gingko tree on the grounds of a medieval German university town in 2020. It's a uniquely engrossing two-and-a-half-hour film essentially about a professor befriending an old tree through science.

May 11, 2026

SCREEN | Glaciers and Memories – 'Time and Water' x DOXA 2026

"I cannot send you a glacier."
Sara Dosa | Time and Water | National Geographic | DOXA 2026
National Geographic Documentary Films / Sandbox Films
Oscar-nominated Fire of Love director Sara Dosa explores the environmental impact of melting glaciers through renowned, award-winning Icelandic poet/author Andri Snær Magnason's comprehensive family history in their documentary, Time and Water (see also his book, On Time and Water). It's an elegiac portrait of time passing told side-by-side with the Earth's "memories" as climate change ravages the glacial natural wonders.

May 7, 2026

SCREEN | Swimming Past 'Numakage Public Pool' x DOXA 2026

"Once the pool is gone, it'll be too late."
Shingo Ōta | Numakage Public Pool | DOXA 2026
Hydroblast
Numakage Public Pool, director Shingo Ōta's peaceful eighty-minute observational documentary chronicling the eponymous landlocked suburban Tokyo public swimming pool complex's final months of operations, details the much-loved location through its ten-thousand daily patrons, from the elderly, families, and children, as they fight to keep it open against looming urban development.

May 4, 2026

SCREEN | John Magaro Drives Across Nebraska – 'Omaha'

"I think we're moving."
John Magaro Molly Belle Wright Wyatt Solis Cole Webley | Omaha
Greenwich Entertainment / Vortex Media
Accomplished character actor John Magaro stars as a struggling single father in Utah filmmaker Cole Webley's Midwest family road trip indie drama, Omaha, also his directorial debut. It's a slow but patient indie drama scripted by Robert Machoian that revolves around two children (Molly Belle Wright and Wyatt Solis) and their perspectives on what might really be going on in their family unit.

April 30, 2026

REEL | Anne Hathaway Suddenly Sees 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'

"Stockholm called. It wants its syndrome back."
Anne Hathaway David Frankel | The Devil Wears Prada 2
20th Century Studios
The fashionable duo of Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep reunite for The Devil Wears Prada 2, the fashion magazine comedy sequel to the highly rewatchable 2006 literary adaptation about bad bosses, toxic workplaces, and career sacrifices with a decidedly female focus. Twenty years later, much has changed as we explore the contemporary problems of running a once-glamorous and powerful global print brand with humour and plenty of style.

April 27, 2026

GENRE | Anne Hathaway Hails 'Mother Mary' – A Pop Nightmare

"Catch me by surprise with your sincerity."
Anne Hathaway David Lowery | Mother Mary A24
A24 / VVS Films
Eclectic filmmaker David Lowery writes and directs the gothic pop-horror music psychodrama, Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway as an iconic singer (think Lady Gaga meets Taylor Swift) in search of a new stage costume from her estranged former collaborator (Michaela Coel). It's an all-female, two-hander chamber piece of ghostly confrontation that doubles for the complications of artistic and creative partnerships.

April 23, 2026

REEL | Jaafar Jackson Transforms the King of Pop – 'Michael' Goes 'Bad'

"I believe music can change the world."
Jaafar Jackson Antoine Fuqua | Michael Jackson Lionsgate
Lionsgate / Cineplex Pictures
From the same producer (Graham King) and filmed in a similar vein as the wildly successful but much deservedly critically maligned Queen/Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody comes the ill-advised Michael, the estate-authorized biographical musical drama based on the life of the controversial "King of Pop," superstar Michael Jackson. He's portrayed impressively by his actual nephew, Jaafar Jackson (son of Jermaine, also an executive producer alongside Michael's other living brothers), with the adorable Juliano Krue Valdi playing the younger MJ, and directed by journeyman filmmaker Antoine Fuqua.