CABLE | Feel Like A 'Maniac' on Netflix

"No one sees into your heads but us."

True Detective season one auteur Cary Joji Fukunaga directs every episode of the slow burn, ultra-experimental ten-episode Netflix mini-series Maniac starring Superbad co-stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. To say it plays as a trippy, surreal ride is certainly an understatement.

VIFF 2018 | 'Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.' Makes That Fame

VIFF 2018—Few pop artists have more interesting life stories than the actual music they produce. Britsh-Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. (aka Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam) shows herself to be such a complex, fascinating figure as her documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., titled after her various monikers, reveals plenty of insight into her dynamic personal history in and outside of the spotlight.

VIFF 2018 | 'The Sisters Brothers' Shoots Sideways

"We're the Sisters brothers."

VIFF 2018—Set in 1851 in the American West during the California Gold Rush and based on Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt's historical novel, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard's adaptation of The Sisters Brothers is slightly surreal, post-modern take on the classic western genre of films. It's an entirely clever and wholly original take on men of the old west for contemporary times.

VIFF 2018 | Must See BC – Emile Hirsch 'Freaks' Out

VIFF 2018—Shot in Vancouver, filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein set their secretive supernatural, sci-fi-tinged thriller, elusively titled Freaks, as a mysterious character drama set almost entirely in a single location.

GRUB | Little Juke Fried Chicken x Opening x Davie Street

Davie Street—(August 28, 2018) The popular Juke Fried Chicken establishment opened up a second, counter-service location dubbed Little Juke Fried Chicken in the thick of the West End toward the tail-end of summer.

VIFF 2018 | Must See BC – Flirting with 'The New Romantic'

"I felt like a goddamn lady."

VIFF 2018—BC filmmaker Carly Stone's first feature The New Romantic, about a college sex columnist who explores the world of "sugar babies" (or mutually beneficial romantic relationships), comments without judgment on current trends of modern romance (or lack thereof) and impersonal hookup culture.

VIFF 2018 | 20 Most Anticipated Films (You Should See)

"Expand the frame."

VIFF 2018—It's almost here. As Hollywood awards season kicks into high gear, fall means Vancouver's two-week-long arthouse film festival is almost upon us. The Vancouver International Film Festival celebrates its 37th year with an expanded focus on all forms of multimedia and cinematic storytelling as they showcase hundreds of local, Canadian, and international films celebrating contemporary world cinema.