The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Peter Berg’s Hasbro game adaptation Battleship is an obnoxious all-out assault on the senses and grey matter wrapped up in an insincere flag of American jingoism and military fetishism. This is a picture that paints itself up like a U.S. Navy recruitment commercial – boasting endless gliding shots of state-of-the-art war tech […]
I remember the first conversation I overheard at what has since become my favourite coffee shop. It was either my first or second week in Abbotsford. I had just moved in to a basement suite in the neighbourhood and hadn’t met anyone yet. Then there they were. Three girls around […]
Pacific Theatre’s 2011-2012 season concludes with Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know directed by Anthony Ingram. Saints is a probing and thought provoking tale of five people in search of faith and answers to poignant spiritual questions. Despite some talented acting that highlights the realism of the characters and […]
There are doubtlessly several directors capable of turning a campy long-running soap opera into a compelling two-hour movie. Alas, Tim Burton really doesn’t belong on the list. The spooky, kooky auteur may be our most successful oddball visual stylist, but as a storyteller he often tends to lose focus – […]
The human brand We like our heroes to be linear. We like to see them grow at a steady incline until they transcend all possibility of self-doubt and failure. Ideally, they’ll do more than show us the way — they’ll walk it on our behalf. And if they stumble, they’ll […]
To Afghan Canadian filmmaker Brishkay Ahmed in any and all cases the burqa is a tool of oppression. Ahmed begins her film, Story of Burqa in Vancouver where she stands on a street corner and asks a woman passing by to try on the full-length veil. The woman obliges and […]
