Halloween Flicks: Killer movies for the holiday season

It’s the scariest time of year! This week I cover some genre classics featuring angry killers, freak accidents, and just a little bit of...

Bol: Challenging Pakistan’s patriarchy, queerphobia, and prejudice

Few Pakistani films have managed to confront so many of their audience’s cultural taboos than Bol. Few Pakistani films have managed to confront so many...

A Tehran So Quiet is more than diaspora fiction

SFU alum Mehdi M. Kashani has a computer science degree. He also has an indelible interest in narrative fiction. Kashani’s latest anthology A Tehran...

Book Nook: A perfect read for flu season

Where those of us here on Planet Earth are chemically composed of, as scientist Carl Sagan once put it, “starstuff,” Sequoia Nagamatsu’s 2022 book...

Beyond the time loop: Again Again refuses to play by sci-fi rules

Most time-loop stories rely on high-concept tricks and gimmicks, forcing their protagonists to solve complex puzzles or dodge fatal accidents to escape the cycle....

Halloween Flicks: Haunted houses through your TV

October is the scariest time of year! As a big fan of horror, I love recommending Halloween flicks. This will be a recurring column...

La Familia Latina shows the reality of being Latin American in Canada

La Familia Latina (The Latin American Family) is a documentary following the lives, stories, and struggles of Latin American immigrants in Québec, released in...

Life’s multitude of experiences explored in painting

“What do we carry with us as we move between places, and how do those experiences become part of who we are?” This is the...

Book Nook: Reads on Latin American history

Latin American Heritage Month is a fitting time to revisit and remember the political struggle, authoritarianism, and foreign intervention that gripped most of Latin...

Honouring the diversity of Indigenous cultural knowledge in BC through art

The Bill Reid Gallery’s newest exhibition, Cradled Origins, features eight unique First Nations artists from Nations ranging from Simpcw to Kwakwaka'wakw, working in a...