The best records of 2014

Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar) Expanding on the sound of her folksy debut, Angel Olsen’s newest is as exhaustive...

The best films of 2014

10. Men, Women & Children Masterfully written and directed by Jason Reitman, the genius behind Juno, this film perfectly encapsulates our era by examining the...

Samuel Beckett at his best

Written in 1956, All That Fall by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett has never been professionally produced in Canada, until now. First broadcast on BBC...

Ryan Hemsworth resists pop music with Alone For The First Time

Ryan Hemsworth’s 2014 release, Alone for the First Time, maintains his trademark eight-bit, intimate bedroom electronica that fans have come to love, while simultaneously...

The Homesman is a haunting, feminist western

There is an unforgettable moment in The Homesman when a pale woman living in a modest south-western style house during the 1800s takes what...

A Touch of Noir

I don’t know what it is about film noir, but it holds a special som’thin’ som’thin’ for a lot of people in Vancouver. For...

Monty Python take their final bow

Broadcast from the O2 Arena in London to cinemas around the world, Monty Python Live (Mostly) included many of the comedy troupe’s classic sketches...

The Winter’s Tale is classic Shakespeare with a twist

With summer in full swing, there are several Shakespearean productions that are being brought to life onstage. The Winter’s Tale is one such play...

Read it before you watch it

1) Outlander Twenty-three years ago Diana Gabaldon published Outlander, a novel that was mostly historical fiction, but included some romance fantasy aspects, making it hard...

Representing the survivors of the DTES

Taking a walk down the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, it’s easy to see the prevalence of pain; neglect and poverty is spread across a...