Yelin Gemma Lee
Patricia Piccinini’s “Curious Imaginings” will take your breath away
November 19, 2018By: Yelin Gemma Lee Patricia Piccinini’s “Curious Imaginings” feels like a gift of an experience. It is very intimate, and it takes you gently into what the official exhibit website describes as a “world of oddly captivating, somewhat grotesque, human-animal hybrid creatures” that look so lifelike that it can be overwhelming. This exhibit will make you rethink the way you were taught to think, and it will challenge you to come visit and experience something you have never experienced before. Pictures, videos, and even this article cannot begin to summarize or do justice to this groundbreaking sensual experience. …
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SFU alumnus builds his compassionate legacy through Modern Warrior: Academy of Self Defense
November 17, 2018By: Yelin Gemma Lee “Keep going! Your spirit is in here!” Sasha's encouraging, booming voice cuts through the music in a room full of students dripping with sweat, warming up for his kickboxing class. He is right…
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Co-Creators’ themes captivated audiences at DOXA 2018
August 1, 2018Written by: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Lonnie Nadler, author of The Dregs has produced a feature film over the course of four years of work. And it is phenomenal. The documentary, called Co-Creators: The Rat Queens Story…
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Game Night softens the blow of unexpected twists with good comedy
April 10, 2018By: Yelin Gemma Lee Calling all murder mystery fanatics and Clue players! Buckle the fuck up for a riot of a movie — everything you didn’t know you wanted, rolled up into one beautiful hour-and-40-minute film reel called Game Night.…
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The Post tackles the moral realities of a free press
March 3, 2018By: Yelin Gemma Lee The Post is a relevant drama-thriller very similar in both theme and feel to the award-winning film Spotlight — which happens to be one of my favourite movies of all time. Going into this movie, I…
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The Takashi Murakami exhibit shocks and delights Metro Vancouver
February 18, 2018By: Yelin Gemma Lee Takashi Murakami’s The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg exhibition, which is running at the Vancouver Art Gallery from February 3–May 6, is extraordinary. It’s a loud anthem-like calling to all artists of any kind to go…
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Lady Bird almost depicts teen angst too well
January 22, 2018By: Yelin Gemma Lee This year’s Golden Globe for best motion picture in the musical or comedy category was awarded to Lady Bird and I have some things to say about it. It’s an undeniable fact that it is quite…
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Logan Lucky is the best movie you didn’t know you wanted to see
October 17, 2017By: Yelin Gemma Lee I’m just going to come right out and say it: Logan Lucky is a fucking phenomenal movie. There was nobody more skeptical than me — the trailer was awful. I remember the first time I watched…
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The Dregs: a graphic novel set in the Downtown Eastside
October 16, 2017By: Yelin Gemma Lee The Dregs is a graphic novel about a homeless detective at the heart of the opioid-crisis-ridden Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, where behind the scenes the homeless are being made into meat to be served at high-end…
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Album Reviews
October 4, 2017By: Neil MacAlister and Yelin Gemma Lee Highly Intoxicated by Juicy J It’s easy to look at Juicy J as a simple party rapper, the guy responsible for songs like “Bandz a Make Her Dance” and “Dark Horse,” but he’s had…
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