Kathryn McCaughey on NOBRO’s full-length debut, taxes and snake blood.
MMA movie Warrior rises above its sports movie cliches, writes Clinton Hallahan.
Plus: BPRD after the fall of Hellboy, Little Island Comics and the last installment of the Mome series.
New movies from Martin Scorsese, George Clooney, Frederic Wiseman and more; Apollo 18 opens.
Clinton Hallahan travels to two provinces and two countries to see Attack the Block. “It’s that good,” he writes. The low-budget UK sci-fi flick finally opens in Vancouver tomorrow (Sept 2).
Plus: the return of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Small Press Expo goes legit and more from our weekly comics correspondent Eric Buckler.
Pogo, one of the greatest comic strips ever printed, is on its way to bookshelves.
Who are the heirs to the tradition of independent, individualistic films, as exemplified by recently deceased Chilean filmmaker Raul Ruiz? Regan Payne has some answers.
An interview with Manitoba-born, Vancouver-based and True Blood-obsessed actress Tammy Gillis (Blue Mountain State, Less Than Kind).
Indie comics artists like Chester Brown and Brandon Graham re-imagine Fantastic Four # 9. Plus: Womanthology: Heroic, and news about a couple of comic book stores.
The filmmakers of Final Destination 5 3D have crafted a nuanced character portrait and philosophical meditation on mortality. Not!
Zach Condon and company preview some songs from Beirut’s forthcoming album The Rip Tide.
Lovett’s pure Americana is an authentic Southern-fried feast, writes Rachel Fox.
Could a Dr. Strange movie be in the works? What about The Flash?
Die Roten Punkte are back with a new show full of music, jokes and heart, writes reviewer Zoe Grams.
Music! Art! Yoga! Mud wrestling! The third Bass Coast Project brought together DJs, artists and dancers over the weekend. Rebecca Apostoli reports, with Ashley Tanasiychuk photos.
Julie Taymor’s The Tempest is the latest in a long line of freewheeling adaptations of that English playwright bloke. Regan Payne looks at some of the stranger entries.
The reunited Seattle grunge progenitors are rejuvenated after all these years, writes Cole MacKinnon. Matt Neumann photos.
The new Jon Favreau-directed movie is just not that exciting, most critics agree.
