The Fairy Tales Film Festival is 16 years old and opened to sunny skies and enthusiasm this past weekend. Saturday marked…
by Kaitlin Moerman VANCOUVER – Video killed the radio star. Then the Internet burst in and scattered everything into a…
Monthly Archives: May 2014
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LulTOKxAdM0&w=470&h=264] It’s time again for everyone’s favourite festival of LGBT-oriented films. I’m referring, of course, to Fairy Tales Film…
Jennifer M. Groot’s documentary is a campy, entertaining film that explores George Takei’s personal history and career spanning five decades,…
THE VAST, COSMIC ARENA “I always find it hard to explain to people, what is the goal, what is the…
AB, Alberta
DROP OUT OF LIFE Channeling the cosmic, phase-shifted frequencies of space rock overlords, Hawkwind, and the psychedelic stoner grooves of…
AB, Alberta
AT THE THRESHOLD Local death metal faction, KYOKTYS, formed in mid-2010 thanks to a flurry of ideas centralized around the…
AB, Alberta
A FILM THAT NEVER QUITE GETS THERE [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7lSsLtg3w&w=470&h=264] The central conceit of Hollywood polymath John Turturro’s fifth effort in…
WORTH THE VISIT BUT DOESN’T MEAN YOU’D WANT TO LIVE THERE [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTqMUu1iTIo&w=470&h=264] In Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, youth drift…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgFws3AoIUY&w=470&h=264] Within the last several years, director Jon Favreau has gone down the big-budget directorial route. He kicked off…
LEADERS IN THEIR COMMUNITY The number of active bands based out of Calgary these days is staggering. The city has…
AB, Alberta
By Matty Hume CALGARY – Spawning and level grinding in Boston, Massachusetts, the metal-clad bards of pop-culture-past known as…
Dickens Pub, Powerglove, Rickshaw Theatre, Starlite Room
