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Premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (Austin, Texas) as part of the Headliner section.

More than anything, its fight choreography and action start to get repetitive over the 132-minute film, clearly more suited to the conventionally structured, separated chapters it obviously originally had in mind.

It has been a week since the much talked about Oakridge Park shopping mall opened. The mall features one central food court, the Time Out Market, which aims to bring together the best of local cuisine.

It’s goofy fun that’s overstuffed with colourful imagery and imaginative nonsense aimed mostly at grown children who are now nostalgic adults.

The attractive trio of Eiza González, Henry Cavill, and Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Ritchie's latest international heist thriller. In a novel bit of narrative structure, the various characters lay out their entire plan, including contingencies, throughout the film as a series of constant but convoluted criminal explanations on legal procedures. All this makes for a confusing and entirely unexciting endeavour despite the fine cast, exotic locations, and generally stylish action.

Premiered at the 2026 Hot Docs Festival (Toronto).

Screened at the 2025 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival (Austin, Texas) as part of the Narrative Spotlight section.

Island Floating Sauna x Campbell River x Vancouver Island.

A video essay by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou [...] exploring how Wes Anderson's career-long experiments with visual humour reach new heights in his 2018 animated film, Isle of Dogs.

Steak station: smoked ribeye, New York striploin, and filet.

Mattel's blockbuster live-action adaptation of the once-popular 1980s toy line and accompanying cartoon series stars the affable Nicholas Galitzine as the powerful He-Man, Prince of Eternia, with a fierce Camila Mendes as Teela, his "Warrior Goddess" sidekick. Knight's kinetic direction moves the sword and sorcery action forward in a propulsive manner. However, its overabundance of violent fantasy combat stretches the wholly unnecessary 2⅓-hour runtime. There's more than enough jam-packed, dizzying action clearly inspired by mashing action figures together, set in a magical realm full of cyborgs, talking tigers, mystical swords, and a skull-faced villain, Jared Leto's maniacal Skeletor. It's goofy fun, overstuffed with colourful imagery and imaginative nonsense, aimed mostly at grown children who are now nostalgic adults.

Beach Fire Brewing x Campbell River x Vancouver Island.

A sweet Hugh Jackman briefly stars in the cozy, talking animal murder mystery based on German crime author Leonie Swann's 2005 detective novel Three Bags Full. Set on an English farm, a flock of sheep must solve the murder of their beloved, mystery novel-reading shepherd in a sappy but delightful comedy that warms the heart. Scripted by Craig Mazin, it's light fun that derives much of its humour from the contrast between the dim but sweet barnyard animals and the quirky townspeople.

"The Sovereign AI Blueprint": Canadian Minister of AI and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon, Cohere Chief AI Officer Joelle Pineau, and Bloomberg Vancouver Bureau Chief Thomas Seal.

[Go] inside BC Place as it prepares for the FIFA World Cup 2026. The stadium must switch from artificial turf to real soccer grass, expand VIP areas, upgrade accessibility, and meet strict global standards—without fully shutting down.

Steak station: smoked ribeye, New York striploin, and filet.

While everybody commits to the costume genre schtick, over the course of a season of eight episodes, the shadowy comic book film noir series loses its freshness outside the familiar confines of a contained, two-hour period movie.