The Vancouver Art Gallery’s current exhibit looks at several pieces by notable names of the French Modernist movement, from Realism, through Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, and Cubism. Paintings make up the bulk of the exhibit, with some sculpture work included from artists of the time. The cornerstones of the collection are several paintings from Paul Cézanne.
True to teen movie form, The DUFF is a witty and cheesy examination of the labelling and cyber-bullying problems of today’s youth.
If the purpose of the Academy Awards Best Picture category is to reward the single most significant piece of filmmaking in any given year, 2015 is a year when it failed. Among IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic scores for Birdman and Boyhood, Boyhood beats Birdman on every account.
Birdmanor (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) took home the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as Best Director, Screenplay, and Cinematography on February 22.
From photographs to abstract paintings, simple sketches to glitzy mixed media, the Let Me Count the Ways exhibit by Artists in the Boro explores different types of love by invoking the five senses. The exhibit borrows its title from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem, “How Do I Love Thee?” and features 23 works from 14 local artists.
Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell: Innocence are set in a cyberpunk world where people project their minds into robot bodies called “shells” and computers can hack people’s brains. These films are considered two of the most influential and philosophically long-winded sci-fi anime in history, defining the genre for over a decade.
What better way to waste time than by playing a game about wasting time?
The character of Angela comes from the minds of Todd McFarlane and Neil Gaiman, the writers who originally brought us Spawn and the Sandman. As you would expect, there are heavy religious themes surrounding her in Angela: Asgard’s Assassin.
The Wachowski siblings made a name for themselves with The Matrix Trilogy, becoming known for their creative world-building and originality. That’s exactly what they deliver in their new sci-fi epic Jupiter Ascending.
The latest comic book adaptation from director Matthew Vaughn is Kingsman: The Secret Service, a cheeky homage to the classic James Bond 007 franchise.
