Let’s face it; Canada doesn’t have the best reputation for literature, aside from the stuffy fodder of literary academics. Our world-famous authors are few and far between, so unless you love Margaret Atwood or Yann Martel you might be SOL for discussing Canadian fiction at cocktail parties.
Some consider it an art; to others, it’s a lifestyle. For many, it’s nothing but an annoying and difficult requirement that you want to do as little of as possible. Regardless of how one feels about the act of writing, it’s done by almost everyone every day in some form.
A woman is wheeled into the emergency’s trauma room on a stretcher. Although she’s conscious, she’s been in a car accident and is bleeding from several injuries. She whispers to one of the paramedics that she’s HIV-positive.
Recently, my best friend of 10 years moved to Toronto to attend the University of Toronto on a full scholarship. Her high school GPA was around 3.8, in the accelerated program. Ridiculous, right?
In the second attempt at adapting a series by popular urban fantasy novelist Patricia Briggs, we are given Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf. Despite being a huge fan of Briggs’ novels, I regret to say that this book is no more successful as a graphic novel than its predecessor, Mercy Thompson: Homecoming.
Interstellar is the latest film directed by Christopher Nolan, the man who brought us such memorable blockbusters as Inception and The Dark Knight trilogy. This movie is a very difficult one to summarize without giving too much away and opinions of its merit are going to vary.
So you want to write a novel? Then now is the time to do so as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), an international movement to get writers to produce 50,000-word novels during November.
Not to be confused with the X-Men character of the same name, Nightcrawler is a movie taking place in the nightlife of Los Angeles. It focusses on one sociopathic anti-hero named Lou Bloom, who’s trying to make a name for himself any way he can, amazingly played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
When I heard that Plants vs. Zombies was going to evolve into an online multiplayer third-person shooter, I was a little skeptical: how could a tower defence game on handheld devices go so far? Well, the answer to that is, beautifully.
Rumble Theatre’s Tremors Festival is shaking things up this year with three shows being performed simultaneously in different parts of the Russian Hall in Vancouver on November 12-15.
