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Culture

More streaming ideas take you to Brazil, low-life China and two Jesse Eisenberg films

New Movies
Volkmar Richter
As well as a cleverly-plotted trip to Barcelona thanks to Netflix
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Movie theatres are shut down, so what’s streaming?

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Three women lead off a long line-up of new movies in town

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Pixar’s new one, Onward, new laughs from Greed and a new Emma from Jane Austen

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Ordinary Love, superb, three superior Canadian films and two imports you can do without

Feb 28th, 2020
Also a TV show most of us have never heard of spins off a surprise hit

The Call of the Wild re-made again, a festival of strong documentaries and a boy’s space adventure in Terra Willy

Feb 20th, 2020

Fantasmes à bout de souffle

Montreal's Tentacle Tribe leaves Cultch crowd breathless
Feb 16th, 2020

Marcus King Band brings Southern Blues North of the border for the first time

Feb 11th, 2020

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, superb, The Assistant, too restrained, Sonic the Hedgehog, fun times

Also Downhill, a weak re-make of a Swedish triumph, and a look-ahead to a documentary festival
Feb 14th, 2020

Unruly Harley Quinn, morality by The Traitor and Elijah Wood’s psychic adventure in Tofino

Also two queer films and dancing to fight colonialism as part of Black History Month
Feb 6th, 2020

Mostly Oscar contenders this week: including Corpus Christi and three classes of short films

Jan 30th, 2020

Films about race and poverty in Paris, low-life exuberance in London and Werner Herzog re-tracing a friend’s quest

Also: damning memories from and since the Viet Nam war, an innovative dance choreographer in 3-D, the latest unhinged act by Nicolas Cage and a new but unseen version of The Turn of the Screw
Jan 23rd, 2020

Photos: Half Moon Run heats up Snowy Vancouver

Jan 17th, 2020

Bad Boys shoot again; Adam Sandler gets loud in Uncut Gems and Clemency ruminates on capital punishment

And for the kids: A superior Japanese anime in Weathering With You, Robert Downey Jr. talking to the animals in Dolittle and your chance to sing along with Frozen II.
Jan 16th, 2020

1917: a must-see, Just Mercy, a should-see, and Underwater, a don’t-bother

But do check out three others making a welcome return from last fall’s film festival
Jan 9th, 2020