Buried under the noise of the festival’s many overrated titles was South Korean Yeon Sang-ho’s second animated feature The Fake. While his debut The King of Pigs (2011), a bleak …
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Kore-eda Hirokazu’s latest film involves an incident that would top the list of worst nightmares among parents if only it was more common. Two families learn that their 6-year-old boys …
Inside Chinatown: Ancient Culture in a New World By Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong TouchWood Editions, 160 pages Reviewed by David Chau Published in 14.4 ROBERT AMO’S AND KILEASA WONG’S …
I’m passing through a road I don’t know, looking out the smoky windows of the bus and trying to act like I don’t mind that a beet-red man is standing …
VAFF 2012 Review: Tales of the Waria (dir: Kathy Huang) When talking about the LGBTQ community, one tends to hear of the abuse and atrocities committed by certain hateful individuals …
Set in 2002, Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For brings together the multi-layered voices and history of Toronto, the unexplored lives of urban youth, and the hidden secrets of their families. …
Book Review Published in 15.4 Pulse, the latest novel by Lydia Kwa, opens on a summer’s day in 2007 when Natalie receives a letter at home in Toronto. “The par …
Book Review Published in 14.3 Half World By Hiromi Goto Penguin Group Canada, 224 pages, $20.00 A journey of fierce struggle, marked by macabre characters and dangerous feats, is the …
A Book Review by Abhishek Sharma Published in 16.3 RUMMAGING THROUGH TIME IN Vancouver between 1958 and 1982, Jen Sookfong Lee’s The Better Mother is a tale about the unconventional friendship between two strangers. …
A Dance Review by Eury Chang Published in 16.1 Date: November 5 and 6, 2010 Location: The Vancouver Playhouse, as part of DanceHouse series It was truly an occasion to …