Dawson Heating Up Ahead of Short Film Festival
KIAC will once again host the Dawson City International Short Film Festival over Easter weekend starting April 6, 2023.
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Movies & Films Reviews
A Movie Fit For A Woman King
The Woman King centers around the victories and losses of the Agojie in 1823 when slave trading had reached its peak in West Africa.
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Thor: Love and Thunder Gives Us Much To Love
“Thor: God of Thunder” is a very-impressive title, indeed. In Norse mythology this hammer-wielding god was also associated with storms, lightning, strength, fertility and sacred groves.
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Discovering Romance While Escaping Danger
The Lost City: great film if you are looking for comic relief. The script is original, and the cinematography of the island is very beautiful
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Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody is a 134-minute chronicle of the formative years of Queen, and a loosely based bio on the late Freddie Mercury. It is directed
Indian Horse
Indian Horse will be screened at the Atlin BC Globe Theatre on Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 7 PM as part of the Atlin Arts & Music Festival.
It’s so bad, it’s good
In honour of James Franco’s upcoming film release of The Disaster Artist, I figured I had to take a look back at where this film
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Quietly Connecting
“For the first – I don’t know how many hundred thousand – years of human life, (when we were out on the Savanna learning about
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The Hitman’s Bodyguard
The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a buddy cop action movie written by Tom O’Connor and directed by Patrick Hughes (the same inspired genius who brought us
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Trainwreck
A flawed character struggles to unravel the threads of a pivotal event, though hobbled by some impediment – amnesia, maybe, or being stranded in a
Amazon Princess in the Midst of WWI
DC’s latest and greatest blockbuster Wonder Woman: Rise of the Warrior is directed by Patty Jenkins and written by Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder and Jason
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A Rag-Tag Team of Do-Gooders
The Marvel Cinematic Universe strikes again with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, released April 19. Written and Directed by James Gunn with an additional
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Free Fire
Free Fire is a new run at old-school shoot out movies, it is an R rated flick written by Amy Jump and directed by Ben
The Problem with ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’
The film Hell or High Water is a modern western written by Taylor Sheridan and directed by David Mackenzie. This hour and forty two minute
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Power Couple
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when it comes to Pride and Prejudice, once is not enough. For acolytes, Jane Austen’s best-selling novel of the
King of Chicago
The mayor of Chicago is mad as a hatter, but the trains run on time. Having been mayor for a couple of decades, Tom Kane
Live by these words and don’t see the movie
Warcraft: The Beginning is an epic fantasy film that released on digital download September 13, 2016. It’s based on a popular series of video games
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Yukon Stories
Arctic Secrets Directed by Allan Code, a Whitehorse based filmmaker, Arctic Secrets is a symphony of immensely strong and surprisingly fragile elements that comprise the
So Close, But Still a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Rogue One is the first of Disney’s anthology stories set within the Star Wars universe. This flick comes in at two hours and 14 minutes
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Epiphanies
“It’s like everybody knows the story,” muses a reporter to her colleague. “Except us.” The journalists of “Spotlight,” a legendary investigative unit at the Boston
Laughter, Tears, Curtain
It was the short, sharp shock heard round the world – eventually. But in the world of Topsy-Turvy, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado is being
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What to do on Sunday Night
In the 2016 film Captain Fantastic, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen – The Lord of the Rings, A History of Violence), is a father with meticulous
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Welcome to the Party, Pal
“The story is ridiculous – ludicrous.” That’s director John McTiernan blithely dismissing the plot of one of the most successful thrillers of the past 30
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Finding the Right Flick
Suicide Squad is DC Comics’ latest attempt to capture comic book magic on the silver screen. This flick comes in just over two hours and
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Future Past
Young Alex DeLarge and his gang of droogs aren’t choosy about whose lives they wreak mindless havoc on. From the down-at-the-heels to the well-heeled, the
Deadly Fascination, or, Better Living with du Pont
Panama Papers got you down? Still feeling the chill of tax season? A dose of the 2014 film Foxcatcher, based on a true story and
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Ah, Salander
Did Stieg Larsson know his character Lisbeth Salander was destined to achieve the iconic status of a Marvel superhero? Maybe not. In the 2011
Living Blues Legends
Director Daniel Cross visits the southern United States with his latest documentary I am The Blues (2016), highlighting living blues legends in the heart of
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Wonder Dog
In 1918, a young American soldier emerged from the ruins of a military kennel with a frantic, famished German Shepherd and her five newborn pups.
All for One
They stayed in the game … They’re the most-famous musicians you’ve never heard of. Merry Clayton’s performance in the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” is the exemplar
Love, Ambivalently
Many beloved Christmas films had inauspicious debuts. It’s a Wonderful Life lost money for the studio when it was released in 1946, but television viewings
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Soldiering on in the Cold War
No gadgets, guns or trophy girl in sight – John le Carré’s spy universe is stripped of glamour, but all the more fascinating for his
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Swordplay and Flaming Arrows
Winter is coming. You might say that’s our motto above the 60th parallel, but they’re also words to live by in Winterfell, the northernmost kingdom
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A Comedy That is Actually Warm and Funny
Another comedy that’s not really a comedy – that’s been my reaction to many contemporary films that seem to centre on the sad-clown school of
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The beauty and the decay of life around the planet
Since being presented the Palme D’Or and Best Director credits at the Cannes Film Festival for Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987) respectively,
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Down Highway 61
Near the end of his memoir, Chronicles, Volume I, Bob Dylan recalls the seismic effect of hearing Robert Johnson’s album, King of the Delta Blues
Lucy Come Home
Living on a knife’s edge isn’t as exciting as it sounds. It can actually be downright tedious, and that’s what Wendy and Lucy captures —
The Very Bad Thing
Life isn’t fair. Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, Zuckerberg, and Swartz were, or are, all geniuses on the frontlines of the digital revolution, but only one of
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Alexander Supertramp Was Here
In the North, peril can strike anyone in the summer, or the winter. But when Christopher McCandless died at the age of 24 in August,
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Cannibalism: What’s the Big Deal?
In early-1993 my mom took my sister and I to see Alive, a film about an Argentinian rugby team that must survive a plane crash
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No Singing, No Dancing, No Silly Cartoons
Walt Disney’s magic touch on celluloid created indelible memories for many moviegoers, but it induced tears of rage in P.L. Travers (born Helen Goff) at
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The War At Home
An article that appeared in the Washington Post just before Barack Obama’s inauguration as President of the United States, about a butler who had served
On Richard Linklater
In the wake of Boyhood’s lackluster haul at the recently held Academy Awards — it won only one Oscar, despite six nominations — I’ve been
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What Incurable Optimists Can Do
They did impossible things because they were too young to know they couldn’t, and in the late 18th century nothing seemed more unlikely than convincing
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The Tramp of My Heart
Actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin had the soul of a poet and the heart of a clown. He lived by his own moral code and
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Heart and Soul
Soul music calls to Jimmy Rabbitte, an Irish lad living in Dublin in the mid-1980s, and it’s telling him to put together a local band.
It’s a Mad, Mad World
It might have been on John Lennon’s mind when he wrote “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (so speculates Beatles biographer Bob Spitz). It was
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Thumbs Up Captain !
Superhero movies have become increasingly popular, and film studios seem to be pumping them out as quickly as they can. Unfortunately, not all of these
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We’re all works-in-progress
Sometimes it’s hard to believe you’re related. That’s the reality for Maggie and Rose Feller, the central characters in the 2005 film In Her Shoes, a
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Zuckerberg’s Cool Idea
Facebook marked its 10th anniversary this February, a few months before its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, turns 30. It’s not every 19-year-old that changes the world.
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Looking Inside the Hearts and Minds of Human Clones
Somewhere in England, students congregate daily on the pastoral grounds of the Hailsham boarding school watching soccer, gossiping, and daydreaming about the future. They playfully
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The Amazingly Consistent Downward Trajectory of M. Night Shyamalan’s Films, 1999 – 2010
Before I turned my attention to carousing in the early 2000s, I watched a lot of movies, and as a young film buff I couldn’t
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Notes on The Dude
There are Lebowski-Fests and books about the Dude’s laidback ethos. Its popularity isn’t surprising, after all, the Dude abides.
Top 10 movies: A walk on the mild side
(Part 2 of 2) Last week I began listing my favourite movies of all time. I only got to six of them and they all
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One guy’s opinion of the best movies: Part 1 of 2
(Part 1 of 2) My brother and I were on a road trip and, to pass the time away, we tried to list the Top
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All Apologies
What do you do if your family is “the most apologized-to family in Canada?” If you’re Mitch Miyagawa, local writer and filmmaker, you create a
You Can’t Fight in Here, This is the War Room
Between 1964 and 1971 director Stanley Kubrick released three movies, each significantly altering the course of film history. The first of these films was Dr.
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So You Want to Be a Filmmaker?
I was lucky enough to see the two winning entries from the recently held Yukon 48 competition, in which filmmakers had exactly two days to
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Films That Make You Thirsty
Julia Child, the late, great American cookbook writer and chef, was profoundly moved by her first French meal when she and her husband arrived by
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Speaking Truth to James Cameron
I’ve been hiding from most people these days. Not from the usual retreat into my hermitage as I’m generally wont to do – oh no.
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Middle row, centre: Red: Inspired by Two Key Predecessors
Many movies dealing with the CIA seem to draw from two seminal films for their inspiration. One is the 1962 thriller The Manchurian Candidate, starring
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Professional Thumbs
The year is 1985. A young Anthony sits crossed-legged in front of the television. The flickering images flashing across his eyes barely register in his
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