GENRE | Adria Arjona Terminates 'Onslaught'

"Prolonged exposure breaks the mind."

A24 / VVS Films

After a stint in big-budget Godzilla vs. Kong fare, indie genre director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett reteam for The Terminator-inspired action-slasher thriller, Onslaught. Starring a battered and bruised Adria Arjona as a PTSD-suffering, former army sniper battling against an experimental rogue team of genetically engineered, chainsaw-wielding super-soldiers, the slick but ultimately underwhelming 1970-80s John Carpenter homage sets up a straightforward midnight movie.

VIFF 2026 | 10 Most Anticipated Films (You Should See)

"VIFF is quickly becoming the archetype of the modern film festival."

Image | Zak Design Studio

VIFF 2026—(August 26, 2026) Fall film festival season is on the horizon. Rejoice, as our city's eleven-day arthouse filmmaking showcase, the 45th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, is just around the corner, next month. Plan accordingly for VIFF's yearly output of mixed-media entertainment programming, anchored by hundreds of Canadian and global films from around the world, screened across the city in celebration of contemporary cinema.

WEEKENDER | Brewery and the Beast 2026 x False Creek

"Bringing together the best food and drink has always been at the heart of Brewery and the Beast."

pork tacos (with xnipec salsa and corn tortillas) from La Taqueria

False Creek—(August 30, 2026) Back for some late summer, "all-you-can-savour" barbecued meat festivities, the 13th annual Brewery and the Beast Vancouver drew hundreds of hungry diners to Concord Pacific Place for another edition of Western Canada's premier outdoor food and craft beer festivals on a refreshingly overcast Sunday afternoon.

REEL | Dakota Fanning Gets Over 'The Sun Never Sets'

"I like you as a boat girl."

Independent Film Company / Mongrel Media

Micro-budget auteur Joe Swanberg is back with his latest indie romantic dramedy, The Sun Never Sets, starring Dakota Fanning as a thirty-something woman reflecting on her life and age-gap relationship. After spending the summer apart from her divorced but loving, long-term boyfriend (a shockingly clean-shaven Jake Johnson) with a family of his own, she runs into her toxic ex (Cory Michael Smith), and some predictable but hilarious romantic complications ensue.

GENRE | Na Hong-jin Never Loses 'Hope' x TIFF 2026

"Bring forth true fate."

Neon / Elevation Pictures

South Korean genre director Na Hong-jin's new sci-fi alien action thriller, Hope, boasts the highest budget for a film ever from the East Asian nation while featuring some of the truly worst CGI seen in a major release in many years. It's difficult to describe just how electric the first hour is when audiences are dropped into the eponymous harbour town chasing monsters before the poorly rendered creatures are revealed.

CABLE | DC Raises the Green 'Lanterns' on HBO

"Harry Potter went to Hogwarts, you ignorant alien f*ck!"

Warner Bros. Television / DC Studios

HBO's television adaptation of DC's intergalactic team of "space cops," known as the Green Lantern Corps, stars Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre as the two most famous incarnations of the superheroes, Hal Jordan and John Stewart (not to be confused with the venerable The Daily Show host), in a True Detective-style road murder mystery grounded firmly on Earth. The shortened and colourlessly titled Lanterns, created by showrunner Chris Mundy, screenwriter Damon Lindelof, and comic book writer Tom King, turns our emerald interstellar patrolmen into a rather compelling vehicle for an episodic sci-fi neo-noir series.

REEL | 'Looney Tunes' Sues the Pants Off 'Coyote vs. Acme'

"You tawt you taw? I don't pay you to tink you taw. I pay you to taw!"

Ketchup Entertainment / VVS Films

Coyote vs. Acme, director Dave Green's nearly shelved (for tax write-off purposes) Warner Bros. Animation hybrid live-action comedy produced by James Gunn, is finally here, and it's pretty good. Its simple but somewhat ingenious premise of famed loser Looney Tunes cartoon character, Wile E. Coyote, suing the Acme Corporation for its faulty products causing him injury, distress, and failure is a brilliant stand-in for some real-life (coincidental) business shenanigans by a certain media conglomerate and its parent companies.

GENRE | Dave Franco and O'Shea Jackson Jr. Act Like 'Idiots'

"So, you're like The Transporter?"

Independent Film Company / VVS Films

Independent filmmaker and character actor Macon Blair writes and directs the aptly titled slacker road trip comedy, Idiots (originally titled The Sh*theads). Starring a degenerate Dave Franco (also a producer) and devout O'Shea Jackson Jr. as shady transport service co-workers and Mason Thames as the zonked-out, devilish rich kid addict they must forcibly escort to rehab, the film sticks to the usual The Hangover formula on its predictable things-go-wrong detour of a destination mission (think The Last Detail).

REEL | Willem Dafoe Waxes on 'Late Fame' in Life x SIFF 2026

"You must have been beautiful when you were young."

Magnolia Pictures / Vortex Media

Late Fame, based on Austrian dramatist Arthur Schnitzler's posthumous 1895 novella (translated and published in 2014) of the same name, is directed by New York film critic and programmer turned independent filmmaker Kent Jones and stars Willem Dafoe as an unknown, long lost poet who, as the title suggests, experiences a bit of late-in-life interest and newfound resurgence in his previously published works within a privileged but affluent circle of wealthy, post-graduate literary admirers in present day Manhattan.