WEEKENDER | Vancouver International Wine Festival 2026

"Discover a world of wine."

Waterfront—(March 12 and 13, 2026) Wine lovers gathered together once more for the 47th annual Vancouver Wine Festival and its week-long celebration of alcoholic grape drink-related festivities. Tens of thousands of VIWF attendees wined and dined themselves while attending countless seminars, minglers, pairing meals, and signature tasting events across eight days of fun, known as "the largest wine festival in the Americas."

REEL | Ryan Gosling Saves the Universe – 'Project Hail Mary'

"I put the 'not' in astronaut!"

Amazon MGM Studios / Lord Miller Productions

Acclaimed comedic filmmaking duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller adapt The Martian author and scientist Andy Weir's other grounded science-fiction astronaut novel, Project Hail Mary. "Just Ken" himself, actor/producer Ryan Gosling, stars in the impressive, almost-solo film about a mild-mannered but brilliant high school science teacher who is reluctantly sent into outer space and forced to save the universe in a last-ditch effort to prevent our dying sun from ending life as we know it.

REEL | Busting 'Ghost World' – A Sad Alt-Comic Book Brought to Life

"You guys up for some reggae tonight?"

United Artists / Granada Film

Before the twenty-fifth anniversary of its theatrical release, it's a fine time to revisit the first-ever film based on a graphic novel to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2001, Ghost World translated famed Eightball cartoonist Daniel Clowes' offbeat yet grounded, cult classic alt-comic book (1989-2003) of the same name into live-action, offering a wholly bleak yet highly comedic slice of life, not dissimilar to American Splendor.

GENRE | Jessie Buckley Reinvigorates the Motherf—king 'The Bride!'

"There is a whole garden of pleasures I have not had."

Warner Bros. Pictures

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal directs the wildly audacious, gothic reimagining, The Bride! (note the exclamation point), starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as the monstrous couple, inspired by the iconic 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein. Her messy gangster crime take on Mary Shelley's original 1818 literary tale relocates the action to 1936 Chicago, as Frankenstein's monster (called just "Frank" here) begs for a suitable female companion be created for him by reviving a recent murder victim.

REEL | Chucking 'Hoppers' – Pixar Saves the Talking Animal Kingdom

"Cancel your dumb highway!"

Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Animation Studios

Pixar Animation immerses audiences in the delicate yet comedic balance between the animal kingdom and human interference in its delightfully wacky adventure comedy, Hoppers. Directed by longtime animator and storyboard artist Daniel Chong, the lovely Piper Curda voices Mabel, a defiant Japanese-American student activist hoping to preserve the natural ecosystem in the local forest glade behind her grandmother's house in the city of Beaverton.

SPOTLIGHT | Maddy Kelly Live x Just For Laughs x Fox Cabaret

"Consent is not a big part of tickling, historically."

His Parents Never Taught Him

Mount Pleasant—(February 18, 2026) Vancouver's very own Maddy Kelly, the now New York City-transplanted stand-up comedian, came back to town for another reliably sharp stage performance. Her latest set of jokes mostly delighted the familiar hometown crowd inside the Fox Cabaret music venue located at the nexus of Main Street and Kingsway as part of the city's annual eleven-day Just for Laughs Vancouver comedy festival.

SCREEN | Ballet 'Dreams' – Jessica Chastain Crosses Borders

"I'll never abandon you."

Greenwich Entertainment / Vortex Media

Actress/producer Jessica Chastain and Mexican writer/director Michel Franco reteam for their harsh but erotic drama of romantic obsession, simply titled Dreams. Chastain, controlled as ever, plays a wealthy San Francisco philanthropist who becomes obsessed with a much younger Mexican ballet dancer played by accomplished newcomer Isaac Hernández, whom she convinces to come and stay in the U.S. illegally as a means of control.

GENRE | Glen Powell Teaches Himself 'How to Make a Killing'

"Call me when you've killed them all."

StudioCanal / VVS Films

The handsome Glen Powell stars in writer/director John Patton Ford's delightfully twisted black comedy thriller, How to Make a Killing. Powell stars as Becket, the son of a disowned billionaire scion outcast of the Redfellows of Huntington, New York, who devises a plan to murder his estranged family members in order to inherit their multi-billion-dollar family fortune.

GENRE | Sam Rockwell Terminates 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die'

"I am from the future and all of this goes horribly wrong!"

Briarcliff Entertainment / Constantin Film

After nearly a decade in director's jail, blockbuster filmmaker Gore Verbinski returns with his wacky sci-fi adventure, the bombastic but retro-futuristic Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. Starring Sam Rockwell as an unhoused-looking time-traveller from the future, who arrives suddenly in a Los Angeles diner, trying to prevent a rogue A.I. apocalypse from destroying the world—think Terminator meets Everything Everywhere All at Once.