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306 Hollywoodmakes it clear that it is neither a documentary about a famous person, nor one about anything even all that remarkable. In fact, the film revels in its everyday mundanity, for that is where life’s essence lies, and, in this case, where grandma’s heart still beats.  After death, the soul has 11 months to […]

Written and directed by Matthew McKenzie, Bearsis the story of a First Nations man intimately engaged with the mountains, the rivers, the animals, the fish, and the insects he encounters on a life-changing journey. This is multidisciplinary work, bringing together dance, electronic music, spoken word, and science. Bearsis little bit jarring at first, the mystery of […]

What could go wrong when an eccentric anthropologist and 11 men and women from vastly different backgrounds board a shoddy raft with nothing but wind and currents to propel them across the Atlantic Ocean? For Santiago Genovés—the Spanish maestro of one of the most unusual social experiments ever conducted—hopefully, a lot. Is war intrinsic human […]

In the summer of 1973, a convict, fresh off parole, entered one of Sweden’s largest banks and took four employees hostage for six days in a bungled robbery. Director Robert Budreau’s re-imagining of the infamous event casts Ethan Hawke as Lars Nystrom, a raucous walking American stereotype who marches into Kreditbanken like a hurricane of […]

Budding romance is a powerful drug. In the early moments of an intimate relationship, it’s all too common to get in over your head and ignore the red flags and oddities in exchange for human connection. Danish director Nicole N. Horanyi’s documentary The Stranger vividly explores the remarkable account of one such encounter with wildly unimaginable […]

It was a Monday night in Victoria and I was walking through the ghostly downtown streets wondering where the heck everybody was. Next thing I knew I was in the Royal Theatre, surrounded by the warmth of friends and families awaiting their island icons, Mother Mother, playing their first of two nights in town. The […]

If you thought Vancouver performers Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles were British after leaving last year’s performance of O Christmas Tea, you’re not alone. The stage actors—who go by the names James and Jamesy—grew up watching Monty Python, Mr. Bean, and other English shows that set the tone for their careers. Having just come from shows Off-Broadway, the […]

On Friday, November 30, the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) was officially accepted into the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), a national student organization based out of Ottawa.  CCSS external executive Fillette Umulisa and CCSS executive director Michel Turcotte attended CASA’s lobby week in Ottawa, during which a plenary took place where the CASA […]

While the last couple weeks have seen Victoria saturated with Christmas lights and holiday greetings, I usually don’t even start thinking about Christmas until after exams. However, that transition came a little early this year, as I went to see The Nutcracker at the Royal Theatre on Friday night. Despite the show being a joint […]

Alberta Conservative MP Kerry Diotte is taking legal action against The Gateway, the University of Alberta’s student newspaper, for alleged defamation; Diotte may seek up to $150,000 in damages, although the paper has retracted the statements in question. (To put that in perspective and as a reminder that student media operates on a shoestring, that’s […]