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Brand new, European-style bistro Violeté Kitchen 🍕 opens on Commercial Drive
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about 1 month ago
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about 16 hours ago
#Obsession
wishes for a diabolically simple yet supremely unhinged supernatural horror romance 🥀 at
@siffnews.bsky.social
bit.ly/ob-session
#SIFF2026
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GENRE | 'Obsession' Makes One Wish Willow x SIFF 2026
Obsession Movie Review
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'Hulk Hogan: Real American' glosses over 🤼♂️ the deeply flawed pro wrestling legend's sordid life
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Hulk Hogan: Real American (prod. Bryan Storkel). Netflix and WWE's superficial four-part docuseries largely glosses over the most shameful elements of Terry Bollea's sordid life outside of...
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about 23 hours ago
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#ILoveBoosters
shoplifts
@bootsriley.bsky.social
's radically anti-capitalist heist comedy screed advocating for workers' rights 🛍️ at
#SIFF2026
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GENRE | Keke Palmer Shoplifts 'I Love Boosters' x SIFF 2026
I Love Boosters Movie Review
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'The Wizard of the Kremlin' rewrites post-Soviet Russian history 🇷🇺 as a highly westernized political satire
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The Wizard of the Kremlin (Le Mage du Kremlin, dir. Olivier Assayas). Jude Law and Paul Dano star in a fictionalized, English-language political satire of post-Soviet Russian power as a young Vladimir...
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2 days ago
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#Myspace
revisits our millennial nostalgia for the novelty of social networking 🖱️ at
@hotdocs.bsky.social
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Myspace (dir. Tommy Avallone) x Hot Docs 2026. Cut to the mid-2000s, this nostalgic documentary retraces millennial youth culture at the birth of social media and user-generated content before those.....
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3 days ago
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#TimeAndWater
documentary explores melting glaciers through Icelandic author
@andrimagnason.bsky.social
's family ties 🏔️ at
@hotdocs.bsky.social
bit.ly/4dazyzL
#HotDocs2026
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SCREEN | Glaciers and Memories – 'Time and Water' x DOXA 2026
Time and Water Documentary Review
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Calafuria rosé wine relaunch 🍷 atop the Gallery by Pavilion's rooftop terrace
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7 days ago
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#MortalKombatII
finishes off a dizzying but non-stop series 🥷 of ultraviolent tournament battles
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Mortal Kombat II (dir. Simon McQuoid). MKII deliberately levels up its ultraviolent 1-on-1 battle action as essentially an extended series of tournament fights with a limited amount of outside...
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8 days ago
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Heading to
@campbellriver.ca
from
@nanaimo.ca
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@bcferries.bsky.social
bit.ly/vanisl
#VanIsland
8 days ago
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'There Are No Words' tries to remember a mother's past 🇰🇷 at
#DOXA2026
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There Are No Words (dir. Min Sook Lee) x DOXA 2026. Lee turns the focus on herself as she searches for memories of her mother, who took her own life when the filmmaker was only twelve. She confronts.....
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9 days ago
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#OurOceanTable
hosted by Sonya Lee and
@hannahsung.bsky.social
🦐 tables Korean food culture to ocean conservation
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Our Ocean Table (prod. Sonya Lee). Telus' three-episode docuseries follows Korean-Canadian friends, journalist Hannah Sung and Lee herself, on a tour across Western Canada to learn more about ocean...
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10 days ago
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#TheSandbox
surveils the harsh truths of our migration border crisis 🏜️ at
@hotdocs.bsky.social
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#HotDocs2026
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The Sandbox (dir. Kenya-Jade Pinto) x DOXA 2026. There's an underlying menacing tone to the methodical documentary that explores the destructive power of militaristic technology. It broadly treats...
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11 days ago
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Copperpenny Distilling's ember smoked gin launch 🍶 in
#NorthVan
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12 days ago
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'Concrete Turned to Sand' poignantly traces the current climate realities of oyster farming on
#CortesIsland
🦪 at
@hotdocs.bsky.social
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Concrete Turned to Sand (dirs. Jessica Johnson & Ryan Ermacora) x DOXA 2026. The B.C. documentary traces the current realities of oyster farming on Cortes Island, experiencing the negative effects of....
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13 days ago
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'In Tyee Country' hopes for a sustainable future for its
#CampbellRiver
salmon fishing club and way of life 🎣 at
@hotdocs.bsky.social
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In Tyee Country (dirs. Jevan Crittenden & Nate Slaco) x DOXA 2026. In the B.C. town of Campbell River, the self-proclaimed "salmon capital of the world," the exclusive Tyee Club's fisherman members...
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14 days ago
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'In Tyee Country' hopes for a sustainable future for its
#CampbellRiver
salmon fishing club and way of life 🎣 at
@hotdocs.bsky.social
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#HotDocs2026
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In Tyee Country (dirs. Jevan Crittenden & Nate Slaco) x DOXA 2026. In the B.C. town of Campbell River, the self-proclaimed "salmon capital of the world," the exclusive Tyee Club's fisherman members...
https://bit.ly/42bx5P7
14 days ago
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15 days ago
#TheDevilWearsPrada2
stylishly but disposably reassembles another amusing bad boss workplace comedy 👠 set in the once-glamorous fashion print world
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REEL | Anne Hathaway Saves 'The Devil Wears Prada 2'
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Review
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Did you know 'Everyone is Lying to You for Money'? 🪙
#TheOC
heartthrob
@benmckenzie.bsky.social
investigates mass crypto fraud
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Everyone is Lying to You for Money (dir. Ben McKenzie). McKenzie, the heartthrob Ryan from The O.C., takes a career detour into exposing the scammer financial marketplace of cryptocurrency, focused...
https://bit.ly/eiltyfm
16 days ago
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NFB's
#SaigonStory
documentary investigates old wounds from an iconic Vietnam War photograph 🇻🇳 at
@hotdocs.bsky.social
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Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom (dir. Kim Nguyen) x DOXA 2026. NFB's Vietnam War documentary recounts the brutal scars left by the family of a Washington woman as she tries to solve....
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16 days ago
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Jury Duty Presents:
#CompanyRetreat
tricks another good guy 🌶️ into some wholesome hoax reality series hijinks
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Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (prods. Cody Heller). Season two of Prime's hoax reality series transplants events to a fake hot sauce company's annual retreat, with an unsuspecting temporary...
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23 days ago
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Italian-inspired apertivo hour at Carlino Restaurant 🍸 at the Hyatt Vancouver Downtown Alberni
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25 days ago
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#Erupjca
co-starring
@charlixcxofficial.bsky.social
erupts some casually breezy Warsaw hangout vibes 🌋 at
@sxsw.com
bit.ly/4mImWTt
#SXSW2026
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Erupcja (dir. Pete Ohs) x SXSW 2026. Charli XCX stars in the loosely-scripted Polish film, where each person is the main character of their own slice of the 72-minute story. Set in Warsaw, we follow.....
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25 days ago
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#Lorne
glossily documents a digestible history of 'Saturday Night Live' 🍿 and its unknowable creator
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#SNL
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Lorne (dir. Morgan Neville). It's a pretty unabashedly vanity-style documentary that fleshes out the myth of Saturday Night Live creator and producer Lorne Michaels. There are few revelations or...
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28 days ago
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29 days ago
#BeefNetflix
season two searingly escalates its country club class conflict ⛳️ across three generations
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CABLE | Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan Start A 'Beef' – Netflix Season 2
Beef Netflix Season 2 TV Review
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Florida detective series
#RJDecker
solves its sordid weekly cases 🌇 with a sunny but seedy bent
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R.J. Decker (prod. Robert Doherty). ABC's breezy case-of-the-week police/P.I. crime procedural offers some familiar storylines in its South Florida setting. Loosely inspired by the Carl Hiaasen novel....
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30 days ago
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about 1 month ago
#MargosGotMoneyTroubles
stars a magnetic Elle Fanning as a college dropout turned single-mother sex worker 🤼♂️ in a romp of a family dramedy series
bit.ly/margos
#SXSW2026
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CABLE | 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' Makes Fans x SXSW 2026
Margo's Got Money Troubles TV Review
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#AgathasAlmanac
lives a peaceful yet meaningfully simple existence on a rural Manitoba farm 🍉 at
@viffest.bsky.social
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Agatha's Almanac (dir. Amalie Atkins). Atkins films her fiercely independent ninety-year-old aunt, Agatha Bock, living a quietly meaningful life on a 54-acre rural Manitoba ancestral farm over the...
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about 1 month ago
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#Rooster
studies the comically messy interpersonal lives 📚 of a liberal arts college's staff and its student body
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Rooster (prods. Bill Lawrence & Matt Tarses). HBO's liberal arts college campus comedy starring Steve Carell as a pulp fiction author and visiting lecturer mines the interpersonal relationships of its...
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about 1 month ago
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'Life's Still Unfair' in the middling but comforting
#MalcomInTheMiddle
sitcom revival 🥳 twenty years later
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Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair (prod. Linwood Boomer). Hulu's middling but oddly comforting four-episode revival of the influential 2000s Fox sitcom economically catches us up with the...
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about 1 month ago
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#Exit8
loops an endless corridor of Japanese psychological horror adapted from the video game 🚇 at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
bit.ly/4snrsYy
#TIFF50
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Exit 8 (dir. Genki Kawamura) x TIFF 2025. Toho's clever adaptation of the 2023 Japanese indie video game uses its repeating subway station "level" as the premise for its mind-bending psychological...
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about 1 month ago
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Brand new, European-style bistro Violeté Kitchen 🍕 opens on Commercial Drive
bit.ly/vio-lete
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
#MaulShadowLord
betrays the tragic
#StarWars
figure 🥷 back into animation as grim pulp noir
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CABLE | Betraying 'Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord' into Animation
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord TV Review
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about 1 month ago
#MaulShadowLord
betrays the tragic
#StarWars
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CABLE | Betraying 'Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord' into Animation
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord TV Review
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British-Pakistani star Riz Ahmed leads a fine contemporary South Asian retelling of
#Hamlet
👑 at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
bit.ly/4mbtJEQ
#TIFF50
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Hamlet (dir. Aneil Karia) x TIFF 2025. British-Pakistani star Riz Ahmed leads the contemporary South Asian retelling of Shakespeare's masterpiece. It's another worthy but ultimately standard...
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about 1 month ago
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Hong Sang-soo's 'What Does That Nature Say to You' meets the parents in another low-key humanist Korean drama 🇰🇷 at
@thecinematheque.bsky.social
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What Does That Nature Say to You (Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani, dir. Hong Sang-soo) x VIFF 2025. Hong's latest lo-fi feature resembles Meet the Parents in its basic plot as the productive South...
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
#TheDrama
starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson 💒 makes a meal out of its twisted pre-wedding romance
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about 1 month ago
Let's revisit Michael Mann's misunderstood undercover cop neo-noir
#MiamiVice
🚤 after 20 years
bit.ly/miavice
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#SuperMarioGalaxyMovie
rescues a colourful but low-energy animated sequel 🍄 of a thin video game mission
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (dirs. Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic). Loosely inspired by the 2007 Wii video game of the same name, the Nintendo/Illumination animated sequel takes a fairly hollow...
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about 1 month ago
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#TheChristophers
paints a dramatic portrait of a true artist's work and its perceived value 🎨 at
@tiffnet.bsky.social
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The Christophers (dir. Steven Soderbergh) x TIFF 2025. Set in the London art world, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel star as a once-renowned but now disgraced painter and the art restorer hired by the.....
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
#FantasyLife
babysits typical Jewish-American anxieties 🛋️ in a charming age-gap comedy
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SCREEN | Amanda Peet Babysits A 'Fantasy Life' of Anxieties
Fantasy Life Movie Review
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#ForWorse
tries to keep up with the younger generation 🤵♂️ in a loose divorce comedy
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For Worse (dir. Amy Landecker). Landecker directs her real-life husband, Bradley Whitford, both playing later-in-life divorcées, as their characters struggle to find romantic fulfillment beyond middle...
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about 2 months ago
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Buck fifty a shuck happy hour from Coast Restaurant 🦪 in
@downtownvan.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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#DTFStLouis
untangles a very sordid but suburban love triangle 🚴♂️ in middle America
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DTF St. Louis (prod. Steven Conrad). HBO's offbeat dark comedy miniseries about middle-aged, suburban malaise between two entangled co-workers (Jason Bateman and David Harbour) and one of their wives...
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
'Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice' fixes the future in an entertaining time-travel action-comedy 🐈 at
@sxsw.com
bit.ly/mikenick
#SXSW2026
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SCREEN | 'Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice' Fixes the Future x SXSW 2026
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice Movie Review
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about 2 months ago
Mitch and Murray's powerful solo stage performance 'Harm' 🐰 explores our toxic parasocial obsessions
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SCENE | Mitch and Murray and Kelli Ogmundson Do No 'Harm'
Mitch and Murray Harm Vancouver
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#LesMisérables
brings its epic 19th century French musical of mercy and redemption 🇫🇷 to QE Theatre
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#LesMiz
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Les Misérables x Queen Elizabeth Theatre x Downtown. (via Matthew Murphy) Broadway Across Canada brings the touring production of the famed 19th century French literary musical to Vancouver. Its epic....
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about 2 months ago
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Rose Byrne elevates
#TowMovie's
real-life drama 🚙 about an unhoused Seattle woman's legal battle against injustice
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Tow (dir. Stephanie Laing). Rose Byrne stars in the real-life, social justice dramedy about an unhoused Seattle woman's quest against a towing company's malicious practices after her 1991 Toyota...
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about 2 months ago
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"Best Achievement" 🦅
#Oscars
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2 months ago
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Best Animated Feature
@sonyanimation.bsky.social
@netflix.com
🇰🇷
#Oscars
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2 months ago
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