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Victoria Film Festival: Curie biopic inspiring tale of tenacity

Michael D. Reid / Times Colonist

Times Colonist movie writer Michael D. Reid is covering the Victoria Film Festival, which ends today. Ratings are out of five stars. Go to ...

At the festival: Meet Victoria’s own scream queen

It wasn’t what Jessica McLeod had in mind when she took up acting, but she has often been told she has a future as a scream queen. “I’ve had a ...

Victoria Film Festival: Anti-war flick addresses dangers of nationalism

Considering the frightening state of affairs in President Donald Trump’s America these days, the chilling consequences of unbridled nationalism ...

Victoria Film Festival: Women's road trip defies clichés

There are sequences in Italian writer-director Paolo Virzi’s bittersweet comedy-drama that invite comparisons to Thelma and Louise and One Flew Over ...

Victoria Film Festival: BBC’s Theroux skewers Scientology

Times Colonist movie writer Michael D. Reid is covering the Victoria Film Festival, which continues until Feb. 12. Ratings are out of five stars. ...

Island’s Duane Howard proud of latest film

A person could be forgiven for assuming Duane Howard just can’t seem to get enough of the wintry conditions he endured while filming The Revenant in ...

Around Town: Film festival’s opening night

Although the first day of spring is still six weeks away, that didn’t stop cinephiles from prematurely getting into the spirit of the season during...

Victoria Film Festival: Prison life well captured

Times Colonist movie writer Michael D. Reid is covering the Victoria Film Festival, which continues until Feb. 12. Ratings are out of five stars. ...

Victoria Film Festival: Portrait of photographer and movie maker wears thin

Times Colonist movie writer Michael D. Reid is covering the Victoria Film Festival, which continues until Feb. 12. Ratings are out of five stars. ...

Victoria Film Festival reviews: Grisly fun with mom-to-be on a mission

Times Colonist movie writer Michael D. Reid is covering the Victoria Film Festival, which continues until Feb. 12. Go to timescolonist.com/VFF for ...

Victoria Film Festival: Meet the master of destruction

If you’re a moviemaker on a mission to blow up bridges and buildings, destroy roads or trash expensive automobiles, chances are you’ve worked with ...

McKellar adds voice to unity calls

When Don McKellar was cast in Window Horses, he didn’t anticipate how relevant Ann Marie Fleming’s acclaimed animated feature would ...

Oscar-nominated filmmaker invited

Kathy Kay isn’t betting money on it, but she’s holding onto a glimmer of hope that Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian filmmaker who faces being denied ...

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Spooked shopper tale turns out disappointing

Times Colonist movie writer Michael D. Reid is covering the Victoria Film Festival, which continues until Feb. 12. Go to timescolonist.com/VFF for ...

Weirdos

What: Weirdos Where: SilverCity When: Friday, 9 p.m.; Sun., 1 p.m. Rating: three and a half stars What’s not to love about Canuck hipster ...

Saint Amour

What: Saint Amour Where: Cineplex Odeon When: Friday, 9:45 p.m.; Sat., 2 p.m. Rating: two and a half stars The assumption that a film must ...

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New payment system rolling out in City of Victoria parkades

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

A new payment method rolling out across city-owned parkades that’s intended to cut down on clogged entrances and exits is also reducing the number of spots available for an hour of free parking. . . .

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With more impaired drivers than officers can handle, Victoria police shut roadblock down early

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

Victoria police shut down an impaired driving roadblock earlier than they wanted Sunday morning — they simply did not have enough personnel to handle the number of impaired drivers. The roadblock. . .

Homes

House Beautiful: Arbutus tree inspires contemporary Deep Cove home

Kim Pemberton / Times Colonist

A centuries-old arbutus tree was a source of inspiration for a contemporary-style Deep Cove home, whose owners aimed to keep as many trees as possible when preparing their one-acre forested lot for . . .

Local

Gulf Islands water taxi to launch in September, aims to include Sidney stop

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

A new water taxi service, designed to extend the tourism season on the Gulf Islands, is still a month away from launch, but the AquaLink is already in expansion mode as it intends to include a stop. . .

Sports

From a dark place to a shining Olympic moment: Rower opens up about battle with depression

Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist

Just 100 days before the Tokyo Olympics, Victoria rower Caileigh Filmer was in a dark place, unsure if she could even summon the will to pick up an oar. “I was very certain that was my last row,”. . .

Local

Victoria's higher levels of crime prompt renewed call for regional policing

Roxanne Egan-Elliott / Times Colonist

The release of statistics showing a relatively high volume and severity of crime in Victoria is sparking renewed calls for region-wide policing. The chief of the Victoria Police Department, the . . .

Local

'Not all pups need rescuing': Aquarium reports increase in 'human interference' with seal pups

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Wayne Hollohan watched a seal pup waste away on Sidney Island for about a week. Severely emaciated, it would lie on the beach and occasionally go out with the tide, only to return. The pup . . .

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One year later: Pender Island couple living off the land more than met the challenge

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Stef Lowey and Chris Hall will pop the cork on a bottle of champagne on Aug. 2 — at exactly 12:01 a.m. “It’s been sitting on our counter top all year staring at us,” Hall says with a laugh. It . . .

Islander

Invasion of the wall lizards: They are beyond eradication on Island

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

They are crawling all over Saanich and Victoria, in thick bunches on the Peninsula and in Langford. They’ve been spotted in Metchosin. There are large populations in Shawnigan Lake and Nanaimo and . . .

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The Times Colonist

Many British Columbians are looking for ways to help those affected by the wildfires in B.C.’s Interior. Here are a few options. United for B.C. fund The United Way is relaunching its United . . .

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