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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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Those lucky enough to have tickets for the Victoria Whisky Festival will taste peat, earth, heath, heather, moor, fen, cedar and silage at the Hotel Grand Pacific. The festival, which opens today. . .

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Photo gallery: Push! How to load a helicopter into a giant Russian cargo plane

Times Colonist

A 20,000-pound helicopter, owned by VIH Aviation Group of Victoria, is loaded at the rear of a huge Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane at Victoria International Airport on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. The 46.6-metre-long cargo plane was hired by the government of Chile to deliver the Kamov Ka-32A11BC helicopter to Santiago, where it will be used to fight wildfires. The chopper will be fitted with long lines attached to buckets, allowing it to scoop up 5,000 litres of water at a time.

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Sweet Victoria: Kazakhstan team says thanks with video tribute

Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist

From Astana to Victoria, with love. The Kazakhstan junior hockey team has posted a YouTube tribute to the B.C. capital, which adopted the squad as underdog darlings of the IIHF 2019 world junior . . .

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Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

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