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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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Jack Knox: Prince Philip: Over the Malahat and into 70 years in the spotlight

Jack Knox / Times Colonist

Prince Philip, who died Friday, had several links to Vancouver Island. His friendship with North Saanich’s Campbell Stuart, a retired federal trade negotiator who had lost a leg in the Second . . .

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Teacher suspended for showing The Hobbit, To Kill a Mockingbird in class

Nicholas Johansen / Castanet

A Prince George elementary school teacher has been suspended for a single day for showing his Grade 6 and 7 students movies that were deemed not age appropriate, including The Hobbit and To Kill a . . .

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Young women fighting for change in how hospital's psychiatric emergency service is run

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

Advisory: This story mentions self-harm and suicide. Ella Hale and Emma Epp aren’t waiting for one of their friends to die. The two young women, who have struggled with mental health issues . . .

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Comment: There's good reason to be wary of travelling on a plane during a pandemic

Deb Pearce / .

A commentary by a former Times Colonist columnist. A friend once had me doubled over with laughter by describing airplanes as “petri dishes with wings.” Another, risking her car on Victoria’s . . .

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Nanaimo woman shot in face while trying to help friend in distress

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

A Nanaimo woman was shot in the face and hand early Saturday morning when she intervened with a friend in distress at her family home. Friends say Regina Hampson intervened when her roommate . . .

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Two Waters in Colwood is on the market to pay off $25.4 million in debt

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

The 26.5-acre Two Waters Colwood property is on the market to pay off a $25.4-million debt in a court-ordered sale. Colwood Mayor Rob Martin hopes a sale will finally lead to construction of . . .

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High prices for social housing defended by unlikely allies

Andrew Duffy / Times Colonist

The millions being spent during the pandemic by all levels of government to tackle the housing crisis is both money well spent and good value for taxpayers according to housing advocates and even . . .

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Woman pulls neighbour to safety after explosion: ‘Your mind says go, you go’

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

On Saturday afternoon, Suzanne Fortin heard “one hell of a boom” and rushed out of her home at the Duncan RV Park. “At first I thought it was a tree that fell on one of the units and then I saw . . .

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Pender Island couple only eating what they can grow and catch

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Stef Lowey would love a slice a pizza, but a seaweed salad with grated bull kelp, beets and carrots will have to do. Likewise for Chris Hall. A Starbucks would go down well right about now, but . . .

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Deaths of tiny songbirds linked to salmonella in feeders

Darron Kloster / Times Colonist

Tiny songbirds are dying on the south Island and other parts of the province from a salmonella outbreak linked to bird feeders and baths. Pine siskins, nomadic finches with pointed bills and . . .

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