Alison Gillmor

Do we really need to worry about work-life balance issues when it comes to hired assassins and deep-cover spies? Two recent streaming series, The Day of the Jackal (Paramount+) and Black Doves (Netflix), are asking us to do just that.

WHAT IT IS Domestic Frieze 03, a large-scale archival pigment print, is part of Franco-Manitoban artist Dominique Rey’s solo exhibition MOTHERGROUND, now on view at WAG-Qaumajuq. WHAT IT’S ABOUT SUP...

A new feature-length animated adventure starring the brilliant comic duo Wallace and Gromit has just arrived on Netflix, and it will have fans of previous W&G classics from British creator Nick Pa...

In this likable but somewhat scattered feature-film debut, Toronto-based filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço finds an improbable scripting partner in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, an early influence on the German Romantics.

Conclave is perfect Oscar-bait, a term when applied to Best Picture alluding to a subtle but immediately identifiable vibe. Oscar-bait films are almost always handsome, semi-historical, seriously worthy but fatally safe.

If you’re wondering about the current state of onscreen love, you might want to consider one of this year’s Valentine’s Day tie-ins. Heart Eyes is a “romantic slasher film” about a masked killer who t...

Opinion: A reality TV-like presidency, but with real-world consequences

‘Our time is mostly spent waiting,” explains quantitative ecologist Mansi Mungee, who is studying the distribution of hawk moths in the eastern Himalayas. “We wait for nightfall, and then for the arri...

WHAT IT IS: I’ve been thinking recently about Ivan Eyre’s North Watch, located on the plaza outside the Richardson Building near the corner of Portage and Main. That’s partly because, like many Winnip...

Cruise control locked in for the long run