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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (dir. Destin Daniel Cretton).

It's a fun, bright, shiny, and hopeful entry into Spider-Man's cinematic legacy.

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Supergirl (dir. Craig Gillespie).

There's a mishmash of [producer James] Gunn's trademark cinematic flavours, despite his status as only a producer, including several needle drops and some general misfit characterizations.

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Disclosure Day (dir. Steven Spielberg).

[It] explores a couple of extraordinary days leading up to humanity's sentimental reaction to the exposure that we are not alone and that extraterrestrial beings have existed on Earth in some form for nearly eight decades. 

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Project Hail Mary (dirs. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller).

Much of the film is a thoughtful mashup of elements from other notable sci-fi films, such as Arrival and Interstellar, with stark visuals inspired by the iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey and the sense of friendship from E.T.

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Neptune Seafood Restaurant x Richmond, BC.

Fenjiu's Chinese New Year baijiu dim sum tasting.

Whole crispy chicken, crab meat and fish maw soup, har gow shrimp dumplings, and signature chow mein fried noodles.

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2025 Vancouver Christmas Market x Jack Poole Plaza x Waterfront.

15th anniversary German-style holiday market ("Christkindlmarkt") open until Christmas Eve.

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Notch8 Restaurant x Fairmont Hotel Vancouver x Financial District.

Cherry blossom afternoon tea service available until May 25.

Classic and morello cherry scone with chantilly cream and strawberry jam.

Egg salad, beef menchi katsu sando, curry puff, Albacore tuna tataki, and salted cod inari.

Sakura matcha mousse cake, black sesame shortbread, miso caramel tart, and stawberry macaron.

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Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines x Vancouver Art Gallery x Downtown.

VAG's exhbition is the first solely dedicated to the rich five-decade history of artists' zines produced in North America since the 1970s—incuding from Vancouver's Western Front. Chart the self-expression of this underground art making across generations through the documentation of different subcultures from queer arts to feminist politics.

"Maggie TV": a single-channel video on clear Sony television, wire, epoxy-covered paper stars, beads, and mixed media by New York-based artist Maggie Lee (2017).

Collection on display until Sept. 22.