Local Arts and Culture

British director Ken Loach is a master at putting out bleak, important cinema. He doesn't disappoint with his newest work called Sorry We Missed You, a look at how the gig economy does a major disservice to those who work in it, and their families. Don't expect a happy ending here.

Money Matters is a four-week evening workshop to help anyone and everyone increase their financial literacy skills so that they have better relationships with their bank accounts.

Marina Endicott's new novel takes a view of a morally dubious event that really happened. How would you feel if a relative of yours went on a trip and took a child? How would the child feel? Endicott will be in conversation with Jacqueline Baker during a special STARFest event on Friday.

No Woman Without. Period. is wrapping up its third annual month-long menstrual hygiene product drive this weekend with an outstanding total of 75,000 individual items collected at an estimated retail value of nearly $20,000.

Writer-director Michael Winterbottom hits the nail on the head with his new film Greed, featuring Steve Coogan as a billionaire business mogul whose every success in business is matched by a contrasting failure in his personality.

It's been much overlooked until now. Black history in Alberta is put in focus with a series of information panels put on extended display in the permanent exhibit space at the Musée Héritage Museum.

Disappearance at Clifton Hill is not a tourism ad for Niagara Falls, where the movie is set. A kidnapping is witnessed by a young girl who grows up broken because of it. Solving the crime might just be her salvation, but there's a lot of strings to tie together to do it in writer/director Albert Shin's masterful film.