Local Entertainment

As a director, Martin Scorsese is pretty familiar with the seedy and sordid side of life, and all the players involved. He has offered up psychological crime dramas all up and down the map, mostly dealing with gangsters.

Any woman involved in a love triangle encounters a great deal of frustration. Competing with another person is tough. But when the third party is a lover’s obsessive dalliance with movies, the romance is a train wreck waiting to happen.

Edmonton chemist and animator John Osborne teams up with the innovative Boreal Electro-Acoustic Music Society (BEAMS) Orchestra for an exciting evening of animated films and music manipulation at the Garneau Theatre.

If you were to hear the name Lhasa de Sela, would it ring a bell? No? Well then you would be in the majority.

From ancient Japan's most enduring tale, the epic 3D fantasy-adventure 47 Ronin is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the leader of 47 outcast samurai.

This Saturday and Sunday, a plundering horde of mead-swigging Viking sea raiders will overrun the seventh annual Deep Freeze Festival. Yes, this year the theme is Vikings and curiosity is at an all-time high.

The dimwit is one of those contemporary classic American characters like Homer Simpson or Fred Flintstone or Al Bundy or Archie Bunker or Peter Griffin.

Renowned for excavating experimental and lesser-known works from the musical theatre catalogue and reshaping them into award-winning Fringe productions, Plain Jane Theatre launches a new event.

There is a real source of pride among local Ukrainians that composer Peter Tchaikovsky’s bloodline extended straight to Ukraine.

Does impending fatherhood make some men quake in their boots? Becoming a father may not have turned standup comedian Chris Gibbs into a mass of quivering jelly, but it gave him pause for thought – a lot of thought.