RICK CHUNG
@rickchung
arts & culture editor • creator @yvarcade.com
#Tony (the Chef the Book the Movie) bittersweetly tracks the myth of the traveller 🦞 as an angry young cook in 1975 Cape Cod bit.ly/bour-dain #TonyMovie
Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner purge an unusually authoritarian 🍕 Manhattan rom-com, but for #OneNightOnly bit.ly/ononly
Teenage Sex and Death at #CampMiasma revamps a sapphic but unabashedly queer slasher riff tribute 🏕️ at @fantasiafestival.com @riotheatre.bsky.social bit.ly/mias-ma #Fantasia2026
#LateFame rediscovers an unknown poet's forgotten works of faded artistic glory and literary obscurity 🌃 at @siffnews.bsky.social bit.ly/latefame #SIFF2026
#IWantYourSex dominates the carnally aggressive but kink-positive, erotic comedy about Gen Z's sexual hangups 🖼️ at @siffnews.bsky.social bit.ly/4bmgTzw #SIFF2026
#SpiderManBrandNewDay spins another highly emotional 🥷 but fairly grounded superhero romance bit.ly/smbnd
#TheDink aces @applefilms.bsky.social's underdog sports comedy 🎾 pitting tennis against pickleball bit.ly/the-dink
#MastersOfTheUniverse summons the power of a goofy but nostalgic 🌋 '80s-style #HeMan action figure fantasy adventure bit.ly/mast-ers #MOTU
Christopher Nolan conquers #TheOdyssey as both 🌊 a monumental and mythical blockbuster experience bit.ly/ody-ssey
Blown away by #TheOdyssey's technical scope and mythical storytelling ambition
#TheInvite throws a tense but crackling chamber-piece of a relationship dramedy for grown-ups 🫒 at @siffnews.bsky.social bit.ly/invi-te #SIFF2026
Time to revisit Richard Linklater's 1993 hangout masterpiece – still #DazedAndConfused after all these years 🏏 at @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/daze-d
#Supergirl misses as @dc.com's lively but grim superhero rescue mission 🐕 aimed at dark vengeance bit.ly/sup-ergirl
#WebSummitVancouver gathered a record 1,197 startups for another @websummit.bsky.social global tech conference 👨💻 inside @vanconventions.bsky.social bit.ly/websum-van
#TheDrama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson 💒 makes a meal out of its twisted pre-wedding romance bit.ly/the-drama
Let's revisit Michael Mann's misunderstood undercover cop neo-noir #MiamiVice 🚤 after 20 years bit.ly/miavice
Sipping wines of the world at the 47th annual #VanWineFest 🍇 inside Canada Place bit.ly/viwf26 #VIWF
Witness @projecthailmary.bsky.social projected on spectacular #IMAX 70mm film! 🎞️ #LangleyBC
Ryan Gosling saves the universe in #ProjectHailMary – a highly emotional 👨🚀 but intergalactic sci-fi adventure bit.ly/projhm
#GhostWorld, the indie film adaptation of Daniel Clowes' coming-of-age, alt-comic cult classic, 🖼️ remains pitch-perfect after 25 years bit.ly/ghost-w
#AvatarFireAndAsh is both a visually dazzling and relentless action spectacle 🏹 that's just as immersive as it is repetitive
Jessie Buckley during the final act 🎭 @focusfeatures.bsky.social #Hamnet
#WickedForGood defiantly yet fittingly concludes its two-part 🫧 blockbuster musical fantasy epic bit.ly/wickedfg
At the movies 🎬 for @viffest.bsky.social's 44th annual film festival yvar.ca/viff
'Sentimental Value' tells a melancholic but mesmerizing family history of emotional avoidance 🎭 at @tiffnet.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social bit.ly/sentvalue