If you’re old enough, maybe you remember 1982’s The Thing, an icy little nightmare directed by horror master John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, a shaggy-haired, blue-eyed ’70s everyman who battles a terrifying threat from beyond. Set in a remote, Antarctic outpost, it mines a fear of emptiness and the dread of the unknown – all while riffing on the predictable plot lines of an “and-then-there-were-none” type thriller. It may have been set at the South Pole, but look closer: that’s really the wintry wilds of northwest B.C.!
Archive for July, 2009
Hollywood North…West?
Posted in British Columbia, Movies, music and pop culture, Northern British Columbia, tagged Antartica, Atlin, Getting Hyderized, Hyder Alaska, Kurt Russell, Mantracker, movies, Never Cry Wolf, Northern British Columbia, northwest B.C., Smithers, Stewart B.C., The Thing on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stuff to do: Sea-to-Sky/Whistler
Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, tagged Activities in Vancouver, B.C. travel, Highway 99, Life, Peak2Peak, Sea-to-sky country, Squamish, Stuff to do, summer fun ideas, tourism, Travel, Whistler, Whistler gondola on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More from my list of fun stuff to do in the Vancouver area. This installment looks at the Sea-to-Sky highway and the resort town of Whistler.
Stuff to do: Vancouver’s North Shore
Posted in British Columbia, Travel, Vancouver, tagged Activities in Vancouver, Best Place on Earth, family fun, hiking, Life, North Vancouver, Stuff to do, summer fun ideas, tourism, Travel, Vancouver, West Van Seawall, West Vancouver on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When you live in the “Best Place on Earth” (cough, cough), you’re surrounded by so many choices, in so many directions, it can be hard to think of something good to do. It seems you can never think of anything much beyond the totally obvious choices – walk the Stanley Park Seawall? Go to Chinatown? Hit the beach? Go for a hike? Grab a coffee? See a movie? Yawn. Add in traffic congestion and high parking price, it’s no wonder we end up sticking close to home. A list of ideas can help.
Movie magic to light up White Rock this summer
Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, Movies, music and pop culture, White Rock B.C., tagged Back to the Future, entertainment, film festivals, Great Outdoors Film Festival, Life, Mamma Mia!, Monsters vs Aliens, movies, Pixar, sing-along, summer, Travel, Up, White Rock on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Set your DeLorean to Nov. 5, 1955, and power up your flux capacitor with 1.21 gigawatts because White Rock is heading Back to the Future!
The 1985 comic blockbuster, starring Burnaby’s own Michael J. Fox as time traveling, electric guitar-wielding skateboard enthusiast Marty McFly, is one of four family-friendly films lighting up a giant movie screen [...]
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