Arts

The “Zombie Girl” of the title – 12-year-old Emily Hagins – is not a blood-spewing freakazoid come to terrorize your local grocery store, eat your dog or stagger down your residential street, moaning dejectedly.

Instead, that’s what she sets out to have her characters do.

Because Emily is a director.

She’s also a script writer and editor for her first feature-length film, Pathogen, a zombie movie full of fake blood and pre-teens.

Ontario folk artist Jon Brooks is playing at the Blacksheep Inn on Sept. 24 (Photo Provided)

The National Arts Centre offers discounted tickets for students registered in the Live Rush program ( Photo: Amanda To )

Jim Dow’s empty baseball stadiums fill a new exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada ( Photo Provided )

9
Shane Acker
Focus Features

Like the doll-like creations that populate 9, animator Shane Acker’s directorial debut, the film is spectacularly and imaginatively designed, but also feels incomplete and emotionally stagnant.

Expanded from Acker’s Oscar-nominated animated short, 9 is a bold and ambitious first feature.