Arts

Zombieland
Ruben Fleischer
Columbia Pictures

Zombieland, a take-off on the revived zombie subgenre, has plenty of guts and gore.

But, Ruben Fleischer’s directorial debut is too glorified with itself for us to take it seriously.

It’s a movie that hopes we’ll love it for its wild (and awfully bloody) visual flair and cheeky sense of fun.

But take away that flashy amusement and we’re left with a script as lazy in its storytelling as the zombies are in their movement.

About 300 family, friends and followers of the late Ottawa-based independent filmmaker Frank Cole, who was murdered during his second voyage across the Sahara Desert in 2000, packed an auditorium at Library and Archives Canada on Saturday, Oct. 3 to celebrate the launch of a book and an award-winning documentary about the career of the enigmatic artist.

Book: The Death of Bunny Munro
Author: Nick Cave
Published by: Harper Collins (2009)
Rating: 2.5/5

It is fitting that The Death of Bunny Munro, the first novel in 20 years by Australian post-punk musician and writer Nick Cave, wades through its protagonist’s tectonic downfall in a winding river of obscenity.

In 2005, when Ottawa musician Ana Miura’s friend’s mother died of breast cancer, she said to herself, “I’ve got to do something.”

Miura founded Babes for Breasts to benefit the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation in 2003. It began as a single solo concert and has grown into a nation-wide tour with women across the country.

Last Friday Tara Holloway, Amanda Rheaume, Jill Zmud and Miura performed at the Library and Archives Canada.