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Top 5 things to do this Friday in Vancouver

April 17, 2015

See “the most dangerous film ever made": While normal movies featuring animals tend to end with the American Humane Association's reassurance that no animals were injured or killed while making it, the 1981 cult classic Roar, which screens tonight at the Rio Theatre, includes the caveat 70 cast and crew members actually were. This mad masterpiece to man’s folly focusses on 10 years in the life of The Exorcist producer Noel Marshall, his wife Tippi Hendren’s and their young daughter (Melanie Griffith!) insanely spent living with more than 100 deadly  jungle cats.

 

Get cheering: While the Canucks have now lost seven playoff games in a row on home ice since Game 5 of their doomed series against the Bruins, surely this means they are due for a win. The puck drops at 7 p.m. for the second game of the team’s opening series against the Calgary Flames.

Get zooming: Israeli trance duo Infected Mushroom spring up onstage at the Commodore tonight in support of new album Friends on Mushrooms.

 

Get laughing: Proudly politically incorrect comedian Bobby Slayton brings his angry, fast-talking Jewish guy shtick to Comedy MIX tonight and tomorrow.

 

Get lordly: Los Angeles indie folksters Lord Huron play the Vogue tonight in support of new album Strange Trails. Cayucas open.

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