I love a good David Mamet movie. His dialogue and plot twists are always top-notch, putting his signature speech patterns on every character he writes. Witness The Untouchables or Glengarry GlenRoss or The Spanish Prisoner, movies with plots that are not dumbed down for a mass audience. They're full of smart, intellectual characters who speak in rhythms and puzzles, pushing the viewer to use their brain rather than give standard expository dialogue to move the story along and make it easier for a wide audience to digest. Luckily for us, his new film Redbelt opens this week. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a martial-arts instructor who gets forced into participating in a prize bout against his will through a series of typically shady Mamet-esque circumstances. Featuring a supporting cast that includes Joe Mantegna, Emily Mortimer, Ricky Jay and Tim Allen (!) as a washed-up actor, Redbelt has been getting slightly mixed reviews, but for Mamet fans, like myself, that won't stop us from going to see it first weekend.

Ashton Kutcher returns to give more reasons for an assassination attempt in his new film What Happens In Vegas..., starring with his female equivalent Cameron Diaz. It's about two predictably zany people who get drunk and wake up to find out they got married. My question is didn't this already happen in an episode of Friends? I hate to defend that show but you know generic Hollywood comedies are running low on ideas when they start ripping off a 10-year-old episode of Friends.

Two high-concept comedies open this weekend, the first has Tina Fey making her leading lady debut in Baby Mama, starring as a businesswoman who, when discovering she is infertile, hooks up with a trailer trash-type surrogate mom, Amy Poehler, in order to have her baby. Co-Starring Greg Kinnear, Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin, it's been getting mixed reviews but fans of Fey and Poehler's work on 30 Rock and SNL should enjoy it nonetheless.

The other big comedy is the sequel to one of the biggest stoner comedies ever, Harold & Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Kal Penn and John Cho return in the title roles, this time running from government agents after trying to sneak a bong onboard their flight to Amsterdam. Neil Patrick Harris returns as himself and former Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry makes an appearance. It's been said that if you enjoyed the first movie, there would be no reason not to enjoy this one.

I will go right out and say it: Dan Snaith is a genius. There are few musicians in the world who have perfected psychedelic pop the way he has and when he brought his show to The Biltmore on Friday night he fully illustrated that point. He and his three band members crowded the small Biltmore stage and played the mind-blowing music they've now become known for. With their catchy, progressive melodies and high-energy performance, Caribou were a sight to behold.

Coming off what I consider to be one of the top 3 best albums of last year, Andorra, and a wave of buzz which has rode them around the world, Caribou came into Vancouver with an understandable amount of expectation. For myself, as well. I saw them last time they played at Richard's in October and that show was truly one of the best I've ever seen, so my hopes were quite high. Were they as good as last time? The answer is almost. If the last show was a 10, then this would be a 9. Still very high! Maybe the whole "first time seeing them" aspect played a role in the Richard's show.

If you're a big Freaks And Geeks fan like myself, you might be interested in this weekend's new film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which F&G vet Jason Segel wrote and stars in, along with Kristen Bell, Jonah Hill and Paul Rudd. Produced by Judd Apatow, Forgetting Sarah Marshall tells the tale of a man who devastation after a messy break-up leads him to a tropical resort, only to find his ex and her new beau are staying at the same place. It's been netting surprisingly good reviews and if you like Jason Segel it's pretty much a no-brainer.

Opening in Vancouver this week is Smart People, starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church and, Juno herself, Ellen Page. If an actor grows a beard and wears a brown sport coat, a la Robin Williams, they must be portraying someone in a respectable profession playing against type and, coincidentally, Quaid plays a widowed professor who falls for one of his former students, played by Parker. Church plays an art house goofball, just like the one in Sideways, and Page plays a sassy, ahead-of-her-years teenager, just the like the one in Juno, but you know the old saying, if it worked once...

It's a season that ends with far more intrigue than it started with. The news that the Vancouver Canucks will not be making the post-season this year is settling in slowly, but is still very hard to stomach for a city full of rabid hockey fans. Who is to blame for what happened? Nonis? Vigneault? Naslund? The Sedins? Or (gasp!) Luongo? Who was supposed to step up and change the course of a distastrous month of March filled with missed opportunities? It's a question that hockey fans will undoubtedly be asking for the rest of the summer, through the course of which will see some big changes on the payroll and, possibly, two of our most popular players ever to put on the uniform leaving town for good.