Carsten Knox

It’s the culmination of five years of hard work, of personal savings accounts emptied and credit cards dipped. So-called rational people might consider this kind of investment a risk worthwhile only for real estate, but thankfully there are guys like Chris Cuthbertson and Drew Hagen, guys who just want to make movies and are willing […]

“There’s no sacrifice too great for a chance at immortality,” growls Dixon Steele, the screenwriter suspected of murder in Nicholas Ray’s under-acknowledged classic In a Lonely Place. In this line, the character nails the ethos of the Los Angeles movie industry crime story, the Hollywood film noir, if you will. It’s a slippery, exclusive little […]

Producers of the internet-hyped Hollywood movie Snakes on a Plane must be rubbing their hands together. The arrest of 19 air bomb conspirators in the UK has renewed anxiety around air travel, and it’s not hard to imagine some fast-talking studio-head saying snakes are a metaphor for our fear of airborne terrorism. As if there […]

It isn’t a wild generalization to say that most people who get into filmmaking want to make a living doing it. It’s the result of a pervasive and populist medium of entertainment. This means understanding how to tell a story in projected light, but there are those who are able to look at unique elements […]

It’s typical of the shallower pools in Hollywood when almost every Toni Collette biography comes with an implied asterisk next to the critical kudos, remarking on the fact she doesn’t share the razor cheekbones of Australian leading ladies who’ve worked in American film, such as Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts. Well, screw the […]

Don’t mess with Amanda Kilcoyne. Young, beautiful and driven, she’s the daughter of the owner of the biggest construction company in Halifax, as well as its chief operating officer. She does what she likes. For example, she has a flagrant affair with a man weeks away from saying his vows to another woman (who happens […]

Andrew Hines and Alex van Helvoort live and breathe film, but they find time for other interests. They met at the water fountain at Armbrae Academy on Oxford Street when Hines was in Grade 11 and van Helvoort in Grade 8, and bonded over a shared enthusiasm for dirt biking, leading them to document it. […]

Dear Hollywood, I know we haven’t spoken in awhile. It isn’t because I don’t care about you anymore. I see you around. You’re hard to ignore, what with you being in every multiplex. I have seen your genre movies, the ones you made on a low budget. You’ve often allowed talented and hungry young directors […]

“My film is about how I put myself on display in strange ways.” Jeff Coll is explaining Me on Me, his new short film. It details his peculiar exhibitionist tendencies, and is one of 20 pictures to be shown at a June 1 end-of-school-year screening of work by students of the Nova Scotia Community College’s […]