You may recall The Feed reporting that MODA Urban Dining (1518 Dresden Row, 405-3480) offers gourmet take-out lunches to people working off Spring Garden and looking for something particularly tasty. Well, now they have The Business Lunch, items that include tenderloin pasta, club sandwich and fries, risotto spheres and side salad, grilled veggies and shrimp, […]
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Eva Madden-Hagen’s new blog post
New in The Coast’s Work In Progress blog section is a post from Eva Madden-Hagen on her history with, and passion for, Super 8, and how that will impact her new project, Pose. Check it out here. Related Stories
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Winners of the 31st Atlantic Film Festival announced
Afghan Luke closed off the 31st Annual Atlantic Film Festival this evening at two sold-out screenings at Park Lane Cinemas. Director Mike Clattenburg, producers Mike Volpe and Barrie Dunn and writers Patrick Graham and Douglas Bell were all on hand to present the film. You can check out Matt Semansky’s review of the film here. […]
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Whit Stillman returns with Damsels in Distress
Another movie, another embargoed review. Sigh. So, I’ll try not to say too much about Damsels in Distress, the first new movie by American indie director Whit Stillman since The Last Days of Disco in 1998. I can tell you it stars Greta Gerwig as the alpha female Violet in a group of very entitled […]
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Gala shorts repeat this evening at 7pm
So much to enjoy in the Gala Atlantic Shorts program, showing tonight for a second time at 7pm at Park Lane. Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking at an NFB panel with Cory Bowles and Preston Hudson, the director and producer respectively of Heart of Rhyme, one of the best shorts of […]
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Cafe de Flore and Starbuck: A second opinion on the best of the fest
If you’ve been reading this blog through the week, you’ve heard the Coast contributors who’ve been attending the AFF complain (loudly) about the review embargo imposed upon us by the distributors, who are hoping to save reviews for when their films get a theatrical release. Well, both the movies I saw tonight, Cafe de flore […]
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William F. White brings Viral Vans to Halifax
William F. White (1096 Marginal Road, 450-1284), one of the key equipment suppliers to the film industry locally and across Canada, is celebrating this evening at a party at the Prince George Hotel the arrival of new production equipment to Halifax. The equipment is called Viral Vans, and here’s how WFW describes it: “Geared toward […]
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Who is Halifax’s biggest Boston Bruins fan?
Since Boston took the Stanley Cup in June, and this week is the long-awaited exhibition game against Montreal in Halifax, it’s time to find out whether David Hendsbee or Darren Fisher takes the prize. We’re impressed with Hendsbee’s wardrobe, but it’s hard not to be impressed that Fisher named his son Bruen in honour of the […]
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Pina and The Future
German filmmaker Wim Wenders doesn’t often show up on the lists of beloved auteurs these days, due to his recent career spotted with a few duds. That said, he’s earned some kudos for his documentaries, and with Pina in 3D, his achievement in this form won’t be denied. The film is a tribute to Pina […]
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Niche is the place to be today
More Atlantic Film Festival happenings today, and I’m right in the midst of it. At noon I am hosting a panel of filmmakers at Niche (1505 Barrington Street) featuring Cory Bowles and Preston Hudson (Heart of Rhyme) and Matt MacIsaac (Victim). We’ll be talking inspiration and process and short films in Nova Scotia. At 7pm […]
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Hit So Hard review
P. David Ebersole’s look at former Hole drummer Patty Schemel is a rough and ready rock doc, assembled in typical rockumentary fashion by including random, reminiscing talking heads, grainy footage from the mid-’90s grunge scene, all rooted in sad tales of drugs and excess. Though big props to Schemel for navigating her many substance addictions, […]
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Colour Me tells the story of black identity in suburban Ontario
Colour Me is a documentary about six kids in a Brampton, Ontario high school, all of whom identify as black. They’re interviewed by Anthony McLean, whose own mixed ethnicity made for struggles in his youth. He’s a motivational speaker, but also a high school dropout, struggling to make ends meet by working as a waiter […]