The perfect pint Getting tired of the usual fare? That’s why we’ve headed off to find the perfect pint. And, thankfully, Halifax has a lot to offer. With an impressive selection of microbreweries and brewpubs, it’s not hard to find a great mug of grog in this city. Check out these places for genuinely tasty […]
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Broken Embraces
Broken Embraces is more subtle and less flamboyant than most of Almodovar’s recent films. Compared to the cinematic theatrics of Bad Education and Talk to Her, Broken Embraces is a far quieter experience. But it gets under your skin, as Almodovar tends to do, and creeps with a chill that leaves you disturbed and unsure […]
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Dillinger is Dead
Criterion Collection is the shit. We all know it. They consistently re-release films everybody should know about but nobody does. Case in point: the 1969 Italian film Dillinger is Dead (Dillinger è morto). It’s a bizarre film, without a whole lot of plot, full of rambling scenes that seem to go on forever. That said, […]
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The Damned United
Oi, oi. In England, football (soccer, that is) is religion. It’s like hockey here, only times 100. Part of its popularity is that even the smallest team has the chance to become the best in England. The Damned United is about manager Brian Clough’s (Michael Sheen, Frost/Nixon) mission to become the UK’s best and dethrone […]
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Gentlemen Broncos
I don’t get Jared Hess. His movies are not funny. They are as dull and lifeless as his characters, and seem to have only one joke spread throughout all three of them. After Napoleon Dynamite, Hess has been struggling to match its unwarranted success. Nacho Libre was horribly unfunny and his new film, Gentlemen Broncos, […]
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Black Dynamite
If I could write a one-word review of Black Dynamite it would be: “Awesome.” Or maybe “righteous” would be better. It is quite simply funny, silly, stylish and enjoyable. You could also describe it as gloriously ridiculous—what Sanders has done is assembled all the best parts of 1970s Blaxploitation B-movies and taken them to absolute […]
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We Live in Public
The 1990s were a strange time, kids. People were dying the tips of their hair platinum, Y2K was looming and everybody was trying to figure out what to do with this thing called “the internet.” We Live in Public is about Josh Harris, who pioneered various websites and art projects, was rich and sort-of famous […]
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Love Happens
Love Happens means well and tries so hard that you can’t help but feel a little sorry for it as it falls completely flat. Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) is a celebrity grief self-help guru who maybe isn’t as all-knowing as he projects. Something is eating away at him until he becomes involved with the quirky […]
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Little Ashes
Little Ashes follows the college years of Salvador Dali (Robert Pattison), filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty) and poet Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán), particularly the romantic and tumultuous relationship between Dali and Lorca. Considering the supposedly outrageous and shocking artists the film is about, Little Ashes is terribly dull and straightforward. The story is told […]
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The Boys Are Back
The Boys Are Back is set in Australia and stars Clive Owen as a father of two who has just lost his wife to cancer. He’s a sports reporter, a bit of a free spirit with no idea how to single-handedly raise the boys. The opening passages are very touching and pack a lot of […]
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
This film has kind of a tough sell and almost pulls it off. It’s about a Northern Irish man (Jim Sturgess) working for the English as their snitch in the IRA. He tells them when bombs are going to go off, assassinations are going to happen, who’s who and what’s what. The story is a […]
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Departures
So you need a job and you aren’t sure what you want to do. You find this help-wanted ad for a company that deals in “departures.” Sounds OK, right? Only it turns out that by “departures” they mean preparing dead bodies for burial, a ritual that is essential to perform, but shameful to be the […]