Starting right from the title, there’s something very earnest about Beautiful Boy, the Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen’s adaptation of an addiction story based on memoirs by David Sheff and his son Nic. This is something we’ve seen over and over—it’s happening on a nearby screen in A Star is Born right now—but rarely do we get […]
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Film review: Bel Canto
Paul Weitz has led a curious career, with a huge hit right out of the gate in his 1999 directorial debut, American Pie: Though it had a smattering of heart, it mostly had pie-fucking and explaining what MILF meant. In the 20 years since, Weitz has returned to the comedy well a few times—the Chris […]
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KAMP’s survival songs
KAMP To November 11 Neptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$50 neptunetheatre.com “It blew my mind. I thought, ‘This is a musical begging to be written,’” says Garry Williams. Williams was visiting Sachsenhausen, a Nazi concentration camp north of Berlin. He learned the site had housed a sub-camp for homosexual men, “so they wouldn’t […]
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Sharkwater’s way
Sharkwater Extinction Opens Friday, October 19 Late in Sharkwater Extinction is a scene that has nothing to do with sharks, one you’ve known is coming the whole movie, that gives the title a sombre double meaning: The death of its director and star, Rob Stewart. Stewart’s debut documentary, 2006’s Sharkwater, was instrumental in the banning […]
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L’nuwesimk: El-noo-wee-simk: Speaking Indian
Exhibit 201 Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre 2158 Gottingen Street (6pm) Burying grounds at Sinnot Hill Park, 31 Windmill Road, Dartmouth (8pm) Granville Court, Granville at Duke Street (10pm) For their Nocturne piece L’nuwesimk, the artists Ursula Johnson and Angella Parsons are proposing something very small and incredibly wide at once: At three sites in Halifax […]
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Nocturne 2018: Free Consultations
Exhibit 115 Victoria Park, Spring Garden Road at South Park Street The team at Dramatic Changes wants to create art and community at the same time. “We’ve been getting together once a week for three months to discuss what support could look like,” says co-founder Ross Unger of the group’s Nocturne project, Free Consultations. “We […]
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The glow of Neon Dreams
Neon Dreams w/Jodi Guthro, Mitchell Bailey Friday, October 12, 9pm The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen Street $20 adv/$25 door sonicconcerts.com Neon Dreams is so committed to its social media game that someone follows the trio around solely for content creation. So it’s a bit perplexing to visit @neondreams right now—the Instagram account is down to […]
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Film review: Fahrenheit 11/9
If Michael Moore’s last film, Where to Invade Next, was possibly his most gimmicky (that is saying a lot), then Fahrenheit 11/9 sets him back somewhere he can be taken seriously again. A spiritual sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore’s condemnation of the Bush administration, 11/9 looks at how exactly America—and the rest of us—ended up […]
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The weekend warriors of The 48 Hour Film Project
48 Hour Film Project premiere Thursday, September 27, 6:30pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road $10 tickethalifax.com The character: Liam or Lily, professional musician. The prop: An alarm clock. The line: “What a small world!” Then: Pick one of two genres. Those were the restrictions placed on the 11 teams competing […]
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Fall Arts: Chasing Champions by Ship’s Company Theatre
Chasing Champions October 25-27, 8pm (Oct 27 2pm mat) Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street $30 ($10 students) ticketpro.ca The bar at the Lord Nelson is abuzz on a Friday afternoon caught between summer’s fading grasp and the Atlantic International Film Festival’s opening weekend frenzy. Jacob Sampson sits in a booth up top, away from the […]
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Fall Arts: Fem Fest
Fem Fest Saturday, September 22, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20 eventbrite.ca April marked the 100th anniversary of Nova Scotia women getting the vote—or at least most of them. “African Nova Scotians as well were given the right, but they had to be Commonwealth citizens and own property,” notes Kathy France. France […]
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Fall Arts: Jeremy Webb and Neptune Theatre
Jeremy Webb just crossed a year at the helm of Neptune Theatre: He received the nationally coveted job last August, helping to walk George Pothitos out—while also handing Eastern Front Theatre to Sam Rosenthal—and settling in on his own in January. “I’ve been in this community for 20 years—I moved here in ’98, I’ve worked […]
