Tara Thorne

Two weeks ago in this space, we made up a bunch of shit about a new funding body, a new repertory cinema and a new slate of local programming on the CBC. (It was the Fiction Issue, people. We thought we were being pretty outlandish, but some either missed it in an eggnog haze or […]

The biggest in dopeness this year is one of the tiniest adults we’ve ever met—Ellen Page, whose fierce performance in the uneasy two-hander Hard Candy won her raves all over North America, a feature in Premiere and the cover of The Coast. Hard Candy was supposed to beat X-Men 3, Page’s supposed big-time picture—check out […]

That choral swell you’ll hear this week will be more than just people finding gaming consoles under their trees—try hundreds of Nova Scotia artists celebrating the creation of Culture Nova Scotia, an arm’s-length arts council privately funded by an anonymous coalition of Nova Scotia-bred artists who may or may not live here. Almost $2 million—close […]

This has been a big week for Trailer Park Boys—it feels like we write that a lot—on both the critical and commercial sides. Along with Atlantic Film Festival entries Sharkwater, Away From Her, Congorama, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen and Manufactured Landscapes, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie has been named one of the top 10 […]

A cool theatrical production kicks off a week-long run this week at The Space (2353 Agricola) with a rendition of Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, starring local fave Christian Murray along with Pascale Roger-McKeever as a couple “obsessed with one another and haunted by the past.” (The film version was directed by the late […]

When life gives you hell, you make a film with it. Or at least that’s what Andrew Hines, best known as half of Halifax production team Urban Peace Divison, is doing with Silent Night, a 10-minute drama about his summer carjacking on Blowers Street. “It happened at the end of July,” says Hines over his […]

We’ve talked about Thom Fitzgerald’s 3 Needles a few times over the past year—when it screened at TIFF in 2005, when it screened at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2005, when co-star Lucy Liu had that art show here, when it had an expensive charity screening a couple months back—and yet the film still has […]

The second annual Halifax Student Film Festival drops on November 23 at Saint Mary’s University. Organized and hosted by SMU’s film society, the one-night event offers up as many films made by Halifax students as it can get, probably. “It was really long last year because we didn’t want to turn down any films,” says […]

The King’s Theatrical Society’s 2006 season kicks off with a bold choice in 20-year-old playwright Daniel Rosen’s Butterfly Farm, about two teens with mental illness, aided through it by their shared nurse. Herald has been “alienated by a corrupt, evil world,” while Melanie is the product of crappy parenting. Rosen’s been working on the play […]