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Screen saviours
ViewFinders attendees (and their parents), take note: this moviemaking business is a real, live career! Head to Park Lane at 6pm on April 20 for a screening of nine films by graduates of NSCAD’s film program. They include documentaries by Grant Bagnell (DOA: Depiction of Addiction) and Courtney O’Hearn (House of Blues); dramas from Cailin […]
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Come what Mays
For those who have picked up Sam Roberts’ latest, Chemical City, and haven’t read the liner notes yet, I’ll save you some work. Matt Mays appears on track five, “Uprising Down Under,” which he recorded with his buddy last year during Australia’s beautifully warm winter months. “I went to Australia and went surfing for a […]
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Watching and talking
Let us first do away with the term “chick flick.” Unless we are going to institute the term “dick flick” for every male-driven film that treats women as caricature—that would be most films, then—let us read no more of Peter Travers’ “chick flick hell.” The whole world is dick flick hell, dude. Find a new […]
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Scary Movie 4
The Scary Movie franchise provides the same service American fast food chains do for tourists in foreign countries—it’s not especially rewarding, but the menu is easy to interpret, and you get what you’re accustomed to. Only prior experience with this series makes it satisfactory that Scary Movie 4 is just reasonably OK. A full half […]
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Jon Epworth’s second act
Jon Epworth doesn’t want to talk about his alter egos. He’d rather not talk about his various musical incarnations or how he spreads himself perhaps a little too thin. By now, the concept’s boring. This is just his life. Epworth states it simply: “I do a lot of stuff.” But it’s a little hard to […]
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Midnight Massive
Break out the party hats, streamers and birthday cake: From modest beginnings to three-floor parties and jammed clubs, dance music fans will celebrate the 11th anniversary of Massive Productions, a local company that has been bringing top-name DJs to Halifax for over a decade. More than a birthday party, the show at Rain this Friday […]
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We’re watching
Upstart company Le Theatre de Boheme is close to a year old now, so they thought they’d celebrate the anniversary with an easy adaptation of 1984. “1984 doesn’t exactly fall into the mandate of the company,” says director David Connellan, laughing wearily on a break at the Khyber. “We’re more minimalist.” The production features more […]