Lost at sea
Go figure, Shandi Mitchell’s open sea drama The Disappeared presented a few filming challenges.
By Katie Ingram
Starfish troopers: Seth Smith's Lowlife
The Dog Day frontman's debut feature film sinks into a chilly bog of slime, despair and addiction. Bring an Archie comic for later.
By Stephanie Johns
Bones unburied
Pro skateboarder, entrepreneur and filmmaker Stacy Peralta looks back at his old crew, the world’s most famous skateboard team, the Bones Brigade.
By Matthew Ritchie
Blackbird flies
Dark and occasionally harrowing, Jason Buxton’s Blackbird tells the story of a frustrated teen in an even more neurotic community.
By Carsten Knox
Great Danes
Carsten Knox explores the Scandinavian domination of this year’s Atlantic Film Festival and discovers why something’s awesome in the state of Denmark.
Must-see movies
Navigate the best of the fest with reviews you can use. We explore grimy drug films, salty dramas, heartwrenching documentaries and lots more.
By Jacob Boon, Jaime Forsythe, Carsten Knox, Simon Thibault and Molly Segal
Annual Atlantic Film Festival is not showing in any theaters in the area.
“I get to wake up and experience another day of life on this earth”
Nova Scotia now has almost no COVID rules, but masks are still mandatory in schools
We asked Coast readers how the pandemic changed their lives
No masks, no limits, no POV as Nova Scotia lifting all COVID restrictions March 21
A big shift in Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 strategy
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WARNING: disturbing video.Just days after the street check apology, @HfxRegPolice deployed a taser on an unarmed black man on Quinpool Rd.Im told there was an altercation between him and construction workers before police arrived. Video not mine, sent to me by a bystander pic.twitter.com/xP95ZTziGR— Julia-Simone Rutgers (@jsrutgers) December 4, 2019
WARNING: disturbing video.Just days after the street check apology, @HfxRegPolice deployed a taser on an unarmed black man on Quinpool Rd.Im told there was an altercation between him and construction workers before police arrived. Video not mine, sent to me by a bystander pic.twitter.com/xP95ZTziGR
The raccoon that helped save Robie Street
By Kaija Jussinoja
We’ve never had a deadlier COVID week and Tim Houston doesn’t seem to care
By Kyle Shaw
The Dalhousie Arts Centre’s expansion might just fix Halifax’s venue crisis
By Morgan Mullin
Cop tasers innocent man, gets lightly punished, appeals to erase that punishment
By Matt Stickland