Who Let the Dogs Out Fri, Sep 13, 9:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $13.50-$15, finfestival.ca For the amount of time it’s been living in our heads rent-free, each and every one of us should have made a documentary about “Who Let the Dogs Out” by now. And yet, it took one obsessive […]
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Film review: Black Cop
Black Cop Opens Friday, June 1 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road Black Cop was shot in Halifax, but you’d only know that if you already lived here. Cory Bowles’ directorial debut, expanded from his 2015 short, looks and feels as if it could be anywhere in North America, and that’s just what he […]
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The Child Remains: Canadian Horror Story
The Child Remains Opens Friday, April 27 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road The Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester operated from the 1920s through the 1940s, offering babies for sale and housing the unwed women who bore them. If the babies weren’t white and healthy—”unsaleable”—they were starved or buried alive in the surrounding […]
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Lean On Pete’s heartbreaking journey
Lean On Pete Opens Friday, April 27 The titular character in Lean On Pete is a horse, but make no mistake: This film is no Flicka. It’s no Secretariat. If you want an unequivocally happy ending for both horse and human, you won’t find it here. But the story has other things to offer. Writer […]
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A universal event
Halifax Black Film Festival March 2-4 The Rape of Recy Taylor screening Friday March 2, The Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street, 6pm $20 halifaxblackfilm.com “Recy Taylor spoke up and called what happened to her what it was—she was not embarrassed by it, she was not ashamed, she was horrified,” says the documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski. […]
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The Atlantic Film Festival is FIN it to win it
The Atlantic Film Festival is launching into its 37th year with a new name and big plans. From here on out, the annual event will be referred to as FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival. The festival teamed up with Revolve for the rebranding. FIN doesn’t stand for anything, but festival director Wayne Carter says its […]
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The Last Magnificent‘s Tower trip
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road Opens Friday, May 5 It’s a disgusting quip, but towering is a great way to describe Jeremiah Tower. He is a Paul Bunyan-like figure in American cuisine, a tall tale of culinary innovation, dizzying successes, stunning failure and, then, disappearance. Tower got his […]
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Weirdos clicks
Weirdos Opens Friday, March 17 It’s 1976, and Kit (Dylan Authors) is restless. It’s summer in Antigonish and he wants an adventure. He devises a plan with his girlfriend Alice (Julia Sarah Stone) to hitchhike to Sydney where his bohemian mother (Molly Parker) lives. She’s travelled the world, hung out at The Factory in New […]
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The feminist guide to summer screens
Streaming now (CRAVE) Casual This sleeper dramatic comedy, now in its second season, stars the great Michaela Watkins as Valerie, an older divorced woman trying to navigate a drastically different dating world, and Tara Lynne Barr as her sex-positive teenage daughter. Airing now (Lifetime) UnREAL The eternally underappreciated Constance Zimmer teams up with Shiri Appleby […]
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On Monday, you can see Prince’s Purple Rain in theatres
On Monday, May 2, Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane will screen Prince‘s 1984 rock-musical Purple Rain for one-night-only to honour the recent death of the pop-music royal. Tickets are now on sale for $6.99, with $1.00 of every ticket donated to MusiCounts, Canada’s music education charity via The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS). The 1-hour and […]
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Review: Nina Forever
Nina Forever is about a morbid oddball-couple, which, if you’ve seen Corpse Bride, Let the Right One In, or Only Lovers Left Alive, will sound like familiar territory. Though this British movie (which is being sold as a horror-comedy, but that strikes me as stretching definitions of horror and comedy) barely digs beneath its surface, […]
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Review: Kung Fu Panda 3
As far as movie franchises go, you can do much worse than Kung Fu Panda, which stars Jack Black as a panda destined to be a great martial artist. The voice cast is big-time and wonderful: Dustin Hoffman as the tiny sensei Shifu, Angelina Jolie as the stoic Tigress, Seth Rogen as Mantis, Lucy Liu as Viper and David […]