Opens Friday, August 10 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road Beth (Danika Vandersteen) is a young mother, recently widowed, attempting to heal with a retreat in a big beach-side house that looks like it was made out of very fancy Lego—wood and glass, triangles and rectangles. The trip quickly turns creepy—there’s a jarring, ugly […]
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A League of Their Own’s return
Hanksfest featuring A League of Their Own July 6-12 (fest runs to Aug 2) Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road $6.99 cineplex.com/events Tom Hanks is turning 62 on July 9, and to celebrate Cineplex has created Hanksfest, which across the next month will screen four of the actor’s classics, including Apollo 13, Forrest Gump […]
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Cheesy James Bondage
Flashback Film Fest February 2-8 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road See cineplex.com for times This week, Cineplex’s Flashback Film Fest—once known as the Great Digital Film Festival—returns with its usual dose of 1980s favourites: Tarantino, Coen brothers and the like. Anything with a robot, monster, alien, time-travelling DeLorean or a rug that really […]
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The Florida Project’s sunny outlook
The Florida Project Opens Friday, October 27 Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road “I’ve been very influenced and inspired by The Little Rascals,” says Sean Baker. “And that’s no joke—in every one of my films is a link to The Little Rascals.” The writer-director is on the phone between sold-out screenings at The […]
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Movie Review: Una
Rooney Mara seeks revenge—or something like it—against her rapist in Una, a spare and beautifully photographed exploration of the complexities of trauma. When Una was 13 (played at that age by Ruby Stokes), her neighbour Peter (Ben Mendelsohn) began paying inappropriate attention to her, culminating in a sexual relationship. He ran, was kept from her […]
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The Atlantic Jewish Film Festival wants to connect and relate
Atlantic Jewish Film Festival October 19-22 Musuem of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, and other venues $5-$25 theajc.ns.ca/ajff The fourth Atlantic Jewish Film Festival is upon us. Presented by the Atlantic Jewish Council, the festival runs from October 19-22 and will see 10 films make their Halifax debuts. The lineup features films in German, Hebrew, […]
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Black Cop’s not a warning
[Editor’s note: As of June 2020, the movie Black Cop can be streamed for free on CBC Gem. Watch it here.] Black Cop Monday September 18, 6:30pm, Cineplex Park Lane, $22.50 finfestival.ca “So many people, even when they’re so upset about the idea of what this movie’s about, they don’t want to talk about it […]
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The Crescent creeps
The Crescent Sunday September 17, 9:30pm, Cineplex Park Lane, $17.50 finfestival.ca Nancy Urich and Seth A. Smith have been making art in Nova Scotia since they were teenagers, first as musicians in Burdocks and then in Dog Day. Smith’s distinctive visual art, much of it created as half of the design team Yorodeo, has adorned […]
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Play Your Gender slays
[IMAGE-1] Play Your Gender August 22-24 More info prismaticfestival.com A woman has never won Producer of the Year at the Grammy Awards and only five percent of women are music producers, despite the Taylors, Beyonces and Adeles dominating the pop landscape. The documentary Play Your Gender gets to the core of the problem— sexism in the […]
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FIN Fest advice: Don’t miss these films
Scanning through the FIN schedule can be an overwhelming task. A decent handful of the festival’s films already have release dates, so you should consider saving those for later and make space in your week for these selections instead: The Child Remains: Michael Melski’s creepy-crawly haunted house film stars the great Quebec actor Suzanne Clément […]
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Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown sees stars
Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown Wednesday, September 20, 7:15pm Cineplex Park Lane More info Jackie Smith and Diana Hart have a couple things in common. They’re both in their 50s and aren’t letting a little thing like age stop them from pursuing life goals associated with youth: he fronts rock band […]
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Werewolf, Ashley McKenzie’s fearless debut feature
“I do what feels right to me, and I follow my instincts,” says Ashley McKenzie, the director, writer and editor of Werewolf, her debut feature. “I had a feeling, writing the script, knowing we should never see the ocean. Growing up in and now living in a town where I can look out a window […]