Screen Nova Scotia held its annual awards gala on Thursday night (last night, Nov 25), honouring some of the best productions, crew and cast members in the local film and television industry. While the COVID-19 pandemic forced this year’s awards gala—on its seventh iteration—to once again be held virtually, Nova Scotia’s film and television industry […]
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Film review: The Biggest Little Farm
In The Biggest Little Farm, we meet a host of characters: Todd the rescue dog, Emma the pig and Greasy the rooster as well as cows, snails, gophers, coyotes, bees, ducks, a cat, and on and on. These 200 acres in California—dusty, dead, dry soil when Molly Chester and her husband John, who directed and […]
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McQueen was his work
McQueen opens Friday, August 24 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road The summer Ian Bonhôte moved to England from France was also the summer Alexander McQueen’s star reached a new point in the stratosphere. “He was everywhere, his name was everywhere, we were all waiting for what he’d do next,” the filmmaker—who is half […]
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Movie review: Three Identical Strangers
Tim Wardle’s Sundance sensation Three Identical Strangers starts off with a fantastical story: Two men, adopted at birth, realizing they’re twins who’ve been separated when one is mistaken for the other on his first day of college. AND THEN, upon seeing them in the newspaper, a third man pipes up. AND THEN they get famous. […]
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In The Wave‘s deep dive
In the Waves at HIFF Thursday, June 7, 7pm Neptune Scotiabank Stage 1593 Argyle Street $10/$12 (HIFF pass $35) tickethalifax.com Jacquelyn Mills had been gathering research about her grandmother Joan’s life, intending to make a narrative film based on her life in a Cape Breton fishing village, when Joan’s sister—Mills’ great-aunt—died. Everything changed. “It seemed […]
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Authentically Modified
Modified at Devour! The Food Film Fest Al Whittle Theatre 450 Main Street, Wolfville Tue Oct 24, 1pm Wed Oct 25, 10am $5, devourfest.com Growing up in the Gaspereau Valley, Aube Giroux’s backyard doubled as her grocery store. Her mother’s sprawling, bountiful garden was the source of not just her family’s every meal, but her […]
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The Delinquents Movie drops in for its Halifax premiere
The Delinquents Movie Friday, September 29, 8pm Pro Skateboards, Snowboards & Surfboards 6451 Quinpool Road Two years of blood, sweat and beers will pay off Friday at Pro Skates with the premiere of The Delinquents Movie. Founded by Halifax native Ian MacArthur, The Delinquents is a group of dedicated snowboarders from the east coast whose […]
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Titanic’s song of fire and ice
New Year’s Day brought the world a fresh look at the sinking of the Titanic, and it has nothing to do with the claim the boat that sank off Newfoundland was actually Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic. In Titanic: The New Evidence, a documentary aired January 1 on England’s Channel 4, modern animation techniques are […]
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Review: Where to Invade Next
The idea that Michael Moore, the only multimillionaire documentarian, is a outsider Everyman slash provocateur has been laughable since he won the Oscar for Bowling For Columbine. His schtick—he still wears the same baseball hat/glasses/ill-fitting jean combo he’s been sporting since he was a commoner, circa 1989’s Roger & Me; he still narrates, in his […]
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Local doc Myrtle Beach headed to Slamdance Film Fest
In January, locally produced documentary Myrtle Beach premieres at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, an independent complement to the Sundance Film Festival that same week. Produced, directed and shot by Atlantic photographers Michael Fuller and Neil Rough, the film follows a few Myrtle Beach denizens to create interesting and dynamic portraits of the human condition. Set […]
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The Wolfpack’s cinematic shut-ins
Five years ago on a regular day in Manhattan, filmmaker Crystal Moselle noticed an unusual-looking group walking along First Avenue. The six Ray Ban-wearing, long-haired brothers, then aged 11 to 18, looked like the Reservoir Dogs. Moselle was compelled to strike up a conversation, and soon discovered that their chance encounter was one of the […]
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Board talk
Lesley Choyce—writer, educator and surfer—moved up here from the United States in the late 1970s. He purchased a farmhouse near Lawrencetown Beach for $15,000. “The dream was to leave teaching at university in New York City behind and live in an old house on the coast so I could write my books and surf the […]