When Hurricane Dorian hit Nova Scotia on September 7 as a post-tropical storm, it reminded many of destructive Hurricane Juan. It was also a taste of what the future holds. Climate change is contributing to the increasing frequency and intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes. As the planet warms, we can expect more storms like […]
Ellen Page
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There’s Something In the Water runs deep
There’s Something In the Water Sat, Sep 14, 9:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $18.50, finfestival.ca Nearly a year after publishing a book on environmental racism, the story has taken on a new life. There’s Something In the Water by Dalhousie professor Ingrid Waldron is now a 70-minute documentary co-produced by Ellen Page, […]
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Best Halifamous Person
Gold Winner Ellen Page Silver Winner Fat Apollo Bronze Winner Joel Plaskett
 It’s no surprise that Ellen Page was voted the best Halifamous person–she’s surpassed Halifame to real Hollywood stardom, appearing in major films like Juno, Inception and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Though the New York Times slammed Halifax as “about as far as you […]
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Inception’s storytelling is still in dreamworld
Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are Warriors of the Subconscious in Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Secret agent Cobb (DiCaprio) enters peoples’ dreams to steal knowledge and ideas. He’s then hired to try something considered impossible—implanting an idea (and one that can change the world). Regarded even before its release as the saving grace of […]
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Ellen Page hearts Cisco?
Easy, breezy, beautiful commercial girls. Remember how shocked people were when Bob Dylan showed up in a Victoria’s Secret commercial? That was awkwardly weird, but not as gross as one I heard this week: Fine Young Cannibals’ song “She Drives Me Crazy,” on a cough syrup commercial, where sick people hack up flem on command during the choruses. No one’s blaming the old guys for endorsing a few products to keep the limo fuelled, but as Slate pointed out, it’s always a little different when it’s indie sweethearts like Zooey Deschanel and Ellen Page. Read their analysis here, and watch
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Best Female Film / TV Actor
After a lull where we didn’t see the Oscar nominee, now Ellen is everywhere, even in the streets of Halifax (there were frequent sightings over the summer—it’s good to know despite her Hollywood schedule she still gets to come home once in awhile). She starred in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut Whip It and will soon […]
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More Ellen Page: actor to write “hipster comedy” for HBO
No doubt Ellen Page will be calling in a few editing favours from Diablo Cody when she writes Stitch N’ Bitch, a single-camera comedy for HBO. Page will be co-writing with fellow actors Sean Tillmann and Alia “Maebe” Shawkat, who co-starred in Whip It with Ellen Page, and also had a great performance in Amreeka, which screened at the Atlantic Film Festlval. Jezebel recently ran clips of an interview with Page and Shawkat, suggesting the two are convincing real-life best friends, so there must be some truth to that. According to reports, “The trio will executive produce the project,
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Best Halifamous Person
As The Coast pointed out in December 2007, last year our homegirl Ellen went from local teen talent to international megastar, as the teen dramedy Juno led to her first Academy Award nomination and a gig hosting Saturday Night Live. It might seem perverse to say it, but that was the easy part. Sure, she […]