Splinters Thursday, September 13, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, 6101 University Avenue $50 finfestival.ca Thom Fitzgerald is having a busy week. Earlier he was in Toronto for the premiere of his new feature, Splinters, at TIFF. On Thursday night the film opens FIN: The Atlantic International Film Festival. And Friday is the first day of shooting […]
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AIFF 2018: Love, Scott brings a hate crime to light
Love, Scott Monday, September 17, 6:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $22.50 finfestival.ca Scott Jones’ life changed on the night of October 13, 2013, almost five years ago. The openly gay musician was attacked on a New Glasgow street by Shane Matheson, a teenager with a knife. The incident put Jones in hospital […]
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Juliet, Naked (and infamous)
Juliet, Naked Opens Friday, August 31 In the new romantic comedy Juliet, Naked, Rose Byrne is Annie, a small-town English curator living with Duncan (Byrne’s Bridesmaids co-star Chris O’Dowd) who is equally devoted to both her and a man: Tucker Crowe, a Nick Drake-style folk musician (Ethan Hawke, doing his own singing) who made one […]
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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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Atlantic International Film Festival announces 2018 slate
This morning FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival announced its September lineup, which will kick off with Thom Fitzgerald‘s Splinters, a film the director called his “most Atlantic Canadian” in a speech at the press conference. Starring Shelley Thompson and Closet Monster‘s Sofia Banzhaf, the film is an adaptation of Lee-Anne Poole‘s play and is about […]
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Movie review: The Crescent
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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Movie review: Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham is not yet 30, landing his own show on Comedy Central while still a teenager singing joke songs, like if Weird Al was a total prick. “There are many reasons to resent Mr. Burnham,” wrote the New York Times on Christmas Day, 2013, the chief one being (in The Coast’s current opinion) he’s […]
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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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Movie review: Leave No Trace
Debra Granik has made only three features in her career, six or seven years between each, but that small catalogue displays a filmmaker of confidence, depth, grace and uncommon quiet, with a genuine, respectful sense of place. (Kelly Reichardt is also this kind.) Where most directors would rush to fill the space, to make the […]
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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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Three Haligonian productions nab Telefilm feature funding
Three Nova Scotia production teams have been awarded funding for their debut feature films in Telefilm’s annual Talent to Watch program. Heather Young, whose short Milk premiered at TIFF and is still ripping up the festival circuit, and producer Martha Cooley will make Murmur. Taylor Olson will direct an adaptation of Catherine Banks‘ play Bone Cage with […]
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Strength and authenticity at OUTeast
OUTeast Queer Film Fest June 15-17 Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street $12-$15 (festival pass $50) outeastfilm.com It’s the seventh edition of OUTeast, and all of its founders left Halifax years ago, but the queer film festival keeps going. “The reason we still do this thing that is so important to us is that […]