Diane Kruger puts in a largely overlooked career-best performance in In the Fade, the 2017 thriller from Fatih Akin that won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Picture and wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar. Kruger, acting in her native German, is Katja, whose Kurdish husband Nuri (Numan Acar) and young son are killed […]
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Made for TV with Cinema 902
Cinema 902 Saturdays on Eastlink TV, 11pm repeating Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday Often you have to wait for a film festival or one-off screening to catch locally made movies, but Cinema 902‘s been offering up a slate of Halifax-created features since January. And beginning at the top of this month, the program—airing on Eastlink TV at […]
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Pure returns to NS for season 2
The Nova Scotia-made series Pure, which was canned by the CBC after a single season in 2017, has been resurrected by Super Channel for a six-episode second run due to air in 2019. Pre-production is underway now, with shooting expected to begin in the province later this spring. Sort of a buttoned-up Weeds, Pure stars […]
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Film review: Outside In
Outside In Carbon Arc Cinema, 1747 Summer Street Friday April 6, 7pm $8 carbonarc.ca Lynn Shelton makes small movies with high concepts, such as 2009’s Humpday, about two straight best friends who agree to have sex for an amateur porn competition; and Your Sister’s Sister, a single-location three-hander involving sperm-stealing. Both of those starred Mark […]
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Film review: Love, Simon
Greg Berlanti is more recently known as the shepherd of the superhero TV series The Flash and Supergirl, but his best-loved creation is Everwood, the earnest family drama set in Colorado starring Treat Williams, Emily VanCamp and Chris Pratt. Love, Simon, Berlanti’s first film since the 2010 rom-com Life As We Know It, traffics in […]
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Dafoe and Pattinson to visit The Lighthouse in Nova Scotia
Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe and ex-vampire Robert Pattinson will star in The Lighthouse, a horror film set in Nova Scotia in the 20th century. Unlike Maudie, the movie will also shoot in the province. It’s being directed by Robert Eggers, whose debut The Witch (AKA The VVitch) was a modest hit in 2016. Pattinson, whose […]
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Film review: Red Sparrow
Jennifer Lawrence has endured a few bad bounces lately, from Joy to Passengers to mother!, less a bad bounce than an open-faced windshield-crash. Much is being made of this less-than-stellar run, but let’s keep some things in perspective: Lawrence’s film career is just eight years old, she won a Best Actress Academy Award on her […]
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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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At Women Making Waves, the creators are out there
Women Making Waves March 2-3 Lord Nelson Hotel, 1515 South Park Street A spotlight conversation with Tracey Deer March 3, 10:45am $11-$15 womenmakingwaves.ca Tracey Deer takes issue with the idea that stories from minority voices are niche. On the contrary: “The more specific you are and the more diverse and the more interesting, the better,” […]
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Film review: The Party
Sally Potter’s fierce and funny The Party, shot in sharp black and white with a total run time of 71 minutes (bless), moves and feels like a one-act play. Its stars an international slate of actors, as many films do, but the members of this small cast—Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall and Emily Mortimer (British), […]
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Film review: Black Panther
Ryan Coogler is 31 years old. That means he was 24 when he made Fruitvale Station, his first film with Michael B. Jordan (and his first film); 27 when he rebooted the Rocky franchise, of all things, with Creed; probably not yet 30 when he was handed Black Panther, the latest entry in the infinite […]
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Film review: Faces, Places
Faces, Places Friday, February 16, 7pm & 9pm Carbon Arc Cinema, 1737 Summer Street $8.75 carbonarc.ca The great French filmmaker Agnès Varda combines forces with the street artist J.R. in Faces, Places, a unique and fascinating documentary that follows the pair around the countryside talking to people and creating building-sized portraits of them on giant […]
