Amongst many of Winchester‘s curiosities: It’s based on the true story of Sarah Winchester, who did inherit her husband’s large gun fortune, did believe she was being haunted by the souls of every person killed by a Winchester rifle, did spend 38 years of non-stop construction on her estate, trying to build a resting home […]
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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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Film review: Call Me By Your Name
As is usual, Call Me By Your Name arrives in Halifax after nearly five months of rapturous response, beginning on the festival circuit in September, paralyzing gay Twitter in December and losing all of its Golden Globes last week. (Advice to men: Try not to make an awards bid when Daniel Day-Lewis is out here, […]
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Film review: The Post
The first draft of The Post was written by Liz Hannah, a 31-year-old television writer with one episode of the drama Guidance to her credit. She was paired with Josh Singer—Spotlight’s Academy Award-winning co-writer—for the produced film, but her fingerprints are obvious. Women—secretaries, less-important reporters, spouses—speak whenever there’s an opportunity, and fill the backgrounds of newsrooms, streets, […]
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Everyone’s Famous and the viral payday
Everyone’s Famous New episodes Thursdays everyonesfamous.ca It was 1968 when Andy Warhol said everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes, and he died before the modern internet was invented–he never knew how true this throwaway line would become. The Halifax-produced web series Everyone’s Famous, a third of the way into its second season, knows what’s […]
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Cindy Day’s final forecast
After a decade at CTV, Cindy Day will put up her last Weather Watch tonight. Day started her career on Ottawa radio before ending up on Global TV 19 years ago. She spoke to The Coast in the CTV Atlantic green room on Robie Street about her favourite viewers, the double-edged sword of social media […]
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The year in film
Andy Hines’ Grammy nomination The Nova Scotia-born Hines—his father is the photographer Sherman—already has a few awards for his music videos, including an MTV Moon Man. His clip for Logic’s “1-800-273-8255″—a sensitive, six-minute coming-out story starring Don Cheadle and Luis Guzmán—is up for the big time, a Grammy Award, in February. Black Cop This timely […]
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Film review: The Disaster Artist
The Disaster Artist is a film about a film, a bad one at that—The Room, the cult hit from 2003 that has become a hipster totem of irony over the past 14 years, with makeshift cinemas worldwide charging a few bucks for the apparent joy of collectively mocking someone’s heartfelt, yet terrible, art. (It’s essentially […]
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Film Review: The Breadwinner
Afghanistan in 2001 is the setting for The Breadwinner, Nora Twomey’s tough and imaginative animated story of a young girl trying to help her family. When her father is arrested—supposedly for teaching women how to read—and her mother is subsequently beaten for trying to find out what happened to him, Parvana (Saara Chaudry) decides to […]
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A film fest for all
Bluenose-Ability Film Festival November 30-December 3 Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road free baff.ca The Bluenose-Ability Film Festival kicks off its third year tonight, and in that time has remained the “only film festival with a focus on disability and mental health,” notes festival director Sarah Marshall. “We’re the flagship festival for that in […]
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Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Frances McDormand won the Academy Award for her portrayal of Marge Gunderson in Fargo, an—this is the correct usage of this word—iconic performance of uncommon warmth in a typically cold Coen brothers film set in the deep snow of Minnesota. But she’s at her best when she’s being a fierce bitch—think Olive Kitteridge, her disgruntled […]
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Hollywood’s recycling program
Don’t cry for the death of the classic cinematic experience—weep for the original screenwriter. Hollywood has always remade, reinvented and recast itself: We’re fresh off an updated Murder on the Orient Express, and a new Jumanji awaits this holiday season for those who…wanted it? But take a look over the past five years of box […]
