Wayne Carter is the new executive director of the Atlantic Film Festival. Carter comes to the position, previously filled by Gregor Ash, with a wealth of professional experience: “A native of Miramichi, New Brunswick, Carter began his entertainment associations early as a young singer and theatre manager,” explains the press release bio. “In the grand […]
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NSCAD film students screen their year’s work
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design film students will have the chance to share their cinematic creations in a series of public film screenings on Thursday, April 19 at the Empire 8 Park Lane Theatre (5657 Spring Garden Road, 423-4860) at 7pm. Don’t feel like watching movies in which crazed teenagers find inventive ways […]
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The Boxing Girls of Kabul screens at Viewfinders
When Ariel Nasr was asked to film his first feature for the National Film Board, he packed his bags and moved to Afghanistan for what he thought would be a short trip. “I really wanted to tell a story about Afghanistan and decided to move there for six months, which seemed like a long time […]
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Love the boat
Last week, James Cameron’s Titanic was re-released in theatres sporting a new 3D look. This makes sense, because it’s the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking and because it’s a great way for a studio to make gobs and gobs of money off a movie that’s already been produced. I can’t argue that this strategy […]
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Occupy first class
The biggest name associated with the new miniseries, Titanic, airing now on Global and due on DVD later in April, isn’t Lyndsey Marshal, whom you’ll recognize as Cleopatra from HBO’s Rome, nor Maria Doyle Kennedy, familiar from her work on The Tudors, or Toby Jones, who played Truman Capote in 2006’s Infamous, but rather the […]
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A poke in the eye for The Three Stooges
A lot of people are hit on the head in the Farrelly brothers’ contemporary update of The Three Stooges. When Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), Larry (Sean Hayes) and Curly (Will Sasso) learn the orphanage they grew up in is set to be sold, the three morons set out to raise money and buy it back. Diamantopoulos, […]
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Get outta the StreetDance 2
A stumbling sequel to StreetDance 3D, itself a vehicle for winners of Britain’s Got Talent, this newest dance film falls flat on its face. The stakes can’t possibly be lower when street dancer Ash assembles a team of misfit European dancers devoid of anything close to characterization, all so he can get back at a […]
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Lockout has the action-flick key
An ex-CIA operative’s only chance for redemption is to rescue the president’s daughter from rioting inmates inside a high-tech prison. In space. Luc Besson co-wrote this high-concept action flick, which aptly blends its futuristic setting with tense action scenes. Thankfully, the movie about a space prison doesn’t take itself too seriously. Murderous inmates and secretive […]
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Dreamy Jiro Dreams of Sushi
David Gelb’s unassuming little documentary works itself into you with gentle insistence, its hypnotic effect as subtle as it is inevitable. The subject is Tokyo’s master sushi chef Jiro Ono, an 85-year-old whose dedication to the job is so total that his middle-aged sons, well-trained sushi wizards in their own right, seem destined to forever […]
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Our newest movie reviews
Here are links to all the new movie reviews in one place, for an opening weekend that features, from the top down: a great documentary about sushi, an alright action flick about a space prison, and a race to the bottom between a Stooges remake and a Britiain’s Got Talent spinoff. Jiro Dreams of Sushi […]
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DOCU-LAB lstarts this month
Do you have a documentary idea creeping around in the back of your mind, begging to be put down on film? The Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative is here to help with their first ever course on documentary filmmaking, called DOCU-LAB, starting April 23. The 15 participants selected will have access to everything from documentary history classes […]
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Emerging Lens film screenings return
The Emerging Lens film screening is back for round two. The mini film fest, designed to provide a platform for African Canadian filmmakers to showcase their work, made its popular debut last year. This year’s films focus on sharing the black experience and features work from around Nova Scotia and Toronto. Artists presenting films at […]
