The Dartmouth-based production company Tour Tech East is asking the provincial government for a $1 million grant to help transform an adjacent furniture factory into television and movie studios. According to the CBC, Tour Tech East’s owner Peter Hendrickson feels that expanding its existing two studios to seven will help the local economy in job […]
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Tom Sherman at HIFF
Last night The Coast called Tom Sherman from a computer. We dialed up his New York phone number from Skype on a Haligonian laptop and then a variety of devices facilitated a talk about technology, language and art. It’s fitting that this encounter was mitigated through a bizarre combination of communicative technologies, since technology and […]
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A limp American Reunion
Ever wonder what happened to the American Pie characters after the second sequel in 2003? Me neither. Still, here are Jim (Jason Biggs), Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), Stifler (Seann William Scott), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and a familiar crew of supporting characters, cramming the unwanted answers into multiplexes. The gang, now into […]
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The Raid: Redemption = Plenty of fighting
In this Indonesian action spectacle, an elite SWAT team storms a high-rise apartment building to rout out a bloodthirsty gang leader. Brutal, nonstop fighting follows suit. Welsh director Gareth Evans and star Iko Uwais showcase the traditional Indonesian martial art of Silat, a practice that demonstrates the voluminous number of flailing fists and elbows an […]
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Revenge of the Electric Car
As the old saying goes, success is the best revenge. In the follow up to his critically acclaimed documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, Chris Paine’s Revenge of the Electric Car details the insurgence of electric vehicles on the commercial car world, following Nissan and GM as they attempt to make the world’s first affordable […]
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Trailer for To Rome With Love
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Ellen on the silver screen—what was it, last year’s Super? Anyway, we’re excited to see she’ll be starring in a Woody Allen picture, this one, as the title suggests, shot in Rome. Will she become his newest muse, now that Scarlett Johansson has moved on to superheroing? Well, rumour […]
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The Corridor arrives on VOD
We’ve been watching for The Corridor, directed by Evan Kelly and written by Josh MacDonald, since it screened to massive acclaim at the 2010 Atlantic Film Festival (check here and here for stories on the award-winning film and its creative talent). If you haven’t had the chance to see the story of a group of […]
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Battleship Potemkin screens with live music
On Saturday, March 31 at 7pm at Alumni Hall at The University of King’s College (6350 Coburg Road), Battleship Potemkin will be screened. It’s hard to underestimate the influence of this 1925 Russian picture. Directed by 27-year-old Sergei Eisenstein, a retelling of a naval mutiny and the resulting street demonstration, the film’s grand visual scope […]
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Maritime Film Classification Board: Revealed
If you wanted to know anything about the people who classify films for audiences in Nova Scotia—whether they’re parents or singles, young or old, heathens or pearl-clutchers—you’re plum outta luck. We’re allowed to know the names of the 17 appointees to the Maritime Film Classification Board, but not much else about them. As Service Nova […]
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There’s some magic in Mirror, Mirror
This take on the Snow White story is a pleasant family affair with wry comic turns from both expected and unexpected sources. Julia Roberts tops the marquee as a vain, scheming queen desperate to maintain her grip on her kingdom and her fading beauty, delivering everything one could ask for in a big movie-star performance […]
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Dire Wrath of the Titans
This sequel to Clash of the Titans (2010) is more of a showcase for special effects than it is a movie, with a convoluted plot and almost-characters layered on top for good measure. Demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington) ventures to the Underworld prison, Tartarus, to save his father, Zeus (Liam Neeson), and fight, with the help […]
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FILM 5 2012 goes to camera
Four short films are slated for production through the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op’s FILM 5 training program. The first, Irene, started shooting this past weekend. As usual, the subject matter for the films varies widely. Irene is a drama about a call girl who discovers a lump in her breast. Or rather, it’s her client who […]
