Tamara Podemski at Women Making Waves Saturday, March 9, 9:15am Lord Nelson Suites, 1515 South Park Street womenmakingwaves.ca “I’m going to talk about the climate right now in regards to women’s voices in front of and behind the screen,” says Tamara Podemski. “I started 25 years ago as a 15-year-old girl—I’ve seen so many different […]
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All about Steve
Street Legal airs Mondays on CBC beginning March 4 Steve Lund is a cliche. At first glance Lund seems about as rare as a three-leaf clover, or a piece of hay in a haystack. A Steve, after all, is just a variation on a Chris, a Ryan or, heaven help us, a Tom. A Steve […]
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#iconic: Cynthia Dale
Cynthia Dale is a true Canadian icon. She’s one of those precious few secrets we’ve managed to keep to ourselves: She’s a Stompin’ Tom song, a Company’s Coming cookbook, a butter tart. She’s all that and a bag of ketchup chips. Seeing Dale on screen again is welcomely familiar, like catching your favourite aunt at […]
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Film review: Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen has just an awful time in Arctic, a beautifully photographed, bracing addition to a survival genre that includes Gravity, Cast Away, 127 Hours, last year’s Adrift and, let’s be real, The Shallows. Mikkelsen’s Overgard is a pilot stranded in the titular land area. We don’t know for how long, but it’s been enough […]
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A handmade tale
Handmade Film Screening Tuesday, January 29, 7pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street free Of the art forms, filmmaking is usually one of the most collaborative—anyone who’s sat through the credits of a Marvel movie (all of you) knows this. But there is a different kind of filmmaker, one who makes movies alone, by […]
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Film review: On the Basis of Sex
In the final shot of On the Basis of Sex, Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, having slowly ascended the steps of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, disappears behind a pillar. She comes out the other side as the present-day, 85-year-old judge. In the theatre last weekend, a voice—male, of course; elderly, […]
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Cavendish‘s Island oddities
“The goal was to piss on Cavendish and everything they believe,” says Mark Little. “It’s government-funded revenge.” His new sitcom Cavendish, premiering January 8 on CBC, stars Little and former Picnicface colleague Andrew Bush, also executive producers The show revolves around the adventures of Andy (Bush) and Mark (Little), brothers who return to Cavendish, Prince […]
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Film review: If Beale Street Could Talk
Opens Friday, January 4 Cineplex at Park Lane Barry Jenkins follows up his Best Picture winner Moonlight with a similarly lyrical, heartfelt, lusciously filmed drama. In his adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins’ narrative approach is less linear than the three periods of Chiron in Moonlight: We are with […]
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The 10 best films of 2018
Blindspotting Daveed Diggs co-wrote and stars as Collin, freshly out on probation and returned to the Bay Area of California, which like most urban centres has seen a lot of its poorer citizens—people of colour, mostly—priced out. His friendship with Miles (Rafael Casal) is breezy but dangerous; the latter is white and quick to be […]
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Film review: Clara
The new Canadian drama Clara pokes at the big questions: Why are we here? Are we alone in the universe? Is love worth the pain? Isaac (Patrick J. Adams, from Suits) is an astronomer racing fellow scientists for the NASA-funded opportunity to discover new life in the universe, except he fucks up and gets fired […]
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Other tongues
Languages of Nova Scotia Thursday, November 29, 7pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road free The predominantly English local film scene will get mixed up this week, courtesy of the Languages of Nova Scotia screening. An initiative of the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co- operative, on Thursday five directors will present their debut shorts, […]
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Film review: The Front Runner
For his second film of 2018, Jason Reitman follows up the remarkable Tully with a completely different beast. Where the former was a quietly scary, exquisitely wrought depiction of post-partum depression, The Front Runner is a political comedy about a real-life event: Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign, which was ruined by an affair uncovered by […]