In Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as childless filmmakers who fall in with a hipster couple played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. Stiller’s best friend Fletcher, a new dad, is portrayed by Adam Horovitz, who you more likely recognize from his day job as a Beastie Boy. He […]
Film
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John Risley benefitted from those media tax credits he hates
[Image-1] Looks like the critics were wrong in thinking John Risley doesn’t know anything about the film industry. Last week, the Clearwater seafood baron let loose on Nova Scotia’s film tax credit system. According to Risley, the soon-to-be-slashed fund is nucking futs. But in all that chitinous tough talk Risley failed (or forgot) to mention […]
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Rich little prince doesn’t want to share his free money
[Image-1] John Risley is a “high profile Nova Scotia businessman.” That means he’s better than you; his opinion worth more than yours. So no wonder he gets ample room to stretch his crab legs over at the CBC and masticate away about the film industry’s beset-upon tax credit. “It is an absolute nonsense,” Risley told […]
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Trudeau plays it politically safe during Halifax visit
[Image-1] He was charming and affable to the onlookers who snapped photos. He had a circle of supporters following him around—from giggling fans to local volunteers. While thousands were gathered in front of the Legislature Wednesday afternoon protesting changes to the province’s film tax credit, federal Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau was wooing crowds at […]
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Happiness is
Lexie Ivy is 30, a small-town business owner, fashionable and eccentric, funny and smart. She’s also the single, overweight one of a trio of sisters, a redheaded sheep sticking way out amongst a family of fantasy blondes. “Flawed yet lovable” is how director and co-writer Deanne Foley describes the protagonist of her second feature, Relative […]
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Yes, Game of Thrones will be on IMAX in Halifax
[Image-1] Public obsession with HBO’s Game of Thrones has swept across North America like a Dothraki horde. Anyone daring to speak out against our television king faces a gruesome beheading—or at least disapproving talk show audiences. So it’s not surprising to hear Cineplex confirm that Game of Thrones: The IMAX Experience will be screening at […]
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A look back on 2014’s films of note
Two options: You can read through Tara Thorne‘s top 10 films of 2014 list (recommended) or just click on the mega trailer playlist below and zone out while putting a hurt on a box of Toffifee. ‘Tis the season.
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Lia Rinaldo
Managing director Devour! The Food Film Festival As a teenager, Lia Rinaldo got a job at the legendary Wormwoods Dog & Monkey Cinema, which led to the Atlantic Film Festival. “All of a sudden I blinked and 20 years had passed. It was a life in film and I never really planned on it,” she […]
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Sobering times for Nova Scotia’s film industry
[Image-1] The morning after the Atlantic Film Festival’s closing gala is always one of strange beds, wicked headaches and feet sore from dancing. How to best cure that hangover? For film industry professionals, the province’s tax credit review could jolt them to their senses faster than even the strongest cup of coffee. Back before the […]
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The Coast guide to the 2014 Oscar nominees for Best Picture
It’s Friday! Come with me on a celluloid journey! Forget about the terrible world and snow piling up and laundry piling up—think about popcorn and glittery dresses and powerful acting and substantially heavy gold statuettes. In preparation for March 2’s Academy Award gala, here is our take on some of the films nominated for an […]
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Atlantic Film Festival’s full screen
Film fans take note: the 32nd Atlantic Film Festival line up has been announced, giving you under a month to create your elaborate spreadsheets for optimum viewing capability (shuffling briskly from Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me to Seth Smith’s Lowlife, for instance). Running September 13-20, the fest kicks off with an opening gala screening of […]
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Hot TIFF
High fives all around for the local filmmakers taking their babies to the glittery Toronto International Film Fest. Namely, Ashley MacKenzie‘s When You Sleep (MacKenzie was also accepted to TIFF’s intensive four-day artistic development program, Talent Lab), Mike Clattenburg‘s Crackin’ Down Hard, Jason Buxton‘s Blackbird and Jason Eisener‘s offering in The ABCs of Death. May […]