When watching Night Blooms, the debut feature film from Stephanie Joline, it’s impossible for a viewer’s stomach to remain unclenched. The knots start tying in reaction to the visceral immersion felt from the movie’s opening frames: That you’re stuck in the nowheresville of 1998 small town Nova Scotia, just like the film’s anti-hero main character, […]
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Made for TV with Cinema 902
Cinema 902 Saturdays on Eastlink TV, 11pm repeating Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday Often you have to wait for a film festival or one-off screening to catch locally made movies, but Cinema 902‘s been offering up a slate of Halifax-created features since January. And beginning at the top of this month, the program—airing on Eastlink TV at […]
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FIN announces full film festival program
FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival (formerly known as The Atlantic Film Festival) has announced its eight-day lineup for this year’s fest, featuring homegrown and international talent. “If you’ve never been to the Atlantic International Film Festival, this is the year to take the plunge,” says program director Jason Beaudry. Things kick off at opening night […]
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Local horror film The Crescent needs your help
Director Seth Smith, producer Nancy Urich (full disclosure, Urich and I play in a band together) and screenwriter Darcy Spidle, the team behind CUT/OFF/TAIL Pictures, are back on their grind again, so rejoice. With a supremely spooky trailer for The Crescent, Smith continues to deal in the watery horror framework set down by 2012’s Lowlife, this […]
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Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival re-emerges
7th Annual Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival April 19-22 various locations free The Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival has come a long way since its first year, co-founders Tara Taylor and Shelley Fashan remember. “We had one day and one sponsor in our first year,” Taylor says with a chuckle. The festival focuses on diverse, […]
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SYNC or swim
SYNC x StART Festival: Century Egg, Crossed Wires & Mikaylaa States Friday, March 24, 8:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, free The Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-operative and Forward Music Group have connected two artistic communities via SYNC, a program matching filmmakers and musicians to produce low-budget, high-resource videos. Screening as part of this weekend’s […]
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Things I would ask Cheryl Blossom if I bumped into her getting a smoothie or whatever
Actor Madelaine Petsch—AKA Cheryl Blossom from the CW’s BRILLIANT (I do not care what any hater has to say on this topic) series Riverdale—is in town, shooting a horror movie at Dartmouth’s Prince Andrew High School, called Polaroid (high school weirdo finds old Polaroid camera that mysteriously kills those who appear in its photographs, if […]
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Weirdos clicks
Weirdos Opens Friday, March 17 It’s 1976, and Kit (Dylan Authors) is restless. It’s summer in Antigonish and he wants an adventure. He devises a plan with his girlfriend Alice (Julia Sarah Stone) to hitchhike to Sydney where his bohemian mother (Molly Parker) lives. She’s travelled the world, hung out at The Factory in New […]
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Amelia trailer flies high
The trailer for Amelia, Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic, starring Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor and Richard Gere, is now online. Set for release this October, scenes from the film were shot right here, but sadly without McGregor.