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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Fa-la-la-la films—it’s the best time of year for movie releases!
‘Tis the season when Oscar bait abounds, so you’re likely to catch us catching up at the theatre all month long. Here’s a few flicks we’re especially excited to see: Cate Blanchette is a dialled-up-to-11 femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro’s pulpy, 1940s New York-set Nightmare Alley—where she’s being tapped by critics to win the […]
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10 excuses to go to the movies this summer
June 28 Yesterday Danny Boyle returns with a new Patel in tow—Himesh, no relation to Slumdog Millionaire star Dev—for an alternate timeline comedy in which The Beatles don’t exist, allowing Patel’s Jack to become a huge star. There’s too much Ed Sheeran in the trailer for our liking, but there’s also lots of Kate McKinnon. […]
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Fall for Hopeless Romantic
Gala presentation: Hopeless Romantic Cineplex Park Lane Mall, 6:30pm 5657 Spring Garden Road Saturday, September 15 $22.50 finfestival.ca How might you make a romantic comedy that is funny and honest without being reductive about our experience of love? That’s the guiding question behind Hopeless Romantic, an ambitious locally-made film premiering this week at the Atlantic […]
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Fall for Hopeless Romantic
Gala presentation: Hopeless Romantic Cineplex Park Lane Mall, 6:30pm 5657 Spring Garden Road Saturday, September 15 $22.50 finfestival.ca How might you make a romantic comedy that is funny and honest without being reductive about our experience of love? That’s the guiding question behind Hopeless Romantic, an ambitious locally-made film premiering this week at the Atlantic […]
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Blue skies, silver screens: summer 2018’s must-see movies
Ah summer, the least inventive time in Hollywood, which is saying a lot. Whaddya know, there’s another Jurassic World—even though 2015’s reboot was a steaming pile of dino poo, it was also the year’s highest-grossing film. Everyone’s favourite cult vice-president, Tom Cruise, is falling out of cars, helicopters, buildings and who knows what else in […]
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Rejected Cineplex holiday trailers
A Holiday DuetTwo best friends, Melody and Harmony, head to the movies on Christmas. One of the girls is too poor to afford a ticket so her BFF grabs her hand and they sneak into the theatre. It’s joyous. MONTAGE: The girls grow apart. Melody gets into college and moves away, becoming a successful businessperson […]
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Hollywood’s recycling program
Don’t cry for the death of the classic cinematic experience—weep for the original screenwriter. Hollywood has always remade, reinvented and recast itself: We’re fresh off an updated Murder on the Orient Express, and a new Jumanji awaits this holiday season for those who…wanted it? But take a look over the past five years of box […]
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The Delinquents Movie drops in for its Halifax premiere
The Delinquents Movie Friday, September 29, 8pm Pro Skateboards, Snowboards & Surfboards 6451 Quinpool Road Two years of blood, sweat and beers will pay off Friday at Pro Skates with the premiere of The Delinquents Movie. Founded by Halifax native Ian MacArthur, The Delinquents is a group of dedicated snowboarders from the east coast whose […]
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The end of The Oxford
It’s about the building, but it isn’t. For some, going to the movies is just going to the movies. Those people are fine driving out to Bayers Lake or Dartmouth Crossing and stepping into a photocopied multiplex—if you entered a Cineplex-branded building in Edmonton or Barrie, you’d know exactly what to do—and enduring the flashing […]
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Death of the cinema
The sale of the Oxford Theatre is a sensible business decision for Cineplex Theatres. It was part of the deal when they purchased Empire Theatres in 2013, but the general consensus from talking to family and friends in Halifax—I’ve lived in the U.S. since 2010 and last visited the Oxford in 2015—was that they probably […]
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The Atlantic Film Festival is FIN it to win it
The Atlantic Film Festival is launching into its 37th year with a new name and big plans. From here on out, the annual event will be referred to as FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival. The festival teamed up with Revolve for the rebranding. FIN doesn’t stand for anything, but festival director Wayne Carter says its […]