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Oxford Theatre
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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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30 things to do on Quinpool Road
1. Celebrate Quinfest The annual street wide, family friendly festivities honouring the one of Halifax’s busiest streets, returns this Saturday, September 20 from 11am-3pm. “It is important for the [Quinpool Road Mainstreet District] Association and its members to host Quinfest every year because it gives us a chance to show appreciation to our many customers […]
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Best Movie Theatre
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame inductee Oxford Theatre Silver Winner Empire Bayers Lake Bronze Winner Empire Dartmouth Crossing The best movie-going experience in town looks a little something like the first row of the balcony seats at Oxford Theatre. Seriously, the leg room alone deserves an award. That’s just one of the reasons our […]
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The Oxford turns 75
The Oxford Theatre (6408 Quinpool, 423-7488) is celebrating its 75th (the year of diamond and gold) with classics from 1930 to 2000. In the great tradition of online voting, you get the power to choose which films will screen at one-day-only matinees. Click away and cross those fingers for your choice, the next round of […]
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Screening of The Music Never Stopped for Atlantic Association for Music Therapy
To celebrate Music Therapy Month, the Atlantic Association for Music Therapy is holding screening The Music Never Stopped, directed by Jim Kohlberg. The screening happens 10am, Saturday March 3 at the Oxford Theatre (6408 Quinpool Road), followed by a Q&A. $10/$6 for students. The Music Never Stopped is set in the mid-1980s, telling a story […]
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Nightmare Factory screens at The Oxford
Film Nova Scotia and Empire Theatres are presenting a free screening of Nightmare Factory at the Oxford Theatre (6408 Quinpool Road) on Wednesday, February 29, 7pm. Nightmare Factory delves inside the fascinating high-stakes world of special FX make-up and creature design through the eyes of one of the industry’s key players, Greg Nicotero. He headed […]
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Gorgeous, sad drama Monsieur Lazhar
Quebec filmmaker Philippe Falardeau weaves a sad, gorgeous commentary on grief, immigrant struggle and educational bureaucracy in Monsieur Lazhar, an adaptation of a one-man stage play. Having escaped persecution in Algeria, the title character (Fellag) takes charge of a Montreal classroom where the previous teacher took her own life, a suicide that’s left the pre-teen […]
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Best Movie Theatre
Gold Winner Oxford Theatre Silver Winner Empire Dartmouth Crossing Bronze Winner Empire Park Lane A great theatre means lots of different things to lots of different people. Dark enough to make out in undetected? Quiet and respectful attendees, with limited annoying texters? Tasty popcorn? Romantic atmosphere? The Oxford Theatre—“One of the last great venues for […]
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Both Anonymous and forgettable
The Day After Tomorrow director Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous is a melodramatic exploration into William Shakespeare’s true identity. It opens and closes as a modern play and in between we travel to Shakespeare’s time and then jump chaotically within a 45-year period. The gist of the spiraling plot is simple: the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans) […]
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Down The Road Again revisits classic Canadiana
Donald Shebib’s 1970 classic Goin’ Down The Road didn’t shy away from tragedy. The result is a depressingly realistic take on two Cape Breton pals, Joey(Paul Bradley) and Pete(Doug McGrath) going to Toronto to make their fortune but leaving with their tails between their legs. The sequel picks up 40 years later and asks the […]
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Adrenalized Senna
A documentary look at the unearthly talent of Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula One driver who sustained one of the great motor sport rivalries with Alain Prost in the 1980s and early ‘90s. Assembled using period footage and media interviews (voices are often heard but no talking heads) Senna himself winds up narrating much of […]