This years’ edition of FIN Atlantic International Film Festival offers audiences a heady mix of timely topics, fresh faces, big ideas and big names. With 120 films screening over eight days, it’s impossible to get to all of them—so, here are a handful not-be-missed flicks we’re extra-amped for. Get ready to binge! Murmur The fest’s […]
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Dafoe and Pattinson to visit The Lighthouse in Nova Scotia
Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe and ex-vampire Robert Pattinson will star in The Lighthouse, a horror film set in Nova Scotia in the 20th century. Unlike Maudie, the movie will also shoot in the province. It’s being directed by Robert Eggers, whose debut The Witch (AKA The VVitch) was a modest hit in 2016. Pattinson, whose […]
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Elephant the best thing in Water for Elephants
A melodramatic plot, an overdone soundtrack and countless montages make Francis Lawrence’s (I Am Legend) adaptation of Sara Gruen’s Depression-era novel (screenplay by Richard LaGravenese) a two-hour slog. Water for Elephants is told as a flashback in which a geriatric Jacob (Hal Holbrook) recounts his life story: young Jacob’s (Robert Pattinson) parents die the day […]