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Written and Directed by James Gunn, based on the DC Comics character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster | 129 min | ▲▲ | ...
Maalik is broadly entertaining over its running time, which is bloated but well-paced. The violence is splashy and surprising ...
Andy and Quynh have their long awaited face off — set up in a post-credit sequence in the first film — and it’s a damp squib.
Directed by Gareth Edwards | Written by David Koepp, from Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton | 134 min | ▲▲1/2 | In Cinemas ...
For a national cinema culture that seems weirdly allergic to genre, we can be proud in Canada of the quality thrillers, ...
On last week’s CBC Information Morning I once again chatted with host Portia Clark about new films in cinemas, including ...
This collection is photos taken in Halifax in the 1970s, of buildings on Barrington Street heading north from South Street. In the 19th century this was Pleasant Street, the road to Point Pleasant. A ...
This is a tribute to the Ozploitation movies of the 1970s and ’80s, like Ted Kotcheff’s Wake In Fright, while also being that self-contained thing that’s becoming a genre unto itself: A Nicolas Cage ...
Recently Halifax Retales, in his reports on businesses opening and closing, noted that Noggins Farm Market was going to open an outlet in the new Capital Suites building at the corner of Coburg and ...
Have you noticed the talk recently about the burying grounds that were on the old Memorial Library site, and under the paved parking lot beside St Mary’s Basilica? A strong voice in this conversation ...
Built by CN in 1928, the train station and Hotel Nova Scotian were the final pieces of the Railcut and Ocean Terminals project. The images above are aerial views from 1931, and are from The Richard ...
An earlier version of this review ran in September 2024 during coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. What’s likely to be this year’s most high-profile Nova Scotian-made feature, ...