At its dark heart, it offers yet another occasion for audiences, and critics, to say with conviction: “Nobody but McKellan ...

The film is split in two, with a second half that is more about the relationship between Spike and his ma, Isla (Jodie Comer) ...

There’s still business to be done — he has a plan to swindle investors on a slave-labour project in Phoenicia, so has a ...

I once again showed up on CBC Radio in Nova Scotia to talk movies. The slate included the new Danny Boyle and Alex Garland ...

Nic’s the nameless, titular surfer, a divorced father looking to buy his former family home on the hillside above a gorgeous ...

We acknowledge that we live and work in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People, and we acknowledge them as the past, present, and future caretakers of this land. We ...

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 ...

Last week I went to see the new Mission: Impossible movie, The Final Reckoning, on its opening day — the same day I saw the new Disney remake of one of its animated hits, Lilo & Stitch. On Friday ...

The Italianate style was common in Canada from 1850-1870. It was particularly popular for commercial buildings in Halifax, possibly due to a number of large fires requiring reconstructing entire ...

Postscript Thinking about Morris Street in the 1970s has helped me recover a couple of memories from the 1950s. Probably in the late 1950s my mother took me to see a remarkable collection of Tom ...

Stephen Archibald. It’s Stephen Archibald doing the noticing. I’m a huge fan of Nova Scotia’s material culture and cultural landscapes. Twitter made me realize I could share what attracted my ...

The arrival of a sequel to the 2016 Ben Affleck actioner prompted me to go back and watch the nine-year-old original again. I think I might’ve been a little too hard on The Accountant in my review. It ...