Baker has a knack for sustaining that underlying, skin-crawling suspense, even as in broad strokes Anora could be described ...

I’m just in from The Substance and my head is still spinning from the heavy dose. More on that below. The second half of the film takes the nurses to a rural village, and the film brings in a more ...

ICYMI earlier this week I was on CBC Nova Scotia with my column, The Knox Office, giving listeners the scoop on a few of the ...

Early Friday afternoon I found myself at the Lord Nelson for a conversation between the excellent Laura Simpson of Side Door and artist, filmmaker, musician, and actor Sook-Yin Lee, who is here to ...

Sunday started with a documentary at the Atlantic International Film Festival that drew Halifax’s cinephiles of all stripes. The doc also explains his personal relationship with both Michael Powell, ...

I’m back in Halifax, flying in from Pearson and landing around 4pm Atlantic Time. I ran into Haligonian screenwriter Noah Pink (Tetris, Eden) at the airport, the second time in as many days — we ...

You’ll find me a longtime fan of Julie Delpy the actor, writer, and director — in the Before series, Three Colours: White, and Two Days in Paris. She’s back with this quite broad, clever comedy called ...

ICYMI, you can go here to give that conversation a listen.

2024 marks the 21st year I’ve attended the Atlantic International Film Festival, formerly FIN, formerly the Atlantic Film ...

David MacKenzie is the talent who directed the excellent Hell Or High Water and pretty damn good Outlaw King, so when I saw he had something new here at TIFF I made a point of catching it. This ...

I think of Ron Howard as Hollywood’s highest profile journeyman director, someone who’s comfortable in multiple genres while being best known for blockbuster entertainments. Here he’s stepping into a ...