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

If you’ve seen the trailer for this picture, you might’ve thought to yourself, “Hey, the grizzled veteran mentoring the young ...

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

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

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

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

It felt appropriate on the weekend of the Canadian Screen Awards to dig into the dark, dirty past of the Canadian movie business. Highpoint was made during the much-maligned tax shelter years in ...

As regular readers of FITI will know, I’m a programmer and artistic director at Carbon Arc Cinema in Halifax. We’re going dark this week to give the cinema spotlight to the Halifax Independent ...

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 ...

Written and Directed by Andrew DeYoung | 100 min | 1/2. Maybe fans of I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson’s TV series, will have some sense of what to expect with this movie, but I went in blind — ...

On Friday I chatted with guest-host Preston Mulligan to open The Knox Office on CBC Radio’s Information Morning to review a few new movies. On my list this time was Nova Scotia-shot psychological ...

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, ...