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) ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...