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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 ...
At its dark heart, it offers yet another occasion for audiences, and critics, to say with conviction: “Nobody but McKellan ...
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 ...
I don’t usually have many feeling about the loss of individual buildings but this one is different: the Alehouse is part of a collection of buildings all designed by the office of architect Henry ...
Movie talk on CBC Radio!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 ...
A recent Noticed in Nova Scotia post touched on the aesthetics of the Robie Street Reservoir. Stephen Archibald mentions that the reservoir was built in 1913, and it has received new roofs twice – ...
Recently the design for the redevelopment of the old World Trade and Convention Centre was presented to the city’s Design Review Committee. My attention was attracted by the proposed changes to the ...
Having binged the various versions of Little Women, I discovered the many adaptations of another beloved book: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. Not all the versions are available — ...