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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the seventh album drawn from my little collection of photos, arranged in more or less chronological order. In 1972-73 I sojourned in the countryside. In 1972 I got a job at the Nova Scotia ...

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 ...

Last month, Elizabeth Cushing tweeted astonishing “then and now” pictures of St. Mary’s Girls’ School on Grafton Street. Over the decades the building had lost decorative dormers and the pointy top of ...

A version of this review appeared on FITI in September during the Toronto International Film Festival. This film was shot in Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.