On the Friday before the Labour Day long weekend I put together a list of great Canadian movies available for free on CBC Gem ...

Another season of fascinating and diverse programming at the local independent cinema where I'm one of the programmers has ...

Written by Maras and David Haig, based on Haig’s stage play | 100 min | ▲▲▲ | For rent on VOD The D-Day invasion by Allied ...

A full recap of Halifax Music Fest 2026 at the Garrison Grounds, featuring Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional ...

Written by Samy Burch, James Gunn, and Jeremy Slater, based on a New Yorker article by Ian Frazier | 101 min | ▲1/2 | In ...

Night 3 of the TD Halifax Jazz Fest featured the Montreal-based headliner Men I Trust, who brought their dream-pop vibes east to treat the Halifax crowd. There was a fervent buzz around town when the ...

Welcome to 18th Century England and an estate in the North, set away from the violence of the Jacobite rebellion and a virulent outbreak of the pox but hardly free of mud, rodents, maggots, or the ...

On Friday I once again shared my many opinions with the CBC listening audience on Information Morning Halifax, guest-hosted by Preston Mulligan. Carsten Knox is a massive, cheese-eating nerd. In the ...

ICYMI, on Friday I once again showed up on CBC Information Morning radio in Halifax to talk movies with guest host Preston Mulligan. Carsten Knox is a massive, cheese-eating nerd. In the day he works ...

I’m a fan of Assayas, especially his pictures with Kristen Stewart (The Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper). The French filmmaker introduced The Wizard Of The Kremlin at TIFF by saying his ...

Beatrice (Dana Solomon) is a young, queer Metis woman who writes for a newspaper and works at a grocery store in her small town, She isn’t happy to see the return of her mother, Léonore ...

This is a painterly and deliberate satire/procedural on authoritarian bureaucracy, set in Stalinist Russia in 1937. As a deep dive into the way bureaucracy crushes freedom at a time of fascism, this ...