The script apparently was on the Blacklist at one time — a collection of the most admired unproduced screenplays in Hollywood ...

However, as a portrait of a corrupt, morally compromised society, it qualifies — I guess so does Russia through Zvyagintsev’s ...

The trap snaps shut; host Chris Hansen confronts the man and films him, humiliating him for his illegal desires, and the cops ...

Today Peter Farrelly would be best known for all the wildly popular comedy pictures he made with his brother back in the day — among them Dumb And Dumber, There’s Something About Mary, and Shallow Hal ...

To grow as a noticer you need to be challenged so your understanding of materials, and design, and technique is constantly expanding. Recently three people, whose work helped to train my eye, died. I ...

Gordon Stephenson was brought in by Halifax Council in 1957 to develop a plan for slum clearance. Stephenson was considered to be an expert in urban renewal and, as advocated by modernists like ...

Stephanie Joline, formerly Clattenburg, has been making waves in the local film and music scene for years. She’s served as a drummer in rock bands, worked as an actor in Andrea Dorfman’s Heartbeat, on ...

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 — ...

On the Friday before the Labour Day long weekend I put together a list of great Canadian movies available for free on CBC Gem, Kanopy, and YouTube that deserve to be discovered by all Canadian ...

Our recent look at Italianate Architecture missed one unique, but unfortunately now gone, example. This octagonal villa style was popular between 1850 and 1870. The idea behind octagonal building ...

This is the thirteenth album selected from my little collection of photos. Just some shots of buildings on a couple of blocks of Morris Street. Morris Street is a useful east-west Halifax thoroughfare ...

The first day of the Toronto International Film Festival was a brutal one for a couple of reasons — I’ll spare you the painful details of a scheduling mishap, of not getting access to many of the ...