Category Archives: Atlantic

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Post II — Reviews of Experimenter, Closet Monster

September 19, 2015 flawintheiris

The first full day at #AFF2015, following the traditional Gala screening Thursday night. This year Paul Gross' Hyena Road was the opener, and the party was at the Lord Nelson. Had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Gross and Allan Hawco at the hotel for a broadcast project I'll be talking about here on FITI in…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: First Post — Reviews of Hyena Road, Into The Forest, and more

September 17, 2015 flawintheiris

Full disclosure: this is actually my second post on this year's AFF—previously I offered a list of the films I was looking forward to seeing. But this is my first collection of mini-reviews, the films I've been able to see in advance of their screenings at the AFF. I'll post regularly through the fest with more…Read More

The Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Scheduling and The Multiple Man

September 15, 2015 flawintheiris

Every September since 2003 I have done the following little mental dance: How can I adjust my responsibilities of living (job, social life, bodily functions) to allow for me to spend much of the week in the dark, watching movies? How do I give it my all and not get sick on day four or five? Those…Read More

Summer Film Festivals: Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, OUTeast Queer Film Festival, The “Summer of Superheroes”

June 8, 2015 flawintheiris

You go for weeks and weeks without anything special going on around film locally, and then this week we get two festivals! The Halifax Filmmakers Festival takes place on Wednesday June 10 though Saturday the 13th. Here's the Festival trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQcmCPecxi8 It highlights fiercely independent, international, and local feature and short films, including art and experimental pictures, with screenings taking…Read More

Talking Star Wars and Avengers on CBC Radio One

May 5, 2015 flawintheiris

On Monday, May 4th—now the official Star Wars day, what with the bells of the Peace Tower at Parliament Hill ringing selections from John Williams' anthemic score—I joined Dalhousie professors Jason Haslam and Jacqueline Warwick, and host Stephanie Domet, on Mainstreet, the CBC Radio One afternoon show, to talk movie franchises, reboots, and fantasy adaptations. We…Read More

10 Great Movies for Canadian Film Day

April 28, 2015 flawintheiris

It's National Canadian Film Day. This is a great initiative to encourage more people to watch and value Canadian movies. It's important, especially now when our politicians are looking to disembowel the industries that create these stories. If we want them, we have to fight for them. We have to shout about how they're important…Read More

Cast No Shadow: Q-and-A with director Christian Sparkes

April 1, 2015 flawintheiris

Opening Friday, April 3, in Halifax is Cast No Shadow, an already award-winning feature from Newfoundland. It took a host of gongs at the Atlantic Film Festival: Best Atlantic Film, Best Director (Christian Sparkes), Best Screenplay (Joel Thomas Hynes), Best Actress (Mary-Colin Chisholm), Best Actor (Percy Hynes White), and Best Cinematography (Scott McLellan). It was…Read More

In Cinemas. March 20, 2015 — ’71, The Gunman, Relative Happiness, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Do You Believe?

March 20, 2015 flawintheiris

'71 A bit of a surprise to me how much I really liked this movie, a surprise because it arrives with so little buzz. It's set during the Troubles in Belfast, about a British soldier who gets lost in the Irish Catholic side of town after a street riot. Not to be missed, you'll find…Read More

John Dunsworth in Santa Quest — Doing, believing, and the meaning of Santa Claus

December 18, 2014 flawintheiris

John Dunsworth has gone to the trouble of printing out photos of himself as Jim Lahey—the character he plays on Trailer Park Boys—passed out and sprawling, with a large stain on the crotch of his familiar tan pants. Next to him, shirtless as always, is Pat Roach as Randy. These photos are for autograph-seekers. But…Read More

Q and A with Kung Fu Elliot writer/directors Matthew Bauckman and Jaret Belliveau

November 25, 2014 flawintheiris

Screening at the Outlier Film Festival on Saturday is Kung Fu Elliot, an amazing new film—and Best Documentary Feature-winner at Slamdance—about a guy named Elliot "White Lightning" Scott. He's a Halifax-based filmmaker and actor who aspires to be Canada's answer to Chuck Norris, a genuine cinematic action hero. He says he's won martial arts competitions. He says he…Read More