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Cape Breton Island Film Series – The Interrupters, November 24; Win Win revisited
I have a confession to make. There is something about a “feel good” movie that absolutely makes my skin crawl. A creeping sense of nausea sets in, and at...
Cape Breton Island Film Series – Cave of Forgotten Dreams, November 3; Meek’s Cutoff revisited
Meek’s Cutoff, I am happy to report, is not so different from the video game Oregon Trail, which most of us played on MacIntosh computers in 1992 and haven’t...
Film Review: Down the Road Again
“And I’m goin’ down the road, boys / Seeking what I’m owed / And I know it must get better / If far enough I go.” Bruce Cockburn’s...
Cape Breton Island Film Series – Meek’s Cutoff, October 27; Submarine revisited
Last week’s screening of Submarine gave us a healthy dose of life lessons, delivered with the dry, awkward wit of young Oliver Tate. Oliver’s world is...
Cape Breton Island Film Series – Submarine, October 20
This week we find ourselves nostalgic for the kind of overwrought, hormonally-charged melodrama that could only be satisfied by the term “coming of age”. The...
Cape Breton Island Film Series – The Trip, October 6; Page One revisited
I have to admit that I really enjoyed Page One: Inside the New York Times. I was skeptical: an embittered journalism school drop out and ex-unpaid publishing...
Cape Breton Island Film Series – Page One, September 29; Jane Eyre revisited
If falling in love is as terrifying as I think it is, then Jane Eyre must truly be the greatest love story ever told. Only here, betwixt the tangled trees of gothic...
Cape Breton Island Film Series – Jane Eyre, September 22; Project Nim revisited
If you missed last week’s screening of Project Nim, I’m not gonna lie, you probably feel a bit better about the world, and yourself, than those of us who attended....
Matt MacIsaac’s “Victim” screens at Atlantic Film Festival Shorts Gala, September 20
“I’ve always been doing something creative. I started drawing when I was young. Then started playing music. Now I’m doing film. These things all...
Cape Breton Island Film Series: “Project Nim” – Thursday, September 15
(Project Nim follows the life of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee raised as a human in the 1970s and '80s) Attention film lovers and aspiring critics — the Cape...