I was also asked for a favourite Christmas movie, which is tough enough to call — I went with Peter O’Toole and Katherine ...

The awards season is in full swing, and this movie — which I missed in theatres, it’s now available to rent — has been given ...

Sunday evening is the Golden Globes, a Hollywood event that’s slowly emerging from a recent history of scandal to be a real ...

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 ...

The other day, I was walking on May Street in the North End and noticed this house. A narrow passage (sometimes called a horse walk) pierced the line of row houses to provide access to the backyard, ...

For CBC Information Morning’s Make The Season Kind show on Friday I was given the mission to highlight movies that are about kindness and generosity. So I chose one seasonal movie that I love but ...

Recently the design for the redevelopment of the old World Trade and Convention Centre was presented to the city’s Design Review Committee. My attention was attracted by the proposed changes to the ...

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 ...

The Secret Agent is a deconstructed political thriller from Brazil, but almost as if the filmmaker was inspired by Robert Altman, certainly the broad palate of American films of the 1970s. His ...

I tried to remember what it was like to go back to school but I couldn’t get beyond “Glad that’s long past.” As for excitement about new school supplies, I was more apt to feel anxiety that I had the ...

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 — ...

Written and Directed by James Gunn, based on the DC Comics character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster | 129 min | | Crave Welcome to the new James Gunniverse of DC Comics heroes, replacing the ...