Set during the 1990s, times of sanctions and deprivation in the years after the first Gulf War, nine-year-old Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef) has been chosen by her teacher to make a cake to celebrate ...

On Friday I was once again on the CBC Nova Scotia morning radio show, Information Morning, speaking with guest-host Preston ...

Some of the best scenes are when Ray invites Colin to join him with his gang of gay bikers (including the acting debut of The ...

If you want to know why, ask Renny Harlin about Cutthroat Island or Roman Polanski about Pirates — wildly expensive movies, poorly reviewed and received. These pictures are a gamble. And to this movie ...

As usual, Jarmusch brings together an excellent cast. We get so little of Tom Waits the musician these days, but it’s always a pleasure to see him act. He’s father to Adam Driver and Mayim Bialik, who ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Gates and gateways are powerful symbols in our culture. Think of the gated community, gateway drugs, the pearly gates, or the Atlantic Gateway Project. Well, maybe not the latter but you get the idea.

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 ...

Directed by John Frankenheimer | Written by George Axelrod, Edward Anhalt, and John Hopkins, based on the Robert Ludlum novel | 112 min | | Prime I’ve seen a lot of the movies Michael Caine made in ...

Built by CN in 1928, the train station and Hotel Nova Scotian were the final pieces of the Railcut and Ocean Terminals project. The images above are aerial views from 1931, and are from The Richard ...

Thanks to an article in the New York Times, I’ve learned Karen Kingsbury is the new Queen of Christian Fiction (American-styled), taking her rapidly written bestsellers and turning them into TV series ...