🍿 SPECIAL: Fleapit Cinema presents Rites of Passage: A Miryam Charles Retrospective, a selection of eight extraordinary shorts from the Haitian-Canadian director of CETTE MAISON. Jan 15, 7pm at Museum MNH, feat. a post-screening Q+A w/Charles: eventbrite.com/e/fleapit-cine…

➡️ HOLDOVER: Still playing @ Scotiabank: WE BURY THE DEAD, a horror thriller starring Daisy Ridley as a woman who volunteers to retrieve the victims of a catastrophic incident.

🎞️ STREAMING: A Carbon Arc Cinema selection for 2025, Boris Lojkine's award-winning SOULEYMANE'S STORY follows a Guinean immigrant delivering food in Paris while preparing for his asylum interview. It's now streaming free on @kanopy with your Halifax Public Libraries card: kanopy.com/en/halifax/vid…

🎟️🎟️ Tickets for Propeller Arcade's Jan 28 screening of ALIENS on sale noon this Sun (Jan 11) at Propeller Brewing Co Cold Beer Store, Gottingen St! (If it sells out, tickets will go on sale for a Jan 29 second screening!)

➡️ HOLDOVER: Big Jim Cameron's worldwide box office domination continues with AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, still playing at: Scotiabank (IMAX 3D + ScreenX + D-BOX 3D + 3D + 2D) Dartmouth (D-BOX 3D + 3D + 2D) Park Lane (3D + 2D) Sackville (3D + 2D)

🎞️ STREAMING: Dwayne Johnson stars as MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's Silver Lion-winning solo directorial debut THE SMASHING MACHINE, co-starring Emily Blunt. It's now streaming free on Hoopla Digital with your Halifax Public Libraries card: hoopladigital.com/movie/the-smas…

🎞️ STREAMING: Possibly the funniest (IYKYK) movie of 2025, FRIENDSHIP stars Tim Robinson as a dad whose attempts at forming a bond with a new neighbour (Paul Rudd) go spectacularly sideways. Now streaming free on @HooplaDigital w/your Halifax Public Libraries card: hoopladigital.com/movie/friendsh…

🎟️🚫 Tickets for the Jan 28 + 29 screenings of ALIENS at Propeller Arcade now sold out!

➡️ HOLDOVER: You can still catch Timothée Chalamet's Golden Globe-winning performance in MARTY SUPREME at local theatres (including Tues cheap night): screening @ Park Lane, Scotiabank, Dartmouth + Sackville.

🎟️🎟️ Don't dawdle on tickets for Carbon Arc Cinema's Nova Scotia Retro Film Festo, coming up at the end of the month! MARGARET'S MUSEUM already 75% sold, and HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN is 50% sold! carbonarc.ca/tickets

📽️ SPECIAL: Carbon Arc Cinema adds a second screening of the 1995 Helena Bonham Carter drama MARGARET'S MUSEUM, Sun, Feb 1 as part of Nova Scotia Retro Film Festo. 🎟️🎟️ now on sale! carbonarc.ca/tickets/margar…

📽️ OPENING: The latest from Park Chan-wook (DECISION TO LEAVE, OLDBOY), the dark comedy-thriller NO OTHER CHOICE stars Lee Byung-hun as a man who takes extreme measures after being laid off after decades at his company. Starts Friday (finally) @ Scotiabank.

🍿 SPECIAL: Peter Jackson's THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy returns to Park Lane starting Friday, with extended editions of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, and THE RETURN OF THE KING each getting a handful of screenings through the end of January.

📽️ OPENING: Shot back-to-back with last summer's franchise reanimator, 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE stars Ralph Fiennes + Jack O'Connell in continuation of the post-apocalyptic zombie saga. Starts today @ Scotiabank (adding D-BOX Fri) + Dartmouth; Fri @ Park Lane + Sackville.

🍿 SPECIAL: Game over, man? Not so fast! After two sellouts, Propeller Arcade has added a THIRD screening of the 1986 sci-fi action masterpiece ALIENS (from a 35mm scan)! Tues, Jan 27 — 🎟️🎟️ on sale this Sun @ noon, Propeller Brewing Co Gottingen Cold Beer Store!

📽️ OPENING: Director Gus Van Sant (TO DIE FOR) dramatizes a tense 1977 hostage standoff in DEAD MAN'S WIRE, starring Bill Skarsgård + Dacre Montgomery. Now playing exclusive to Park Lane.

📽️ NOW PLAYING: A very Ralph Fiennes week at the multiplex with the latest 28...LATER film and now THE CHORAL, a historical drama starring Fiennes as the new choirmaster for a group of young men in Yorkshire during WWI. Now playing exclusive to Scotiabank.

🔮 UPCOMING: Celebrate Valentine's Day with a scream: Carbon Arc Cinema presents the Sydney Mines-shot 1981 cult slasher MY BLOODY VALENTINE, Fri, Feb 13 @ 6:30pm. 🎟️🎟️ now on sale! carbonarc.ca/tickets/my-blo…

🍿 SPECIAL: Tonight (Mon) @ Scotiabank: the next Cineplex Monday Surprise Premiere, this time in IMAX 3D! Spin the wheel of chance at 7pm: cineplex.com/en/movie/monda…

🚨 Merely a handful of tickets left for Propeller Arcade's Jan 27 screening of ALIENS! Get moving!