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EXCITING NEWS! We've just launched the 2025 Local Wishlist and we can't wait for you to take a look! 🎁 Great local gift ideas to check off every single name on your list. The holidays start NOW! ❄️✨

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November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Never mind the remake, what did Carsten think of the original 1987 version of The Running Man? His thoughts in From The Vault:

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November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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NEW: Sloan live on the Light House Arts Centre stage in Halifax. The HAFILAX Show Thoughts & Shots:

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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews Predator Badlands, with Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and Elle Fanning. Another rote sci-fi franchise entry:

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November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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A Gaspereau Valley building where the vertical is emphasized — any fan of Westerns will recognize the look. Stephen Archibald enlightens us all about stepped gables:

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#novascotia #architecture #design #history #noticing
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Hedda is a good looking picture, and Hoss and Thompson are both terrific, but the over-torqued style tends to obscure the film’s themes rather than illuminate them, says Carsten:

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November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Movie talk on CBC Radio in Nova Scotia. Carsten Knox reviews Nuremberg and Eden on The Knox Office:

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November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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What better way to honour the spirit of the legendary frontman of The Tragically Hip than to convene with like-minded fans and revel in those beloved tunes. The Fabulously Rich on HAFILAX:

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November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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NEW: Looking back at The Running Man (1987), with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, and Yaphet Kotto. Carsten Knox's From The Vault:

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November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Stephen Archibald's very personal experience with a beautiful place of commemoration and remembrance. A Seaside Cemetery:

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#novascotia #community #history #noticing
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Carsten Knox on the latest edition of CBC Radio's The Knox Office, chatting about Eden and Nuremberg:

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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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NEW: The Fabulously Rich at 2037 Gottingen. Another HAFILAX Show Shots:

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November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Hedda is best at being a portrait of a desperately unhappy woman looking to exert some control over her future at any cost, says Carsten, coaxing a complex, intense performance out of the lead, Tessa Thompson:

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November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A celebration of small in Weymouth demonstrates that you don’t actually need steps in your gable. But if you'd like to see some WITH steps, Stephen Archibald has you covered in this post from a few years back:

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#novascotia #architecture #design #history
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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NEW: Nuremberg and Eden. The latest edition of The Knox Office on CBC Radio, with Carsten Knox:

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November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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HAFILAX's Trev was late to the Rich Aucoin party, until one night in 2023 when it all clicked and he was awash in synth, streamers and sweat. Review and photos from the end of the parachute era, at Sommo Fest:

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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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NEW: Carsten Knox reviews Hedda, with Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, and Imogen Poots. Nia DaCosta's modern update on Ibsen:

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November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Michael Marcagi onstage at Sommo Fest. The HAFILAX Show Shots:

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November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A reconsideration of the best movies from a decade and a half of watching. Carsten's top movies in 15 years of FLAW IN THE IRIS:

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November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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It won't surprise you to know that Stephen Archibald notices scaffolding, because he doesn't miss much. But you might be surprised by how much more interesting scaffold is than you thought:

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#design #construction #noticing
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Still in cinemas, but now also available on Netflix: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, with Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, and Mia Goth. Carsten says it's monstrously beautiful, but shambles:

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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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What better way to shut down the opening day of Sommo than with one final parachute party? Rich Aucoin, in this HAFILAX Show Thoughts & Shots:

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November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Carsten thought it was worth going back to his top movie every year and see whether he would still choose it as the year's best. Or would something else from that year take the crown?

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November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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St. Paul and the Broken Bones dazzled on the Sommo Mainstage towards the tail end of Day One. More in this HAFILAX Show Shots:

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November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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New on Crave: A Complete Unknown, with Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, and Edward Norton. It's all new to me, like some mystery:

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November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM