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Keep track of movies opening and closing (and streaming), plus one-off screenings in #Halifax, Nova Scotia. // DM with any screening announcements!
📽️ 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.
January 17, 2026 at 10:16 PM
🍿 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 Gottingen Cold Beer Store!
January 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
📽️ 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.
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
🍿 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.
January 15, 2026 at 11:57 AM
📽️ 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.
January 14, 2026 at 12:09 PM
📽️ SPECIAL: Carbon Arc 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! www.carbonarc.ca/tickets/marg...
January 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
➡️ 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.
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
🎞️ STREAMING: Possibly the funniest (IYKYK) movie of 2025, FRIENDSHIP stars Tim Robinson as a suburban dad whose attempts at forming a bond with a new neighbour (Paul Rudd) go spectacularly sideways.

Streaming free on Hoopla w/your Halifax Public Libraries card: www.hoopladigital.com/movie/friend...
January 11, 2026 at 5:22 PM
🎞️ 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 with your Halifax Public Libraries card: www.hoopladigital.com/movie/the-sm...
January 10, 2026 at 7:44 PM
🎞️ STREAMING: A Carbon Arc 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: www.kanopy.com/en/halifax/v...
January 9, 2026 at 8:09 PM
➡️ 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.
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
🍿 SPECIAL: The latest entry in the (very) long-running action anime franchise, LUPIN THE IIIRD: THE MOVIE — THE IMMORTAL BLOODLINE screens Fri-Sun exclusive to Park Lane.
January 9, 2026 at 12:51 AM
🎞️ STREAMING: Rose Byrne is closing in on an Oscar nom for her performance in IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, an acclaimed drama from director Mary Bronstein.

Stream it free on Hoopla with your Halifax Public Libraries card and get to work on that awards ballot: www.hoopladigital.com/movie/if-i-h...
January 8, 2026 at 9:06 PM
📽️ OPENING: A South Korean mother travels to Winnipeg to tend to her injured daughter and makes some surprising discoveries in THE MOTHER AND THE BEAR, a comedy-drama from Johnny Ma (the breakout OLD STONE).

Starts Fri exclusive to Park Lane.
January 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
📽️ OPENING: A tropical vacation is interrupted by the strange behaviour of a family's usually-friendly chimpanzee in PRIMATE, a new horror movie from director Johannes Roberts.

Starts today @ Scotiabank, Fri @ Park Lane, Dartmouth + Sackville.
January 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
🍿 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 the Museum of Natural History, feat. a post-screening Q+A w/Charles: www.eventbrite.com/e/fleapit-ci...
January 8, 2026 at 12:22 AM
🍿 SPECIAL: Jim Henson's fantasy adventure LABYRINTH (starring David Bowie, gone 10 years this week) returns to Park Lane this weekend for 40th-anniversary screenings, Thurs-Sun.
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
📽️ OPENING: Bradley Cooper directs Will Arnett + Laura Dern in IS THIS THING ON?, a comedic drama about a newly-separated couple navigating new purpose, family, and friendship.

Starts Fri exclusive to Park Lane.
January 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM
🍿 SPECIAL: Fritz Lang's visionary silent masterpiece METROPOLIS screens this Tues, Jan 6 with a live, improvised electronic score to kick off the 2026 Upstream Music Open Waters Festival.

7:30pm @ King's College Alumni Hall, 🎟️🎟️ $20 (suggested): upstreammusic.org/event/open-w...
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
🍿 SPECIAL: Propeller Arcade's January screening is (a 35mm digital scan! of) ALIENS, James Cameron's unmatched 1986 sci-fi sequel, with lone survivor Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and a group of space marines in an increasingly sticky situation.

Screens Jan 28, 🎟️🎟️ on sale Jan 11!
January 2, 2026 at 3:59 PM
🍿 SPECIAL: January's Thrillema screening is THE GOLDEN CHILD, the 1986 Eddie Murphy adventure comedy about a private detective enlisted for a mysterious new job.

Wed, Jan 21 at the Museum of Natural History — FREE 🎟️🎟️ available at Strange Adventures Prince St. (max two per person).
January 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
🔮 UPCOMING: The great Jim Jarmusch (STRANGER THAN PARADISE) won the Golden Lion at Venice for FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, a new anthology film about families starring Tom Waits + Cate Blanchett.

Screens @ Park Lane Sat, Jan 11 (with likely more screenings to come).
December 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
📽️ NOW PLAYING: Musical biopic SONG SUNG BLUE, based on the documentary of the same name, follows two performers (Kate Hudson + Hugh Jackman) who form a Neil Diamond tribute band.

Screening @ Scotiabank + Dartmouth.
December 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
📽️ NOW PLAYING: Paul Rudd + Jack Black star in a meta comedy-horror update of '90s creature feature ANACONDA, in which a bunch of pals are trying to remake ANACONDA, and it goes terribly.

Screening @ Scotiabank, Dartmouth, Park Lane + Sackville.
December 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🎞️ STREAMING: It's Boxing Day. You've burned through the normie movies. What now?

I suggest Richard Linklater's 2024 feature HIT MAN, with the perfect duo of Glen Powell + Adria Arjona.

Charm. Chemistry. Streaming free @kanopy.com w/your Halifax Public Libraries card: www.kanopy.com/en/halifax/v...
December 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM