Articles by Allison Outhit

How to Buy a Van

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2007

So you’ve got dates booked across the country and all you need are wheels. Buy or rent? Do the math: downtown Halifax is about 6,310 kilome...

Digital Rights Management, Part I

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2007

Copyright has always been a bit of a slippery concept, because it’s about intangible, intellectual property rather than, say, sandwiches —...

Paris, Je T'aime

Various Directors

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

This collection of 22 short films looks at the meaning of love in the City of Light. It’s an uneven work: on the downside, there are tired...

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Sophie Fiennes

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

Don’t waste your nickels on tuition: this profound and entertaining three-part documentary is a film studies lecture that could put a few...

Bunny Chow

John Barker

PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

Bunny chow is a favourite treat in Johannesburg; it’s a loaf of white bread with its guts pulled out and stuffed with a spicy mix of meat a...

For Your Consideration

Christopher Guest

PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2007

Sadly, the arse is out of her on this fourth collaboration between Guest and his go-to cast of improvateers. Following the comedy gold form...

The Holiday

Nancy Meyers

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

Movie pitches often start life as a one-line synopsis; the catchy ones can sell a whole picture. The Holiday’s probably went like this: an...

Brick

Rian Johnson

PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2007

Written straight out of film school, Brick is an unusually well conceived and executed first feature. Riffing on Dashiell Hamnett by way of...