Welcome to Halifax Nights and Sights. I hope you find something of interest to you. Halifax, Nova Scotia on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean is one of Canada's finest provinces.
If you were one of the poor unfortunate souls that had to go to work in Halifax today, you got to enjoy poorly cleared roads and sidewalks, lots of blowing snow, cold wind, slippery driving and walking....and when you got home at night...40 centimeters of snow was waiting for you....and the forecast is calling for a couple more centimeters tonight....yeeha....be alright if you worked somewhere that had snow days!
I grabbed a few snapshots of Halifax snowstorm this morning on my phone camera....here they are....
What a great morning to get up and trudge off to work...not that I am complaining...at least I have work.....
I would much prefer strolling to work on a day like this....nothing like autumn in Halifax....
It looks like Col Russell William's arrest in Trenton, Ontario has sparked some further attention to our cold case files here in Halifax. The news is reporting that his arrest and charges sparking a cold case review of unsolved murders in places where he was previously stationed. One of those places includes Nova Scotia, when he was stationed at the Shearwater base. I've written before about the high number of unsolved murders in Halifax, so who knows, this might provide some answers. Time will tell......
We just got home from the movies, at the Empire Theatres - Dartmouth Crossing, specifically the new Mel Gibson thriller, Edge of Darkness, starring....well....Mel Gibson.
In Edge of Darkness, Mel plays veteran Boston Police Department homicide detective Thomas Craven. When his 20 something nuclear engineer daughter, Emma ( Bojana Novakovic) is gunned down on the steps of his home, Craven thinks he was the target and sets out to find the killer. He soon discovers otherwise and enters into the mysterious world of corporate and government cover-ups. The movie also features some brilliant acting by Ray Winstone, a 52 year old British actor who plays a mysterious somewhat shadowy CIA operative. I think that both Gibson and Winstone, play their parts well, both creating memorable characters.
Edge of Darkness is based on an award winning British television series from the 1980's.
Gibson plays a great detective and revengeful father, his age is just right for a role like this, his acting, I think is unsurpassed in this one. The plot and the movie a little difficult to follow by times, as I found the dialogue sometimes a little low, and both Gibson and CIA operative Darius Jedburgh, (Ray Winstone) talk with an accent, which I have to admit, I occasionally found difficult to make out what they were saying. However, if that is my only complaint, it's not a bad one. The movie is fast paced, very serious, and a little dark at times, especially with some of the flashbacks Craven has of his daughter, as well as some scenes when he hears her voice after she is dead.
Here is the trailer from Edge Of Darkness.
Edge of Darkness is playing at Empire Theaters, here is a list of the theatres and the Edge of Darkness movie times. Go see it......
Empire Theatres - Empire 8, Park Lane
5657 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, NS
4:00 6:40 9:20
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