Category: Arts

When Celine Dion refused to play the Halifax Commons last November, the uproar from the East Coast city was swift and punishing.

It’s Oscar season again and the films competing for this year’s statuettes are as wildly diverse a group as the Academy has seen this millennium. While all of the films in competition are deserving of recognition, category by category it is not all that hard, in most cases, to separate the wheat from the chaff.

The films are about sex and sensuality, but the aim is to stimulate the mind as well as the body.