Disney's Not So Scary Halloween Party

Real magic at Walt Disney World

W. Andrew Powell
GATEKeeper's Blog
Walt Disney World is almost like nothing I could have expected. My wife and family had prepared for our trip, and we had watched some videos on YouTube even to get ready, but the experience is something else entirely. It's almost everything you could ask for in a vacation.
Robbie Amell for ARQ

#TIFF16: ‘Below Her Mouth’, ‘Free Fire’, and early highlights from the festival

W. Andrew Powell
GATEKeeper's Blog
Happy Day 3, TIFFers! It's one of my favorite times of year in Toronto, and the film festival is in full swing. For press and publicists, mind you, it's more like week three, because of all of the pre-festival screenings, but it's hard to complain about that when it makes the front-end of TIFF so much more productive. I rarely get time to screen much in the first few days of TIFF, but that's usually because I'm interviewing, and there have been some good ones already.
Marilyn Ann Powell

Saying goodbye to my mother

W. Andrew Powell
GATEKeeper's Blog
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My earliest memories of my mother, Marilyn, are when I was three or four and my parents and I were living in a basement apartment in Saint John. We would later move to a little village an hour's drive away, to be with my grandparents, but in Saint John my mother was naturally the centre of my universe, and I still remember how she helped build up my love for things that would always be important to me. She was nurturing and caring, and she loved her family and friends deeply.
Hurricane Bianca

Weekly: Bianca Del Rio, Diageo cocktails, summer planning, and Air Transat

W. Andrew Powell
GATEKeeper's Blog
Surprise! It's June and it's busy! I always know what to expect, and I won't complain because it's always a fun, action-packed month full of adventures. Last week started it all off with a few highlights, including the screening for Now You See Me 2, actress Ellen Page and director Patricia Rozema in town to talk about Into The Forest, director Allan Ungar for his film Gridlocked, and star Bianca Del Rio and director Matt Kugelman for Hurricane Bianca at Inside Out Film Festival, to name a few things.
Kristian Bruun and Ennis Esmer

Weekly: Emily VanCamp, Taste Canada, ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ and CMW

W. Andrew Powell
GATEKeeper's Blog
This week in the blog you get two for the price of one as I catch up on blogging about what I've been up to for both last week, and this week. There has been a lot going on, including an interview with Emily VanCamp, screening X-Men: Apocalypse, interviews with Cabbie Richards and two stars from How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town, a Hudson's Bay x Taste Canada event, and lots, lots more.