Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Documentarian Penny Lane’s Hail Satan? takes a look at a new breed of social activist that disguises itself as a church of sorts and claims to worship Christianity’s most evil …
Overblown and cranked to eleven at all times, the ludicrous home invasion thriller The Intruder isn’t a great movie, but it’s a great time at the movies.
UglyDolls is an animated adventure based on a toy line that’s waning in popularity, with a nice message about accepting one’s own imperfections that’s aimed squarely at kids who still …
Take The American President, Notting Hill, and Pretty Woman and put them into a blender with some modern political subtext, copious amounts of illegal substances, and a handful of jokes …
A bland, flavourless mash of spy thriller, family drama, and historical romance cliches stitched together without any sort of regard for larger social or dramatic context, Red Joan is a …
Well executed and performed, but ultimately hollow and meaningless, filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s look back at the crimes of serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile …
Dragged Across Concrete, the latest slow-burn from still emerging American genre filmmaker S. Craig Zahler, is well in line with the writer-director-composer’s previous efforts, and it assuredly won’t sway any …
Boasting a solid premise and an intriguing main character that one could build an outstanding short film around, the survival thriller Body at Brighton Rock struggles to pad itself out …
The politicizing of popular culture takes centre stage in the droll Israeli comedy Tel Aviv on Fire, an appropriately crowd offering that doesn’t speak down to the messiness of its …
Filmmaker Jennifer Deschamps’ focused and impressionable Inside Lehman Brothers looks at the collapse of one of America’s most prominent lending firms from the viewpoints of men and women who dared …
