Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
One of the most unnecessarily mean spirited, unfunny, unassured, and cynical comedies in quite some time, Little takes a tried and true genre formula that often yields feel good results …
A work of contemplative art that packs its small, unassuming, and intimately composed frame to bursting with unanswerable questions about man’s place in the universe, Canadian filmmaker Andrea Bussmann’s avant …
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy isn’t specifically a sequel to the well loved and lucrative, Donnie Yen starring, Chinese martial arts franchise, but rather more of a like-minded, only ever-so-slightly …
The Brink is lightly critical of right wing political strategist Steve Bannon’s desire to spread isolationism around the world, but it also unwittingly gives the man a platform.
TIFF Bell Lightbox hosted a star-studded red carpet last Saturday for writer and director Natty Zavitz’s new feature film, Acquainted, and it was a home-grown affair from the cast to …
An enjoyably casual stroll down one of music history’s more literal memory lanes, Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann’s latest documentary, Carmine Street Guitars, looks at one of New York City’s most …
A landmark achievement in the history of indigenous cinema, SGaawaay K’uuna – or Edge of the Knife in English – is a mesmerizing film crafted by true artists, performed largely …
Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s skillful, spooky, and ultimately superfluous updating of Pet Sematary is a film that recycles about 85% of its big screen predecessor wholesale with modest improvements …
If you’re fatigued by the glut superhero movies (and box office numbers would suggest that you’d be in the minority of the filmgoing population if you were), Shazam!, the latest …
The title of Aaron Kunkel’s documentary The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story suggests a look back at a time not so long ago when one man cornered the …
