Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
A gleefully off-beat mash-up of teen angst, jabs at yuletide cheer, horror movie gore, and show-stopping song and dance numbers, Anna and the Apocalypse runs through a handful of dissimilar …
Documentarians Alyssa Fedele and Zachary Fink’s The Rescue List, which screens this weekend at the Human Rights Film Festival in Toronto, brings to light an often overlooked form of child …
The balanced, emotionally charged, and indispensable documentary Charm City, which screens in Toronto this weekend as part of the seventh annual Human Rights Film Festival, should be mandatory viewing for …
The seventh annual Human Rights Film Festival kicks off this Friday at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema with a screening of the documentary TransMilitary, an excellent look at the …
An insightful and thought provoking (but not exactly dramatic) look at one of the biggest names in product design, Gary Hustwit’s documentary Rams profiles a man that’s frequently credited with …
Master German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta blends biography, analysis, and appreciation in her documentary Searching for Ingmar Bergman, a look at a fellow famous auteur that refuses to give in …
While it isn’t as perceptive, entertaining, or insightful of a documentary about talented musical impersonators as it could’ve been, Barry Lank’s Almost Almost Famous does an okay job weaving together …
A detailed, but dry and sanitized look at one of the most controversial and disgraced figures in media and political history, Alexis Bloom’s documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of …
Harkening back to a form of thriller that’s been largely absent since the mid-90s, Hospitality isn’t particularly deep, insightful, or original, but it strikes as a nice change of pace …
We catch up with actors Sarah Swire and Christopher Leveaux about their roles in the unique comedy/holiday/musical/zombie movie Anna and the Apocalypse, opening in select Canadian cities this Friday.
