Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
We take a look at some of the selections from this year’s Breakthroughs Film Festival, the only screening series of its kind in Canada to look exclusively at the short …
Beast, writer-director Michael Pearce’s unlikely mash-up of a rural romantic drama and a serial killer film, is haunting, disturbing, and remarkably nuanced.
On an entertainment level, Incredibles 2 is the most satisfying major studio blockbuster of the summer movie season thus far. On a storytelling level, it’s a sequel that’s virtually on …
We catch up with British writer-director Michael Pearce to talk about his debut feature Beast (opening in select Canadian cities on Friday, June 15), a moral and thrilling relationship drama …
Plodding and curiously inert, the Canadian drama Prodigals stitches together two casually addressed and underbaked storylines into an overlong slog.
Although comparisons to the similarly queer themed teenage rom-com Love, Simon from earlier this year are inevitable, writer-director Craig Johnson’s raunchier Netflix original film Alex Strangelove has more in common …
Ari Aster’s phenomenal debut feature Hereditary – a film deeply indebted to a number of genre classics – is best watched by approaching it as cold and unassuming as possible.
Director Matthew Soychet’s The Accountant of Auschwitz, an unsettling, but comprehensive look at what’s destined to be one of the last high profile trials of Nazi war criminals, asks viewers …
Alain Ducasse is a big deal in the culinary world , but it’s hard to believe that the approach and style adopted by French filmmaker Gilles de Maistre in the …
Canadian filmmaker Antoine Bourges’ subtly moving debut feature Fail to Appeal is so confident, lived in, and well researched that one would be forgiven if they mistook it for a …
