Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
An amusing summertime diversion, the buddy action picture Heads of State won’t be heralded for its originality or artistic value, but it’s a fun way to spend a couple of …
An intense post-apocalyptic survival thriller with a strong sense of identity and purpose, R.T. Thorne’s first feature 40 Acres is a genre movie revelation. It’s an intense and bleak film …
Men of War is the overlooked Dolph Lundgren and John Sayles collaboration you never knew you needed or wanted. Initially marketed as just another dumb. macho action flick and dumped …
The 1923 silent drama A Woman of Paris is one of filmmaker and screen icon Charlie Chaplin’s most fascinating efforts. More of a critical success than a commercial smash at …
Instead of amplifying everything that made its first instalment a fun, campy surprise, M3gan 2.0 plods along, trying to do something new and risking audience alienation at every turn. Less …
The F in F1 The Movie stands for formula, and this latest effort from visually dynamic filmmaker Joseph Kosinski adheres to the basics at every turn from a storytelling standpoint. …
Cult writer-director Jeff Lieberman’s 1977 thriller Blue Sunshine captures a specific moment in cultural history that – like many great movies – has found a renewed bit of relevancy. A …
Would I ever recommend a film that I don’t particularly like or enjoy? Strangely enough, that answer is yes more often than one would think. Even in films that miss …
Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 thriller Side Street is an all time film noir classic, a sterling example of the genre that dominated cinemas around the midpoint of the twentieth century. …
Writer-director Meelad Moaphi’s first feature His Father’s Son is a restrained, but powerful look at familial secrets. Based around a plot and grand reveal that lesser filmmakers would play for …
