Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Although the lion’s share of praise for Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín’s Jackie will be rightfully shone on lead actress Natalie Portman’s tremendous leading performance, it’s an all around exceptional look …
Jessica Chastain once again plays a hardnosed, take-no-prisoners professional type in Miss Sloane, a well meaning, agreeable tale of do-gooders, master manipulators, and profit driven evil types trying to navigate …
The martial arts extravaganza Sword Master comes with one heck of a pedigree behind it, and thankfully it lives up to what came before it, offering up one of the …
If you’ve been lucky enough to catch late Japanese actor turned filmmaker Jûzô Itami’s 1985 cult classic Tampopo, you’ll know that it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen. If you haven’t …
We talk with veteran Australian television and commercial director Garth Davis about his dramatic feature film debut, Lion, the incredible true story of one man’s search for the birth family …
The weekend of December 2nd might the quietest one for large scale new releases in Canada this year, so today we’re going to take a look at six independent releases …
Canadian filmmaker and actor Joey Klein talks to us about his debut feature, the romantic drama The Other Half, starring real life couple Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen, and what …
In the second half of our look at controversial, prolific German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder – the subject of a near complete TIFF career retrospective – we look at the …
Now entering its fifth landmark year, the all Canadian genre film festival Blood in the Snow – going down at Cineplex Yonge and Dundas November 25th to 27th – firmly …
With only three features under his belt as a director, Kenneth Lonergan has already amassed quite the reputable resume as a screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker, one that continues to grow …
