Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
The expertly performed and well mounted drama Being 17 would have a lot more impact if it didn’t play so coy with the audience’s expectations of the obvious. Veteran French …
Part drama, part procedural, part musical, and part documentary, Rufus Norris’ cinematic adaptation of National Theatre’s London Road is a hard film to peg down, but a consistently engaging and …
For those who like their sleaze with a thin layer of prestige, a great leading performance, and a director with a knowledge of all things dirty and psychosexual, Paul Verhoeven’s …
We catch up to remarkable and humble sixteen year old French filmmaker Nathan Ambrosioni about his second major feature film, the horror thriller Therapy, now streaming exclusively on Shudder Canada.
We talk to actors Haley Lu Richardson, Hayden Szeto, and Blake Jenner about what sets their latest film, The Edge of Seventeen, apart from other teen movies, what their on-set …
We catch up with rising Canadian filmmaking star Stella Meghie to talk about her debut feature Jean of the Joneses and making a subtly witty film about a dysfunctional family, …
Veteran Israel filmmaker, documentarian, and journalist Ilan Ziv has covered a wide array of difficult subjects, from the holocaust to capitalism to religious zealotry to human rights abuses, but few …
The fantastical element of writer/director Jeff Nichols’ most recent efforts is jettisoned for his latest and best effort to date, the historical romance Loving. It’s a stripped down, heavily internalized, …
As Reel Asian kicks off their 20th anniversary year this week, we take a look at five selections from this year’s celebration of Asian cinema, including opening night film Soul …
We catch up with seventeen year old American actor Markees Christmas about his first major starring role in the indie comedy Morris from America, performing alongside Craig Robinson.
