Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
American Honey, filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s sprawling, warts and all look at modern Americana, is both a staggering achievement and a bit too unwieldy for its own good.
We take a look at three of the films playing the 2016 Toronto After Dark Film Festival: the foreign language horror movie Under the Shadow, the South Korean zombie thriller …
We take a look at Shadow World, Disturbing the Peace, and Almost Sunrise, three films that are must-sees from this year’s 16th annual Reelworld Film Festival.
The collection of horror shorts found in Minutes Past Midnight is a lot stronger than many similarly minded anthologies offer up.
The beauty of documentary filmmaking is that an inspirational story of overcoming hardship can be told without sugar-coating things or sacrificing raw human emotion. The NFB produced Gun Runners, directed …
Shockingly dull, inexcusably drab, and listlessly paced, The Girl on the Train feels about as exciting as being locked in a room with someone explaining what they just read to …
We take a look at a trio of documentaries in Canadian cinemas this coming weekend: Adam Irving’s exceptional Off the Rails, Marty Langford’s wildly entertaining Doomed: The Untold Story of …
Set against the backdrop of President Barak Obama’s tough but ultimately hollow talk that American troops would leave Afghansitan in 2013, Nicole Nielsen Horanyi’s documentary Motley’s Law focuses on one …
We take some brief looks at the stranger-than-fiction documentary The Lovers and the Despot, the Israeli selection for this year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, Sand Storm, and Daniel Radcliff in …
The elements of a great film – and perhaps the next great cinematic franchise to be spawned from a young adult novel – are initially on display in director Tim …
