Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
The Ritual is bad. It’s not bad in an interesting way that suggests it was ever on to something good in the first place, or like it was a production …
The animated anthology film Predator: Killer of Killers takes the sci-fi/horror franchise for a pleasantly brutal detour between proper live action entries. Coming between the sleeper streaming hit Prey (which …
The wildly entertaining Dangerous Animals proves that Australian genre director Sean Byrne should get a lot more work than he does. After his cult classic debut feature The Loved Ones …
Despite the best efforts and chemistry of stars Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells, the dark comedy I Don’t Understand You becomes a one note joke that gets stretched to the …
Kevin Smith has never made a movie that wasn’t personal. Okay, maybe Cop Out wasn’t a personal passion project in any way (more of a well intentioned misfire meant to …
The 70s action classic Three the Hard Way exists at an intersection of cinema that’s rarely talked about: the point where the blaxploitation craze and the rise of the politically …
I’m of two minds about the new legacy sequel Karate Kid: Legends. I recognize and immediately acknowledge that Karate Kid: Legends is not a good movie, and no amount of …
A terrifying work of constant edge-of-your-seat discomfort and unease, Bring Her Back is an instant horror classic that uses familiarity to its advantage. If anything negative can be said against …
Two Women might be a remake of a film made over fifty years ago, but it posts plenty of modern sensibility and humour. A reworking of Claude Fournier’s 1970 soft …
Ivona Juka’s black and white period drama Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day doesn’t live up to its full potential as a post-war epic, but it does take an insightful look at …
