Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Dutch filmmaker Mike van Dien’s period drama Character won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film in 1998, but doesn’t get talked about nearly as much these days. A Dickensian …
With the first new Looney Tunes movie in ages currently making waves in theatres, now would be a perfect time to look back at the last proper animated outing for …
Snow White is the latest Disney animated classic to get a live action update, and it might be one of the dullest, least inspired, and slowest remakes from the Mouse… …
The Alto Knights, filmmaker Barry Levinson’s latest collaboration with actor Robert De Niro, isn’t a return to form or rekindling of past glories for either the man in front of… …
King Lear is the first Jean-Luc Godard film I ever saw. I’m not sure I would recommend that to someone unfamiliar with the French master’s body of work, but I …
Writer-Director Mark Anthony Green’s debut feature Opus is a muddled and mishandled bundle of good ideas and techniques in search of anything that can hold them together. Never fully deciding… …
Steven Soderbergh’s smart, slick, and sassy spy thriller Black Bag is an intelligent sort of popcorn flick aimed squarely at adult audiences. There’s plenty of flash and panache, but it’s… …
Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s latest drama, Seven Veils, blends modern reality, classicism, and meta-commentary into a a tightly formed, estimable package. A backstage psychodrama built around an opera director tasked …
An intense thriller told from a unique, elderly perspective, director and co-writer James Ashcroft’s The Rule of Jenny Pen is a deeply frightening and unnerving film for genre fans of …
Night of the Zoopocalypse is an engaging blend of silly and spooky that should delight and amuse the post-toddler/pre-teen crowd nicely. Based on a concept from revered horror writer Clive …
