Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
The layered, multi-arc drama Finch and Midland is another shining example of the sort of high level, hyper-local filmmaking that has been coming from the city of Toronto lately. While …
A script from renowned writer David Koepp normally provides filmmakers and actors with a healthy base to build from. Not so with Jonny Campbell’s zombie comedy Cold Storage, which is …
Every once in awhile, when our senior writer Andrew Parker (that’s me) gets backed up with reviews to put out into the world, it becomes easier to just host a …
The ultra-low budget single setting thriller Sway is as rare as finding a diamond in a haystack; a talky, exposition driven story that never wavers, slows, or remains static. As …
It’s not that difficult to make a Dracula movie. It’s exceptionally difficult to make a great one. The material contained within Bram Stoker’s legendary novel is both malleable and solid. …
The unlikely, but inspired pairing of boundary pushing director Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline, The Sky is Everywhere) and stand-up-comic writer/star Iliza Shlesinger turn in one of the finest and funniest …
Shelter is exactly what one expects at this point from a Jason Statham movie. He plays a gruff loner with deadly fighting skills standing up for what’s right against a …
In director Sam Raimi’s latest film, Send Help, the meek shall inherit the Earth, or at the very least they’ll end up with a job that values their hard work …
For her short film, Crisis Actor (which make its world premiere this week as part of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival), filmmaker Lily Platt pulled from a world she knows …
Canadian director, writer, and performer Kelly McCormack understands the feeling of wanting to disappear; not just into a role or a great script ripe for adaptation, but dropping out of …
