Spencer Lord on joining Heartland and playing Nathan Pryce Jr.
Nov 29, 2023 · 12.8K. Actor Spencer Lord spoke with me on the set of Heartland season 17, and shared what it was like playing Nathan Pryce Jr., joining the large, ensemble cast, and learning to ride a horse.
TIFF 2024 Review: Anora | The GATE
Sep 2, 2024 · 538. A masterful work from continually evolving auteur Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine, Red Rocket), Anora garners obvious points of comparison to Pretty Woman, but his approach is anything but skin deep and easily digestible.Part character study of a sex worker caught between fulfilling happiness and the promise of financial stability, and part raucous “one crazy night” romp ...
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal Review | It's a Good Life If …
Sep 23, 2024 · 2.4K. The documentary miniseries The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal is an ideal example of this type of cultural deep dive. Comprehensive and detailed enough to tell die hard fans of one of Canada’s biggest bands things they never knew before and enlightening enough to show the uninitiated or unfamiliar why their work mattered, The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal is a series of equal ...
Rebel Ridge Review | The Last Stand
Sep 4, 2024 · 166. The revenge fuelled action thriller Rebel Ridge is another winner from perpetually underrated genre auteur Jeremy Saulnier that will keep viewers glued to the edge of their seats. A reworking of familiar stories that pit a one man wrecking crew with a special set of skills against a corrupted, all powerful band of villains, Rebel Ridge blends top notch filmmaking, subtextual smarts, and ...
The Crow Review | Big Empty
Aug 22, 2024 · 202. There’s a lot that can be said about director Rupert Sanders’ bafflingly misguided and somnambulant re-boot of The Crow, but you have to give it some credit.It’s a film that’s carving its own path rather than taking the route every sequel to the Brandon Lee starring 1994 adaptation of James O’Barr’s dark comic series about love …
Spellbound Review | How Did It Get This Bad? | The GATE
Nov 23, 2024 · 1.5K “People go, ‘Well, that was kind of a crappy movie,’ and I go, ‘Let’s play the game, then.’ Play the Congo game. You’re an executive, and I’m going to pitch you a story.
Ninja Luxe Café Premier Series giveaway | Holiday Gift Guides
Nov 20, 2024 · 2.4K. This holiday season give the gift of perfect coffee, espresso, and cold brew, all with one machine: the Ninja Luxe Café Premier Series. The Ninja Luxe Café Premier Series features Barista Assist Technology to get the perfect grind, with the perfect amount of coffee, and the perfect temperature to make delicious drop coffee, rapid cold brew, and espresso.
The Return Review | The Slog-esy | The GATE
Dec 4, 2024 · 172. It takes quite a bit to make the overall gist of Homer’s legendary works uninteresting, but director Uberto Pasolini has somehow found a way to do so with the leaden paced and passionless anti-epic The Return.A scaled back reimagining of elements contained within The Odyssey, The Return wants to reduce mythology and history to its barest essence, but it can’t quite figure out how it ...
Martha Review | Woman’s Work - The GATE
Oct 29, 2024 · 71. Martha is a great example of a documentary that’s able to paint an intriguing and complex portrait of a controversial, yet beloved public figure, despite the fact that the film’s subject is notoriously and justifiably reticent to talk about their feelings in any amount of revealing depth.Martha takes a wrecking ball to the heavily fortified walls …
TIFF 2024 Review | Seeds | The GATE
Sep 9, 2024 · 165. Basic, but solidly constructed and thoughtful, Seeds, the directorial debut of writer-star Kaniehtiio Horn, balances horror, comedy, and social commentary with a deft hand.Filled with knowing jokes, oft cited fears of indigenous peoples and farmers everywhere, and set to an absolutely banging score that matches 80s styled synths with some First Nations swagger and percussion, Seeds is an ...