Alison Gillmor

In this likable but somewhat scattered feature-film debut, Toronto-based filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço finds an improbable scripting partner in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, an early influence on the German Romantics.

WHAT IT IS Domestic Frieze 03, a large-scale archival pigment print, is part of Franco-Manitoban artist Dominique Rey’s solo exhibition MOTHERGROUND, now on view at WAG-Qaumajuq. WHAT IT’S ABOUT SUP...

Do we really need to worry about work-life balance issues when it comes to hired assassins and deep-cover spies? Two recent streaming series, The Day of the Jackal (Paramount+) and Black Doves (Netflix), are asking us to do just that.

However you like your holiday fare, here’s the lowdown on some of this season’s newest movies and shows.

Ancestor worship was a thing in ancient Rome, so maybe it’s no surprise that Gladiator II, directed by Ridley Scott and scripted by David Scarpa, pays homage to the 2000 original, a sword-and-sandals...

With a mix of righteous satirical rage and pitch-dark, pancake-flat mirth, Guy Maddin and the Johnson brothers have made the end of the world eminently watchable.

Look at beauty only skin deep

Based on a grim Danish thriller from just two years ago, this Americanized remake from Blumhouse Productions and English filmmaker James Watkins (Eden Lake, The Woman in Black) loses some of the original’s art-house existentialism and Nordic bleakness. But with a mesmerizing lead performance from James McAvoy (Split, The Last King of Scotland), all smiling menace and sinister bonhomie, this second go-round works as a deft, dark horror-comedy. With its deceptively picturesque holiday settings, Speak No Evil could also be classed as “travel horror,” a recently expanding subgenre that includes flicks about rental homes gone wrong and Airbnbs hiding hideous […]

Sweetly, deceptively simple, this affecting all-ages animated film speaks to the boon of friendship without saying a word. Dialogue-free but not silent, Robot Dreams grooves to the soundtrack of a big city. Its old-school hand-drawn cartooning is clear and straightforward but packed with little details. The layered narrative shades from goofy fun to yearning bittersweetness. Kids will pick up more on the gentle humour, while grown-ups might get a bit teary about the film’s understated evocations of time and change, memory and loss. Neon via AP Dog meets Robot and fun times ensue in Robot Dreams. Adapted from a 2007 […]

Fans of the 1996 tornado movie Twister will be chuffed to see DOROTHY IV show up in the opening sequence of this storm-chasing sequel. That slightly rusty data-collecting contraption is back because “...