review

By Josh Bate The attempted assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee is the kind of historical event that seems tailor-made for a conspiracy thriller. With The Assassin(s), director Hur Jin-ho turns this chilling chapter of South Korean history into a propulsive political mystery that finds its greatest intrigue not in the shooting itself, but

By Josh Bate Mount Everest has been conquered countless times since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached its summit, but the achievement remains one of the most extraordinary feats of the 20th century nonetheless. Unfortunately, Tenzing, a new Apple TV movie making its Canadian premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), rarely

A sweeping romantic epic that is perhaps the greatest queer movie of all time

Danny Boyle’s dramatization of the origins of The Sun misses the mark.