In SHIFTER’s Best of 2025, our journalist roundtable, including Golden Globe Awards and Critics Choice Awards voters, and Rotten Tomatoes…
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Kevin Bourne is SHIFTER’s Toronto-based editor-in-chief and Senior Arts & Entertainment Reporter. He has covered some of Canada’s biggest red carpets and press events, interviewing everyone from Kevin Hart and Fast & The Furious Star Tyrese Gibson to Ava DuVernay and Dascha Polanco. A Golden Globe Awards voter and Tomatometer-Approved Critic. As a critic, he has been quoted in film and TV commercials by major studios and network in both Canada and the United States.
Ottawa-based Vladimir Jean-Gilles is a Critics Choice Association Member, Critics Choice Awards voter, and Tomatometer-Approved Critic who has covered premieres from New York and Los Angeles to Toronto and Washington DC. He has interviewed everyone from Colman Domingo to Janelle Monáe.
In SHIFTER’s Best of 2025, our journalist roundtable, including Golden Globe Awards and Critics Choice Awards voters, and Rotten Tomatoes…
In SHIFTER’s Best of 2025, our journalist roundtable, including Golden Globe Awards and Critics Choice Awards voters, and Rotten Tomatoes…
From humble beginnings in North York to leading man, actor Adrian Walters and his rise is a story of faith…
In his Wicked: For Good review, Kevin Bourne says that despite having less “wow” and sparkle than its predecessor, Wicked:…
In his Christy film review, Kevin Bourne calls Sydney Sweeney’s latest “an inspirational masterclass in onscreen performance” as Sweeney and…
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, one of the more highly anticipated biopics in recent years “underperforms” and falls a bit…
Season two of Nobody Wants This is “quirky, funny, and well worth the wait” says SHIFTER’s Kevin Bourne. Here’s our…
The Black Movie Hall of Fame is set to move into the redeveloped Boone Theater in Kansas City’s historic 18th…
Although Season 2 was a tough act to follow, in his The Diplomat Season 3 review, Kevin Bourne says the…
The Victoria Beckham Netflix series, simply titled “Victoria Beckham’ is an “inspiration” and ‘a must-watch” for anyone with a dream.…
In his True North film review, Kevin Bourne calls the documentary “a must-see for all Canadians and Black people everywhere.”…