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Browsing: Film & Television

The latest reviews and interviews our team of industry leading film and TV critics.
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 his Spiderman: Brand New Day review, Kevin Bourne calls the latest Spidey film “superhero storytelling at its finest”, and…
Cassius fights for his job and Amina is carrying another secret. Here’s our All American season 8 episode 4 recap.…
Amina continues to hide a secret and Cassius has a kind of new love interest. Here’s our All American season…
Amina returns and tension is brewing in the Baker house between Jordan and Layla. Here’s our All American season 8…
Layla returns from tour to find life isn’t the same as she left it, and Cassius, KJ, and Khalil deal…
In his The Invite movie review, Kevin Bourne calls the film an “entertaining therapy session that will make you laugh,…
SHIFTER’s Emmy Carlos Rayman shares the sights and sounds from The Hollywood Reporter Women In Entertainment Gala in Toronto. “I…
Black actors in Canada must work significantly harder just to receive the same level of recognition as their peers writes…
Mortal Kombat II brought carnage to the Earthrealm in downtown Toronto courtesy of Kung Lao. The message? Our parking is…
In his Is God Is movie review, Kevin Bourne says that the film “pulls no punches” and is “twisted and…
In his The Devil Wears Prada 2 review, SHIFTER’s Kevin Bourne calls it “a sequel done right” as Miranda Priestly…