Author: Caitlin Abe Gokool

• The Voice of Hind Rajab

  

  Films often open us up to world that we can only imagine. Fantastical stories, creatures we picture in our minds, they are also cameras into the world we live in today. Places we cannot visit, and realities we only read as news online. In The Voice of Hind Rajab, we are faced strikingly with the…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  December 23, 2025

• Merrily We Roll Along

  

  In a world where tickets for popular live shows are becoming more impossible to get by the day, pro-shots are becoming a more accessible way to guarantee a seat to the hottest shows, given that the seat is in your local movie theatre or your own home. From concert films becoming more popular to bring…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  December 1, 2025

• Kiss of the Spider Woman

  

  It sounds complicated, but in a film adaptation based on a 1992 Tony Award winning stage musical, which is based on a 1976 novel, and was previously adapted into a film in 1985, Bill Condon directs his take on the dramatic thriller musical set in 1980s Argentina, during the dictatorship in the time of the…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  October 15, 2025

• Blue Heron [TIFF 2025]

  

  The future of Canadian cinema has never looked brighter, after the Canadian premiere of Sophy Romvari’s feature debut Blue Heron, winner of the First Feature Film Competition at the 78th Locarno Film Festival and the Best Canadian Discovery Award at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. Based on her own childhood, the film follows a…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  October 12, 2025

• Eleanor the Great

  

  Following her leading role in 2024’s Thelma, June Squibb is back to grace our screens again in 2025 starring in Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, Eleanor the Great. Touching on similar aspects of loneliness and grief, Johansson’s film, written by Tory Kamen, takes a unique spin on classic themes, placing Squibb as Eleanor, an older woman…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 25, 2025

• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery [TIFF 2025]

  

  Director Rian Johnson has returned with his latest instalment in his Knives Out franchise. After uncovering the truth about the death of Harlan Thrombey, and revealing the motivations of a killer on a remote island, Benoit Blanc returns to solve the murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 18, 2025

• Hamnet [TIFF 2025]

  

  It is a story we all know and a name we have all heard. Hamlet, the prince, or in its full title for the stage, The Tragedy of Hamlet. A story of revenge and redemption, of loss and family. William Shakespeare’s longest play, and one that author Maggie O’Farrell envisions having come as a result…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 15, 2025

• Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery [TIFF 2025]

  

  I first heard about it from my mom. A conversation about Coachella that turned into a conversation about a “little festival” she attended in the late 90’s. One that took place before I was born, though if she remembers correctly and attended the 1999 fair, one that I also attended while in the womb. A…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 13, 2025

• Poetic License [TIFF 2025]

  

  The eldest daughter of director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann has made her directorial debut at this years Toronto International Film Festival, and it is sure to be the first in a long line of films to come. Beginning her career acting in her father’s films alongside her mother and younger sister, Maude Apatow…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 12, 2025

• The Testament of Ann Lee [Venice 2025]

  

  When the film first premiered, reactions out of the theatre were polarized. Some hailed it as inventive and the film of the year, while others laughed at its attempts to take its titular character seriously amidst the choreography and original songs of the film. From Mona Fastvold, co-writer of the 2024 sensation The Brutalist, this…

  Caitlin Abe Gokool

  September 10, 2025