May 27, 2014

Jason Anderson is a freelance critic and writes regularly about film for The Toronto Star, Cinema Scope, Artforum.com, Sight & Sound and Movie Entertainment. He’s also written for Uncut, Entertainment Weekly, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest Canada, Men’s Fashion and many other publications. He’s served on juries for Hot Docs, Reel Asian, […]

May 7, 2024

Linda Barnard was a freelance film critic with a career spanning more than 30 years in Canadian daily newspapers. A graduate of Ryerson University (BAA Journalism), she joined the Star and thestar.com in 2002, moving to the Entertainment department in 2005, becoming part of the Star’s team covering film in 2007. Barnard is a 2014 National […]

April 3, 2026

Anne Brodie has covered film on television, in print and online for 35 years, reviewing movies and interviewing tens of thousands of filmmakers. Brodie reported on entertainment for 26 years at CTV Toronto, went to Global News, and various national and international freelance gigs before joining radio and web startup What She Said as film […]

November 3, 2014

A former president of the TFCA, Bruce Kirkland has been a reporter with Sun Media for 31 years. He has worked the movies beat from 1980-2007, and still focuses on TIFF, Cannes, Oscars. Before taking a position at the Toronto Sun, he worked at the Ottawa Journal as entertainment editor and movie critic from 1979-80, […]