A loving and progressively minded mother looks back on her fraught relationship to her own distant maternal figure in director Laurie Townshend’s enlightening, heartfelt, and empathetic A Mother Apart.
Andrew Parker
Andrew Parker
Andrew Parker fell in love with film growing up across the street from a movie theatre. He began writing professionally about film at the age of fourteen, and has been following his passions ever since. His writing has been showcased at various online outlets, as well as in The Globe and Mail, BeatRoute, and NOW Magazine. If he's not watching something or reading something, he's probably sleeping.
Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s emotionally charged and lovingly crafted Daughters looks at a meaningful and potentially life altering form of rehabilitation for incarcerated persons, as four young girls and …
The fallout of the 2019 Iraqi Revolution and the emotional toll of living in the struggling city of Baghdad are seen from a youthful, creative perspective in filmmaker Maja Tschumi’s …
Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard looks at a subject close to her heart and field of study in her latest documentary, Singing Back the Buffalo, with mixed results. A filmmaker normally …
Filmmakers Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs utilize the power of the moving image as captured by everyday people around the world to document the impact of climate change in the …
A complex, observant, and bittersweet look at the nature of fulfilment viewed through the infrequently glimpsed lens of Bhutanese culture, Agent of Happiness ponders the value of joy and how …
The King Tide is a folk horror movie that isn’t particularly scary, but it more than makes up for its lack of shock value by being resoundingly thoughtful and uniquely …
Acclaimed and varied filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s romantic sports melodrama Challengers deftly skirts along the razor’s edge of high art and even higher camp.
Have you ever wished that The Hunger Games was a lot more like The Running Man, and that in turn The Running Man was a lot more like The Raid, …
Although it plays off familiar post-apocalyptic and home invasion thriller set-ups, director Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut feature Humane coasts swiftly along under the power of its own confidence and the contributions …