Actor Bradley Cooper’s feature directorial debut A Star is Born, a retelling of the well worn tale about a relationship between a washed-up performer and an up-and-coming talent, is an …
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.
Although Jeremy Saulnier has made a name for himself directing two of the most celebrated thrillers in recent memory (the atypical revenge picture Blue Ruin and the punks versus neo-nazis …
Canadian documentarians Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky continue their examinations into the various ways mankind has irreparably damaged the environment with Anthropocne: The Human Epoch, a nod …
A celebration of London in the swinging 60s, the heavily nostalgic documentary My Generation will appeal primarily to those who were between their late teens and early thirties during one …
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The Great Dark North: Jeremy Saulnier talks about Hold the Dark
Director Jeremy Saulnier is no stranger to dark material, and his latest feature, Hold the Dark (arriving on Netflix this Friday and opening theatrically in Toronto the same day), might …
Shot over the course of twelve years by someone who initially wanted to capture the everyday lives and passions of his skateboarding friends, Bing Liu’s documentary Minding the Gap is …
Told in a manner as briskly paced as a punk song, the interview heavy documentary Bad Reputation looks at the successes and struggles of rock and roll pioneer Joan Jett.
Initially intriguing and ambiguous, Lizzie, director Craig William Macneill’s retelling of one of America’s most infamous double murders, devolves into half-hearted theorizing in an effort to wrap things up into …
More of an insightful, nuanced, and comprehensive character drama than a detail oriented period piece, director and co-writer Wash Westmoreland’s Colette takes a historically significant literary figurehead and builds upon …
Quincy Jones has lived a life so rich, complicated, and noteworthy that one could fill a yearlong television series with his exploits, so the single two-hour documentary Quincy can only …