In honour of his birthday this week and an ongoing Cineplex retrospective, we take a look at twenty of Tom Hanks’ best performances.
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.
For her first fictional feature since 2010’s Winter’s Bone (and only her fourth feature in the past fifteen years), director Debra Granik mounts an even further internalized depiction of pain, …
Intense and emotionally jarring, the Canadian thriller 22 Chaser mines an unlikely premise for maximum impact.
With The Oslo Diaries, documentarians Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan aren’t only offered unprecedented access to some of the key figures in the now maligned and ultimately fruitless Israel-Palestinian peace …
The animated Japanese teen drama Fireworks isn’t a particularly riveting or engaging romance, revolving around a time travelling gimmick that seems more designed to distract from narrative flimsiness than to …
Those in the mood for anecdotes about living the New York City high-life will be sufficiently charmed by Matthew Miele’s documentary Always at The Carlyle, a look at one of …
Writer-director Shana Feste’s Boundaries is the kind of quirky indie movie that would be fine only if you left the second the plot kicks in.
A major step backward in quality for a franchise that started horribly and slowly started to right the ship, The First Purge is a prequel that seeks to flesh out …
Charming, lightweight, suitably entertaining, and a slight improvement over its charming, lightweight, and suitably entertaining predecessor, Ant-Man and the Wasp doesn’t represent the A-list of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but …
The basketball comedy Uncle Drew will never be regarded as one of 2018’s unequivocal cinematic masterpieces, but it’s the best case scenario for a high concept comedy predominantly starring non-actors …