The Belgian produced documentary Sakawa is a fascinating, non-judgmental, and somewhat darkly comedic fly-on-the-wall look at the criminal lengths some will go to in an effort to escape from abject …
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.
The second annual Toronto True Crime Film Festival (happening this weekend at The Revue) kicks off with directors Rose Rosenblatt and Marion Lipschutz’s heart-wrenching, infuriating, and complex documentary, Bei Bei.
Appropriately candid and righteous, but somewhat lacking on the whole, the showbiz comedy Late Night has a great concept and a well honed social and political viewpoint that would work …
While its overall style of excessively literal deadpan humour won’t be to everyone’s taste (especially horror fans going into this expecting a broader, gorier zombie comedy), The Dead Don’t Die …
Rigorously researched, exceptionally edited, and emotionally draining, the initially unassuming art world documentary There Are No Fakes might be one of the most vital, complex, and controversial Canadian films of …
Political junkies and American history enthusiasts will gobble up all four hours and twenty minutes of director Charles Ferguson’s Watergate, a comprehensive overview of the most high profile governmental scandal …
A cheeky and sometimes deliberately obtuse reworking of documentary conventions from a master filmmaker, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese offers a fitfully weird, but largely …
Domino, the latest film from controversial and divisive American auteur Brian De Palma, recently skipped theatres in most markets and went straight to VOD. It’s not hard to see why, …
A limp, dull animated sequel that pretty much ignores everything that made its predecessor a low key charmer, The Secret Life of Pets 2 is a film that only exists …
Wild Nights with Emily, the latest film from Madeleine Olnek, is a cheeky, playful period piece comedy with a serious desire to change perceptions about one of the most misunderstood …
