The Glen Powell led and co-created series Chad Powers stumbles due to a lack of believable depth and escalation. The idea of a once disgraced athlete attempting a comeback via …
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.
Series creator and co-star Mae Martin’s unnerving, etherial, and quite often funny thriller Wayward takes a lot of familiar elements and turns them into something refreshing, renewing, and uniquely heartfelt …
No one does disaster and tragedy quite like Paul Greengrass, and while The Lost Bus isn’t the filmmaker’s best work, it certainly reaffirms his status as the king of depicting …
Carmen Emmi’s first feature Plainclothes is a refreshing, original blend of intrigue, romance, and psychological drama. Built around a unique period concept and a fascinating main character, Plainclothes might appear …
Scarlett Johansson’s feature directorial debut Eleanor the Great is the definition of “good enough,” but it also boasts an impressive leading performance from everyone’s favourite nonagenarian, June Squibb, that makes …
An irreverent blend of comedy, action, thrills, and biting satire, One Battle After Another is a masterwork from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson; one of the finest films of an already …
Sepideh Farsi’s raw, intimate documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk tragically illustrates the increasingly dire conditions within Gaza through a long distance conversation carried on across a …
Seamlessly blending humour, action, social commentary, brutal flashes of violence, and old school gumshoe theatricality, Sterlin Harjo’s mystery The Lowdown comes at a tipping point in the genre. Just like …
The History of Sound is a downbeat, period romance where its greatest asset is an overall sense of delicacy. A queer romance that spans the late 1910s and early 20s, …
With heart etched firmly on its brightly coloured sleeve, Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey places romantic earnestness and bittersweet heartache in the foreground and throws cynicism and subtlety to …
