For every admirable point that the hollow tech-world biopic Swiped tries to make about being a woman in a male dominated field, the film gets bogged down in trite, inauthentic …
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.
One of the most anticipated restorations of the year for film buffs is Kino Lorber’s successful resurrection of the grimy New York City set 1980 thriller Night of the Juggler. …
Another tremendous fable from legendary Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) pulls from legend and oral tradition to look at the darker, more complicated side of keeping a promise. …
Tamara Kotevska’s elegant and moving The Tale of Silyan is proof that great beauty can be found in documentary filmmaking simply by going with the flow of life. Starting in …
YouTuber turned filmmaker Curry Barker’s debut feature, Obsession, is an engaging hybrid of gory horror, earnest romance, and outrageous dark comedy that plays on classic genre tropes. An examination of …
An inventive and visually stimulating deep dive into the world of sex workers, director Nicole Bazuin and writer/subject Andrea Werhun’s expansion of their book and short film Modern Whore is …
An exceptional leading performance from Nina Kiri breathes vibrant life into Out Standing, a biopic recounting the struggles faced by Captain Sandra Perron, Canada’s first female infantry officer. Born into …
The yearning for personal connection is a common thread that runs through the six moving and deeply human shorts in TIFF’s Short Cuts Programme 02. Executive produced by Spike Lee, …
Ethan Hawke delivers a once in a lifetime performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart in Richard Linklater’s snappy, banter driven period piece, Blue Moon. With wide, dark eyes, a diminutive presence, …
Dandelion’s Odyssey is a visually resplendent animated adventure in the same tenor and the same level of quality as Flow and Wall-E. Focusing on a quartet of unlikely, nonverbal heroes …
