Harmless, lavishly mounted, blandly forgettable and hastily assembled, the holiday trifle The Nutcracker and the Four Realms likely won’t be referred to by anyone as their favourite Christmas movie or …
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.
Artistically and thematically indulgent to the point of becoming top-heavy and ponderous, award winning filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s alternatingly loose and constricting reworking of Dario Argento’s horror thriller Suspiria is one …
Bohemian Rhapsody, an aggressive, aggrandizing, and more than a little silly and factually fluid look at the life and times of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, will appeal primarily to those …
Monrovia, Indiana finds legendarily rigorous documentarian Frederick Wiseman travelling to America’s heartland and taking the continually quickening pulse of the country’s white middle class.
Cinematic history is littered with abandoned, cancelled, unfinished, indefinitely shelved, or lost projects that have obscured major talents with ambitious ideas and potentially game changing perspectives from mainstream acclaim and …
Based on the true story of one of the strangest forgery and fraud cases to involve a semi-famous person in American history, director Marielle Heller’s dark comedy Can You Ever …
The Canadian comedy Room for Rent is an easygoing, funny, but not altogether complex story of an unlikable, washed up protagonist going head to head with an even more unlikable …
Bone chilling and eye opening, director Kimberly Reed’s Dark Money exposes the frequently sickening truth behind American political campaign finance and why it’s so hard to reform a hopelessly broken …
Mid90s, the gritty, purposefully un-PC directorial debut of actor Jonah Hill, is the rare sort of nostalgia trip that’s tinged with more mortification and subtle regret than an open embrace …
A unique and rigorous look at the weight of fame and the burden of expectation, Tom Volf’s documentary Maria by Callas, a look into the life and career of opera …
