You don’t need to be familiar with the beloved, short lived cult television series Nirvanna The Band The Show to understand or enjoy the giddy delights of creators Matt Johnson …
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.
Honey Bunch is filmmaking team Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s follow-up to their previous feature Violation, which made waves at the festival back in 2020 as part of the Midnight …
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s latest effort It Was Just an Accident is an impassioned, morally fluid, darkly comedic thriller. Dabbling in genre work is a change of pace for Panahi …
Pictured above: a still from Healer. The 2025 Short Cuts programme kicks off with several shorts that speak to the various ways people carve out spaces for themselves and others …
A taut thriller that unfolds across a massive canvas with political savvy, historical relevancy, and a good amount of cheek, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Cannes award winner The Secret Agent is …
Inventive, eerie, and just a little long in the tooth, the surreal Japanese thriller Exit 8 goes around in circles, but with a purpose. An unlucky commuter (Kazunari Ninomiya) who’s …
Documentarian Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 looks at the titular author’s ability to examine the dark sides of politics, society, and mass media in ways that make him look like a …
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is a giddy, glossy, and sometimes overly reverential work of fandom. Films about other filmmakers are always subject to subjectivity, and Linklater’s look at Jean-Luc Godard …
Sentimental Value, the latest from writer-director Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World, Oslo August 31st), includes a lot of thematic material the filmmaker has dabbled in before (sexual …
The frantic and frenetic Caught Stealing is a wild, bloody, and frequently funny change of pace for director Darren Aronofsky. In typical Aronofsky fashion, there’s a lot of darkness and …
