After winning the award for Best Short Film in 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival with Doubles with Slight Pepper, filmmaker Ian Harnarine returns to TIFF this fall with …
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 powerful short film EXIT (which makes its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September) depicts an important and life changing day in the life of an …
A wildly uneven mash-up of high concept sci-fi and clichéd family-in-crisis tropes, Jonathan and Josh Baker’s Kin starts off with an interesting enough premise and a stacked cast of old …
A staggeringly boring misfire, the period piece thriller The Little Stranger is so lifeless and frustratingly stiff that it could make the Masterpiece Theatre crowd both impatient and sleepy at …
One of the year’s better Canadian dramas, Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley’s Cardinals takes a potentially melodramatic premise and strips away any layers of artifice, making for a more subtly …
Juliet, Naked, the latest big screen adaptation of a novel from prolific British author Nick Hornby, is one of those character studies that works better on the page than it …
The missing persons thriller Searching uses a suddenly trendy storytelling gimmick to deliver a mostly clever and suspenseful yarn about one man’s desperate search for his daughter and the online …
Boasting a nifty sense of setting and little else, the Canadian produced and World War I set zombie thriller Trench 11 is a competent, if unmemorable riff on horror classics …
There aren’t enough words to properly describe the bad movie awfulness of A.X.L.
Not much a of a foul mouthed comedy featuring dirty minded puppets and even less of a buddy cop picture, The Happytime Murders boasts a premise that should have been …
