With last year’s Oscar nominated short film Heroin(e), documentarian Elaine McMillion Sheldon looked at women working on the front lines of West Virginia’s rampant opioid drug crisis. Her latest feature, …
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.
Uniquely pitched somewhere between the work of the gritty and perceptive outlandishness of the Coen Brothers and the surreal, dreamlike work of Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the modernist Indonesian western …
An impressive improvement on an already commendable show, the second installment of GLOW – a backstage dramedy set against the backdrop of a tawdry and kitschy all-female wrestling program from …
Our senior film critic reassesses The Wachowski’s much maligned 2008 box office flop Speed Racer in honour of the film’s 10th anniversary and a special IMAX screening of the film …
Luke Cage Season 2 isn’t easily watchable, but it is enjoyable for the most part, and he remains the most consistently written and utilized character in the NYC centred Marvel …
Loud, lumbering, cynically made and caring about nothing more than taking your money, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom isn’t only the worst film in the rampaging dinosaur franchise, but one of …
A story of young love on the rocks, the Canadian produced/American set romantic drama Paper Year comes from a place of brutal, emotional honesty, but not from an assured filmmaking …
A delicately entertaining and uplifting film that manages to be inspirational and charming without becoming outright corny, overwrought, or leaning hard into American indie movie conventions, the musical-comedy-drama Hearts Beat …
A fascinating and effective marriage of documentary interview techniques with slick, stylish, fictional filmmaking, director Bart Layton’s unique heist drama American Animals delivers plenty of thrills and high spots while …
Multi-hyphenate talent Sook-Yin Lee’s second directorial feature, Octavio is Dead, contains a lot of intriguing ideas and concepts revolving around feelings of grief and sexual identity, but they could stand …
