Although he didn’t initially set out to do so, first time documentarian Jonathan Olshefski ended up spending almost a decade with the subjects of his equally heart-warming and heart-wrenching film …
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 fantastical teen romance Every Day comes with a high concept plot that requires a somewhat lofty suspension of disbelief, but if you’re willing to go along with it, the …
Alex Garland’s trippy, elliptical, and often purposefully evasive sci-fi thriller Annihilation envelops unsuspecting viewers not only into a world they’ve never witnessed before, but a state of mind that’s rarely …
Although it’s built upon an outrageous and patently implausible plot that won’t appeal to viewers looking for anything remotely resembling realism, the dark comedy Game Night will appeal to anyone …
Although it’s purposefully abrasive and assuredly made with bad taste connoisseurs in mind, writer-director Brian Taylor’s gleefully deranged horror-comedy Mom and Dad is a chaotic blast from start to finish
A well meaning, suitably uplifting, but slight and narrowly focused look at youth putting on a testament to their unfairly maligned Toronto community, the documentary My Piece of the City …
We talk to prolific DIY Canadian filmmaker Ingrid Veninger about her latest feature film, Porcupine Lake, and the challenges of creating a realistic depiction of coming of age as a …
Early Man, the latest stop motion animated effort from venerable British animation studio Aardman (Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep Movie), is charming and sure to delight youngsters, …
Everyone poops and many of us have potty mouths, so Poop Talk, Aaron Feldman’s look at how stand up comics depict the art of defecating in their routines, might be …
The Spanish produced, but English language sci-fi-slash-home-invasion-thriller Black Hollow Cage strives to be austere and thoughtful, but instead ends up cold, distant, and borderline incoherent.
