When filmmakers set out to make a film about the nature of friendship, it helps if the people making the film just so happen to be friends in real life. …
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.
With the home entertainment market booming, we kick off a regular column looking at some of the best VOD and streaming options. We begin with looks at the slow burning …
The documentary Exit: Music is well meaning, informative, well researched, and not much of a film. More suited to home viewing on public television than appointment viewing in a theatre, …
As a blanket look at a performer considered in some circles to be a noteworthy cultural icon, filmmaker Steven Cantor’s documentary, Dancer –profiling controversial ballerina Sergei Polunin – does a …
Quietly contemplative, down to earth, and stirring, Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson might be the least pretentious film ever made about the creative process. Centering around a simple man who finds the …
One would be forgiven for thinking that the documentary Strike a Pose would strictly take a behind the scenes look at the nuts, bolts, and drama surrounding pop icon Madonna’s …
We catch up to nineteen year old actor Asa Butterfield, star of the teen oriented sci-fi drama The Space Between Us, now playing in theatres everywhere.
We talk to filmmaker John Michael McDonagh, writer and director of The Guard and Calvary, about his latest effort, the hilarious and gleefully offensive buddy cop action film War on …
The country of Laos has only produced a minuscule handful of fictional features in the past decade. Female filmmaker Mattie Do, director of the thriller Dearest Sister (now streaming on …
While not as tightly constructed as some of his more recent works, Oscar nominated Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman is still a worthy, dramatically satisfying effort that benefits greatly …
