By no means a great work of cinema, The Bye Bye Man is still a deliriously fun throwback to the kinds of 1980s slasher films that never get made anymore.
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.
Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s family drama Sieranevada asks a lot of the audience with its claustrophobic feeling and nearly three hour long running time, but it’s so observant and realistic …
After a lackluster year for Canadian features in 2016, we’re proud to look at the ten worthy features selected for this year’s TIFF sponsored Canada’s Top Ten, running from January …
Calling a film “the kind of motion picture we need right now” might strike some fellow critics as a hokey, clichéd, and trite sentiment, but in the case of Mike …
Mostly Sunny, a documentary about porn star turned Bollywood heavyweight Sunny Leone by Canadian filmmaker Dilip Mehta, isn’t a look at a human being. It’s a look at a rigidly …
The documentary California Typewriter takes a look at one Berkeley repair shop’s role in the resurgence of typewriting culture – amid a plethora of celebrities talking about their love for …
With TIFF’s annual showcase of our nation’s greatest talent kicking off this week, we take a look at this year’s short film selections for Canada’s Top Ten.
Debuting both on HBO and at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto at the same time, Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom’s moving, funny, poignant, and insightful documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie …
After over 100 appearances on screen, it shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that Jackie Chan, one of the foremost names in action cinema, can’t do the daring, often …
Our Senior Film Writer Andrew Parker counts down what he thinks are the 50 best films of 2016.
