British filmmaker Hugh Hudson hasn’t made a fictional motion picture since 2000, and his latest effort, the historical drama Finding Altamira, might not necessarily be any sort of return to …
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.
Twelve years after the last big screen installment of the franchise, novelist Helen Fielding’s monologue loving everywoman heroine returns for Bridget Jones’s Baby, a film that feels a lot fresher …
For the past decade, TUFF, the Toronto Urban Film Festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, has brought TTC riders the best in microshort filmmaking. We talk with founder and …
TIFF 2016 coverage rolls on with reviews of Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, and the award winning Finnish drama The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli …
A trio of reviews kick off our TIFF 2016 coverage, with looks at Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, the animated Canadian effort Window Horses, and the Chinese-Canadian drama Old Stone.
Of the 397 films screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, 101 of them are shorts. Here are 25 of the best.
A confused, misanthropic mess from start to finish, the gorgeous to look at and admittedly well performed adult fantasy The 9th Life of Louis Drax doesn’t make a lick of …
It would be easy to pick on Up for Love as an offensive movie, but in reality, it’s just useless. It’s a stupid film with a stupid premise done stupidly.
The Light Between Oceans hearkens back to the kind of awards bait prestige projects of the 1970s and 80s. It’s a restrained, stately looking effort full of simmering, restrained, tastefully …
The compact, tense, and claustrophobic thriller Don’t Breathe will give horror fans in the mood for some clever scares and constantly foreboding tension something worth raving about for a bit.
