A look at the impact of depression and grief across generations – thought not always as grim as that description makes it sound – director Christian Einshøj’s personal essay 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.
What starts out as a cheeky, purposefully cringe reliving of one’s adolescent nightmares and neuroses slowly turns into a deeper, meaningful examination of the human condition in documentarian Cecilia Aldarondo’s …
Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure, director Matthew Hashiguchi’s documentary The Only Doctor exposes not only a myriad of failings in the American healthcare system, but also how something meant …
Directors Karen O’Connor, Miri Mavasky, and Maeve O’Boyle spend time getting to know a folk music legend with their documentary Joan Baez I Am A Noise, a biographical film that …
Filmmaker Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized, which opens the 30th edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this week, profiles a tireless advocate for indigenous rights as they approach …
A puzzling disappointment, the dour procedural thriller To Catch a Killer suffers from a staggeringly unbelievable plot, a poor choice of tone, and some unfortunate miscasting.
Although it boasts two of the hottest stars in Hollywood today and a ton of talent behind the camera, Ghosted is little more than some of the most expensive background …
True to the spirit of the film that inspired it, the limited series Dead Ringers captures much of what made David Cronenberg’s effort unnervingly memorable, while also forging its own …
Beau is Afraid, the latest film from “elevated horror” master Ari Aster, is a work of art that exists in two worlds
A bloody good reworking of a famed horror movie franchise, Evil Dead Rise offers a refreshing, gory, and sometimes terrifying twist on a familiar concept.