Although it takes a bit too long to ultimately come together, and it might be a tad stoic, the cinematic adaptation of Kim Thúy’s award winning bestseller Ru still manages …
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 his first feature length documentary, Realm of Satan, director Scott Cummings takes a cheeky, low-key look at people who “manifest” their desires by praising and worshiping the dark lord …
Canada’s Top Ten, TIFF’s annual celebration of some of the past year’s greatest achievements in Canadian cinema, once again showcases a wide range of voices, tones, genres, and styles. From …
The Kitchen is a basic, slow moving, but effective dystopian drama that marks the feature directorial debut of Oscar winning actor Daniel Kaluuya.
An epic drama that looks at a series of interlocking stresses faced by a trio of women in different parts of the world, The Braid takes material that could’ve been …
Memory, the latest English language effort from Mexican auteur Michel Franco, is the kind of drama that constantly flirts with greatness, but never fully achieves it.
Fundamentally solid, unpretentious, bleak, and always thrilling, the space-bound paranoia thriller I.S.S. makes the most of a simple story, outstanding cast, and a kernel of a good idea.
A work of great intensity and paranoia, German filmmaker Ilker Çatak’s The Teachers’ Lounge takes an already emotionally taxing and often thankless job in modern society and pushes things to …
Origin, the latest film from writer-director Ava DuVernay, is an artful and purposeful mess. And I mean mess in a good way.
Although it has been proven time and time again that the truth is often stranger than fiction, the Netflix true crime docuseries American Nightmare takes that statement to a whole …