A richly detailed and ingeniously constructed examination into the ways we fear becoming our own parents, Fawzia Mirza’s first feature, The Queen of My Dreams (which opened the 2023 Reel …
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.
A sparse, but fascinating three way South Korean character study, Joongha Park’s Small Fry is an intimate examination of three creative types with vastly different personalities and unspoken connections to …
The Marvels is a film that does ten things wrong for every three things it gets perfectly right, but in the grand scheme of things it still remains rather light …
A social allegory and romance built around literal pits of human excrement, Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto’s Okiku and the World isn’t for the squeamish, but it still manages to be …
Writer-director Teresa Sutherland’s first feature behind the camera, Lovely, Dark, and Deep starts off in an intriguing place before going nowhere slowly.
Director Joe Lynch delivers a love letter to both late genre icon Stuart Gordon and writer H.P. Lovecraft with his frantically paced and wildly amusing genre romp Suitable Flesh.
The Deep Dark, a French survival thriller that took the Feature Film Silver Prize at this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival, is an assuredly intense and exceptionally directed take …
A delightfully charming throwback to the high concept, family friendly sci-fi adventures of the 80s and 90s, UFO Sweden dazzles with good humour and big emotions.
An engaging and smartly written, Czech language sci-fi thriller, Restore Point makes the most of its limited budget by leaning heavily into film noir vibes and healthy layers of subtext.
Well executed and performed, but frequently predictable and sometimes straining credibility, the home invasion thriller The Last Exit gets by on making sure the tension is kept in all the …