Eli Roth’s long awaited Thanksgiving is the type of raucous, go-for-broke, whodunnit slasher film that doesn’t get made much these days outside of the ongoing Scream franchise.
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.
Trolls Band Together, the third theatrically released animated movie musical based on the popular toys with the funky looking hair, is aimed squarely at two key demographics: the youngest moviegoers …
Despite its overall clunkiness, Taika Waititi’s inspirational sports comedy Next Goal Wins has its heart in the right place and charm to spare.
Stylish, civic minded, well acted, and ultimately disappointing, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s twisty mystery A Murder at the End of the World has put its emphasis in all the …
A winning and emotionally balanced coming of age comedy, Imran J. Khan’s first feature Mustache (the Centrepiece presentation of this year’s Reel Asian Film Festival) is among the finest teen …
Journey to Bethlehem, a musical retelling of the events leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ, dully plods along on a wave of cheap production and unmemorable songs.
No matter where (or even if) iconic Quebecois filmmaker and satirist Denys Arcand’s career goes from this point onward, his eleventh film Testament – which has all the hallmarks of …
Chrisann Hessing’s profound and complex documentary We Will Be Brave seeks to challenge commonly held views about masculinity through the collective viewpoints of racialized male identifying and non-binary persons struggling …
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 …
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 …