Funny Boy, Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of the 1994 bestselling novel by Shyam Selvadurai, is a mostly successful drama that works well when at its best, but occasionally delivers …
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.
Black Beauty, a modern day retelling of Anna Sewell’s frequently adapted novel, is a melodrama that the whole family could enjoy with relative ease.
Zappa, the latest film from documentarian and actor Alex Winter, is a look at the favourite musician of many of your favourite musicians.
It wouldn’t be the holidays without a dysfunctional family comedy featuring an all star cast, and Happiest Season has come along to comfortably and amusingly fill that void towards the …
The limited series equivalent of a comedically nasty, but pleasingly intoxicating beach read, The Flight Attendant is an intricately drawn mystery that moves at a swift, effortlessly bingable pace.
An eye catching and frequently amusing bit of prehistoric fun for the whole family, The Croods: A New Age, might not be a necessary animated sequel, but at least it’s …
A noticeable comedown in quality from its already uneven predecessor, The Christmas Chronicles: Part 2 is a cheap and lazy sequel.
An empowering and emotionally authentic depiction of a teenager put into a dire situation, British director Sarah Gavron’s Rocks is gutting and hopeful in equal measure.
Nathalie Bibeau’s Canadian documentary The Walrus and the Whistleblower (which picked up one of the Audience Award prizes at Hot Docs earlier this year) is the perfect marriage of a …
Hillbilly Elegy, director Ron Howard’s latest and most blatant stab at dramatic Oscar glory in a decade, is an objectionable, polished, sanitized take on important subject matter
