The light beer equivalent of Braveheart, David Mackenzie’s competent, but relatively pointless epic Outlaw King has plenty of bloodshed, lots of actors shouting impassionedly, expertly lensed melees, picturesque locations, and …
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.
80% war movie, 20% horror flick, and 100% fun, director Julius Avery’s gory throwback adventure and exploitation picture Overlord is one of the best thrillers of the year.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web acts simultaneously as an entertaining, if admittedly lesser sequel to David Fincher’s previous adaptation of the same literary characters to the big screen a …
Documentarian Gabe Polsky asks a lot of intriguing questions about the drive, determination, and skill level of athletic overachievers with the playful and thought provoking In Search of Greatness.
Dear Ex opens the 22nd annual Reel Asian festival in Toronto this week with the Canadian premiere of a complex, poignant, and timely Taiwanese tale of grief, bigotry, and familial …
We sit down with Garrard Conley, author of the memoir Boy Erased, to talk about his experiences as a survivor of conversion therapy and the film adaptation of his powerful …
An examination of a chapter in Canadian history that some have tried hard to forget and even more were completely unaware of, Ryan Boyko’s documentary That Never Happened looks at …
In addition to the film itself and the feature length look back at the production’s rocky history, Netflix and the people driving the restoration and completion effort behind The Other …
The story behind the laborious making of Orson Welles’ final masterpiece The Other Side of the Wind is just as fascinating, beguiling, and contradictory as the film itself, and Oscar …
Unseen and unfinished for over forty years, The Other Side of the Wind, the final film embattled auteur Orson Welles was attempting to make long before he passed away in …