By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto When it opened fifty years ago in 1976, the CN Tower instantly became a focal point of Toronto. It was the tallest building in the world, and would remain so for decades until the Burj Khalifa was… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: The Tower That Built a City
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 1st, 2026. Theatrical Releases: The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Wide Release): This twenty years later sequel to the 2006 modern classic, which scored Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, finds former assistant Andy Sacks (Anne Hathaway) returning… Read More New This Week (05/01/2026): The Devil Wears Prada 2, & More!
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Janay Boulos is a Lebanese journalist living in London, working as an Arabic correspondent for the BBC. Abd Alkader Habak is a photographer in Syria, forced to flee from the city of Idlib to Aleppo, as the… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Birds of War
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Director Tommy Avallone’s flashy documentary Myspace is a look at the rise and fall of the original social media platform, taking us back to the internet culture of the early to mid-2000s. Avallone explores the history of… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Myspace
By John Corrado It’s somehow been twenty years since the release of The Devil Wears Prada in 2006, which netted Meryl Streep one of her many Oscar nominations for her ice queen performance as Miranda Priestly, the Anna Wintour-inspired editor of a New York fashion magazine. Now we have a sequel, The Devil Wears Prada… Read More Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Kenny Loggins is the latest musical artist to get a career retrospective in the form of a documentary. Directed by Dori Berinstein, Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart is a portrait of the musician, who scored massive… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Quebec filmmaker Jean-François Caissy’s Kindergarten unfolds almost like a nature documentary, only we are following human children instead of animals. Caissy’s film is set in a daycare centre in Quebec, and his approach involves just putting a… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Kindergarten
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto The latest film from Canadian documentary filmmaker Barry Avrich (The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, Born Hungry), This Above All: The Theatrical Life of Antoni Cimolino serves as a polished biographical portrait of a man who… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: This Above All: The Theatrical Life of Antoni Cimolino
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto In the slice-of-life documentary On My Own Terms, director Tadeusz Chudy follows teenaged half-siblings Pawel and Julka, who are living together at an orphanage in Poland. Pawel is a promising young boxer, whose coach sees a lot… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: On My Own Terms
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto When Mahsa Amini was arrested by the morality police in Iran for violating the country’s mandatory hijab laws, and later died in custody, her death sparked the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement when activists would risk and in… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: A War on Women
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto The world is facing a loneliness epidemic, with people starved for connection but struggling to meet each other in real life. Dating apps are filling that void, but come with their own set of challenges; these apps… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Love Apptually
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto In their documentary Gimme Truth, co-directors Simon Ennis and Brad Abrahams explore modern conspiracy theories, by introducing us to a variety of subjects who believe in them. Their views range from vaccine skeptics to 9/11 truthers. These… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Gimme Truth
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto In her documentary Black Zombie, director Maya Annik Bedward ties the modern zombie lore we see in horror movies and TV shows back to the history of Haiti and the ancient spiritual practice of Vodou. Bedward traces… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Black Zombie
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto The documentary Nekai Walks opens with a beat-by-beat account of the night that Nekai Foster got shot in the head in Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood. It was summer, and he was walking home from playing basketball,… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Nekai Walks
By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 24th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Michael (Wide Release): The long-hyped Michael Jackson biopic from director Antoine Fuqua is finally arriving in theatres. It’s got a surprisingly low Rotten Tomatoes score (only 40% at the time of this writing), but I found it to be entertaining as… Read More New This Week (04/24/2026): Michael, Mother Mary, I Swear, & More!
By John Corrado Titled after the Polish word for “eruption,” as in “volcanic,” Erupcja is an indie movie travelogue set in Poland, that provides a scrappy portrait of modern friendship and relationships, starring none other than pop star Charli XCX. The story follows Charli XCX’s Bethany, a British woman who is on vacation in Warsaw… Read More Movie Review: Erupcja
By John Corrado The tagline for Mother Mary, the latest film from writer-director David Lowery, is “this is not a ghost story.” It’s a bit of a misnomer, because Mother Mary arguably is one. But it does cleverly differentiate this bold effort from Lowery’s low-key, experimental 2017 film A Ghost Story, an understated gem which… Read More Movie Review: Mother Mary
By John Corrado Here we have it, folks. The first trailer has officially been released for Coyote vs. ACME, the live-action and animation hybrid Looney Tunes film that got cancelled by Warner Bros. as a tax write off, before being sold to Ketchup Entertainment. The fact that this film is being released at all is… Read More First Trailer for Coyote vs. ACME!
By John Corrado Orangutan is the latest Earth Day release from Disneynature, a tradition that now stretches back over fifteen years. This one follows Indah, a 9-year-old orangutan (we are told that makes her a teenager in human years) in the jungles of Southeast Asia, living with her mother Diann and new baby brother Bimo.… Read More Movie Review: Disneynature’s Orangutan (Disney+)
By John Corrado Amidst the modern biopic boom, the Michael Jackson biopic has finally arrived. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer trilogy, Training Day), and starring the late King of Pop’s real life nephew Jaafar Jackson, who is uncanny as his uncle, Michael is about the rise of Michael Jackson, and really only the rise.… Read More Movie Review: Michael
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