By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Acclaimed independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, one of cinema’s finest surveyors of Americana, delivers one of her finest works yet with First Cow, a film that works as both a bracing frontier drama exploring themes of greed and early capitalism, and as a compelling, understated character study. The film,… Read More VOD Review: First Cow
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The latest from Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, Guest of Honour unfortunately follows in the footsteps of several of his other disappointing late career works; it’s a dramatic thriller that takes topical themes and buries them in an overly complicated and melodramatic package. The film tells the story of… Read More VOD Review: Guest of Honour
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on the true story of the singing group The Fisherman’s Friends, a group of locals from Port Isaac, Cornwall who became unlikely musical stars with their traditional renditions of old sea shanties, Fisherman’s Friends is a British feel-good film in the vein of The Full Monty and… Read More VOD Review: Fisherman’s Friends
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) James Odin (Adrian Glynn McMorran), a man with the ability to see glimpses of the future, ends up embroiled in a diamond smuggling ring while trying to stay one step ahead of the visions that he keeps having of his own own murder, in the ambitious indie sci-fi… Read More VOD Review: Volition
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