By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) While Steven Spielberg’s name doesn’t actually appear on Come Play, the new thriller about a monster who connects to our world through electronic devices, the film is produced by his company Amblin Partners, and the filmmaker’s influence is felt all over it. It’s the way that Come Play… Read More Review: Come Play
By John Corrado The idea of a primetime animated sitcom was very much a novelty when The Flintstones premiered in 1960. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera under their company banner Hanna-Barbera Productions, the show about the “modern Stone Age family” was the first “cartoon” to ever land a primetime slot. And it became… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Flintstones: The Complete Series
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Bong Joon-ho made history earlier this year when his movie Parasite became the first ever international film to take home the Oscar for Best Picture, a stunning win that was complimented by the South Korean filmmaker also winning the award for Best Director. It was a deserved victory… Read More Review: Memories of Murder (Theatrical Re-Release)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Did you ever wonder what that loveable snowman sidekick Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad) was doing in the movie Frozen between the time when Elsa (Idina Menzel) brought him to life while belting out “Let It Go” on the side of a snowy mountain, but before he met… Read More Disney+ Review: Once Upon a Snowman
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Growing up, writer/director Trevor Cameron was always fascinated by stories of his great-great-great-uncle, Gabriel Dumont. A Métis leader and lieutenant to Louis Riel, Dumont is a legendary figure for his involvement in the North-West Rebellions of 1885, gaining him the nickname the “Métis Braveheart.” Wanting to learn more… Read More imagineNATIVE 2020 Review: Shadow of Dumont
By John Corrado Shirley Jackson’s classic 1959 horror novel The Haunting of Hill House has been adapted for the screen a few times over the years, starting with Robert Wise’s faithful 1963 film adaptation The Haunting. More recently, Jackson’s novel provided the inspiration for Mike Flanagan’s 2018 Netflix series of the same name, which was… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Haunting (1999)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Aaron Sorkin has a way with words and a real knack for writing film dialogue, as we already saw, or rather heard, in his scripts for David Fincher’s brilliant Facebook drama The Social Network and Danny Boyle’s structurally inventive biopic Steve Jobs. Sorkin’s gift for writing memorable, rapid… Read More Netflix Review: The Trial of the Chicago 7
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Clouds, a new teen drama that was recently acquired by Disney Plus and is dropping on the streaming service today, is a biopic of Zach Sobiech, the young singer-songwriter with terminal cancer whose bittersweet folk-pop song “Clouds” became a viral hit in 2012 when he was seventeen years… Read More Disney+ Review: Clouds
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A dramatic revenge thriller set in the American suburbia of the 1950s, The Secrets We Keep follows Maja (Noomi Rapace), a Romanian woman who fled her home country following World War II, and has tried her best to forget the past. Maja has established a quiet life in… Read More VOD Review: The Secrets We Keep
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The most obvious comparison to The Curse of Audrey Earnsahw, Canadian filmmaker Robert Thomas Lee’s new period horror film which was produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada, would be The Witch. Like that 2015 film directed by Robert Eggers, Lee’s film is another work of folk horror… Read More Review: The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) In 1969, the Canadian government under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made crucial changes to the criminal code under Bill C-150, partially decriminalizing homosexuality across the country. It was a historic move that struck down archaic “anti-buggery” and “gross indecency” laws, with Trudeau’s famous musing that “there’s no place… Read More Inside Out 2020 Review: Sex, Sin & 69
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Following the death of his parents, Kit (Henry Golding) returns home to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to find a place to scatter their ashes, and discovers that he barely remembers the country that he was forced to leave as a young boy. Having grown up in… Read More Inside Out 2020 Review: Monsoon
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The year is 1995, and Malik (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) has just moved to a small town in Illinois with his partner Aaron (Ari Cohen), seeking a new life for themselves and Aaron’s teenaged daughter Kayla (Jennifer Laporte). But it’s not long before Malik, who still hasn’t recovered from the… Read More Inside Out 2020 Review: Spiral
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Denis Theriault, expanding upon his 2014 short film of the same name, the six-part web series I Am Syd Stone follows a popular but washed up actor struggling with his sexuality during the production of a new film. The series begins with Syd (Travis Nelson), whose… Read More Inside Out 2020 Review: I Am Syd Stone (Web Series)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Troy (Steve Zahn) is the father of Joe (Sasha Knight), who was assigned female at birth but has recently revealed that he is transgender and was born in the wrong body. When Joe’s mother Sally (Jillian Bell) refuses to accept who he is, Troy escapes with him into… Read More Inside Out 2020 Review: Cowboys
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Eddie (Fionn O’Shea) and Amber (Lola Petticrew) are two closeted gay teenagers in Ireland circa 1995, who are tired of the constant homophobic taunts from their classmates and decide to put rumours about their sexuality to rest by pretending to date each other. Despite the destined to be… Read More Inside Out 2020 Review: Dating Amber
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Russell (Thomas Duplessie) is a young drag queen in Toronto, who has turned to drag as a way to perform and express himself after his career as a young actor stalled out. When his boyfriend (Andrew Bushell) dumps him, Russell packs his bags and heads to Prince Edward… Read More Inside Out 2020 Review: Jump, Darling
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) While we hear his voice on the phone beforehand, Bill Murray doesn’t actually show up onscreen until nearly twenty minutes into On The Rocks, his latest collaboration with writer/director Sofia Coppola. But there’s no arguing that his presence is the main selling point of the film. And Coppola… Read More Review: On The Rocks
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Brandon Cronenberg, son of the famed Canadian director David Cronenberg, really does his father proud with his shot in Toronto second feature Possessor, a high concept thriller that offers a mix of graphic violence, graphic sex, and good old fashioned body horror. It’s a potent combination that will… Read More Review: Possessor Uncut
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Jack (John Reynolds) and Su (Sunita Mani) are a typical millennial hipster couple living in Brooklyn. Feeling too attached to their phones, and worried about getting disconnected from each other, they decide to spend a week at a friend’s cabin in upstate New York, vowing not to check… Read More Review: Save Yourselves!
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