By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Inside Out Film Festival is running virtually from May 27th to June 6th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Ontario Set against the luscious backdrop of the South of France, writer-director Marion Hill’s sensual debut feature Ma Belle, My Beauty explores the aftermath… Read More #InsideOut21 Review: Ma Belle, My Beauty
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Disney’s latest live action film to be based on one of their classic animated properties, Cruella is the weirdest and most unique of the studio’s recent remakes, which is to say that it’s also one of their best. After a string of fine but needless retreads like Aladdin,… Read More Disney+ Review: Cruella
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A Canadian animated film from the Quebec company 10th Ave Productions, Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa is an enjoyable family adventure movie set in the Magdalen Islands. The film follows a 12-year-old boy named Felix (Daniel Brochu), who believes that his fisherman father, who disappeared at sea… Read More VOD Review: Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The opening scene of Wrath of Man, the latest action film from director Guy Ritchie, feels like somewhat of a departure for the usually hyper-stylized filmmaker. The tense, deliberately paced sequence follows a pair of security guards having their cash truck violently hijacked by armed, masked assailants. But… Read More VOD Review: Wrath of Man
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Following their animated Scooby-Doo movie Scoob! from last year, Warner Bros. continues trying to revive classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters with mixed results in Tom & Jerry, a hybrid of live action and animation that brings the constantly fighting cat and mouse back to the screen. But, instead of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tom & Jerry
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, the director’s new zombie heist movie that is premiering on Netflix this weekend, is the sort of genre film that is made by a filmmaker with confidence in his style. And, after Zack Snyder’s Justice League, aka the fabled Snyder Cut, was… Read More Netflix Review: Army of the Dead
By John Corrado Disney’s latest animated film Raya and the Last Dragon, which was released to Disney Plus with Premier Access in March, is now available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD as of May 18th, following its Digital release on April 2nd. I reviewed Raya and the Last Dragon when it came out,… Read More Raya and the Last Dragon is Now Available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Based on the stage show Strike!, Stand! is a Canadian musical that dramatizes the events surrounding the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, an important moment in the history of labour rights in our country. The film, which was shot in Winnipeg and screened theatrically in Canada for the… Read More VOD Review: Stand!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Outside Story, a gentle New York City dramedy written and directed by Casimir Nozkowski, is one of those films that takes a somewhat simple premise – a man getting locked out of his apartment – and blossoms it out into something delightful and often wonderful. The main… Read More VOD Review: The Outside Story
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The fairly entertaining dark comedy Eat Wheaties! is one of those quirky indie films that is built around such an oddball premise that it pretty much automatically piques your interest. Written and directed by Scott Abramovitch, and inspired by Michael Kun’s book The Locklear Letters which focused on… Read More VOD Review: Eat Wheaties!
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The messy breakdowns of marriages and family units are fertile ground for indie films, and writer-director Robert Machoian adds an element of suspense to the genre in his sparse, minimalistic drama The Killing of Two Lovers. The film revolves around David (Clayne Crawford), a working class father of four. He… Read More VOD Review: The Killing of Two Lovers
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest from British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, In the Earth is a low-budget horror film that was shot in the woods over fifteen days last August during lockdown, using the real life COVID-19 pandemic as inspiration for its virus-themed story. This unique production history is also the most… Read More VOD Review: In the Earth
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Set in Australia’s Northern Territory in the first half of the 20th century, High Ground is an Australian western that grapples with the country’s dark history of colonialism and violence against Indigenous peoples. The film opens in 1919, with a young Aboriginal boy named Gutjuk (played as a… Read More VOD Review: High Ground
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Matt (Ed Helms) and Anna (Patti Harrison), the two people at the centre of Together Together, a film that uses the artifice of a rom-com to explore even deeper themes of friendship, aren’t together together, hence the film’s title. He is a single man in his mid-forties who… Read More VOD Review: Together Together
By John Corrado Hot Docs has officially come to a close, with the final announcement of the coveted Audience Awards revealing the top twenty films that resonated the most with viewers during the virtual festival. In first place is director Franz Böhm’s Dear Future Children, which follows three young female activists in Chile, Hong Kong… Read More #HotDocs21 Audience Award Winners
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Titled after his old motto “we are as gods and might as well get good at it,” the documentary We Are As Gods offers… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: We Are As Gods
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada There have been several documentaries made so far about the COVID-19 pandemic, and filmmaker Nanfu Wang’s In the Same Breath is by far the… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: In the Same Breath
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Directed by Yung Chang, who was brought onboard to assemble the film out of three hundred hours of footage that was shot by a… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Wuhan Wuhan
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Josiah Wilson was born in Haiti and adopted as a baby by a Heiltsuk father and a white mother, and raised as part of… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: One of Ours
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Filmmaker Katherine Knight crafts an engaging portrait of acclaimed Canadian artist Max Dean in her documentary Still Max, which offers an interesting look at… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Still Max
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