By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. Director Marie-Geneviève Chabot’s documentary Beneath the Surface follows three adult brothers who reunite with their father for a fishing trip in Quebec, in hopes… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: Beneath the Surface
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2016 film Sing was a cute and colourful animated jukebox musical from Illumination, the studio best known for the Despicable Me movies. It was a crowdpleaser that knew exactly what it was trying to be; you know, a bunch of animated animals performing a variety of upbeat… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Sing 2
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. In horseback riding terms, a “long rider” is someone who has done over a thousand miles in a single equestrian trip. Director Sean Cisterna’s… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: The Long Rider
By John Corrado What the hell was that? That is honestly my only reaction to the 94th Academy Awards. Not because of the winners themselves, which for the most part were safe and predictable, with Jane Campion taking home Best Director (deservedly so) for The Power of the Dog, and CODA prevailing in the Best… Read More Winners of the 94th Academy Awards
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Parallel Mothers is nominated for Best Actress (Penelope Cruz) and Best Original Score (Alberto Iglesias) at the 94th Academy Awards Parallel Mothers, the latest film from Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar, follows Janis Martínez Moreno (Penélope Cruz) and Ana Manso Ferreras (Milena Smit), two mothers who give birth on… Read More Review: Parallel Mothers
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Lost Daughter is nominated for Best Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Jessie Buckley) and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards. What does it mean to be a bad mother? And is the feeling that you aren’t doing a good enough job something that all… Read More Review: The Lost Daughter
By John Corrado The 94th Academy Awards are this weekend, which means it’s time for my annual predictions in all 23 categories. I’m not super confident in some of these, least of which the suddenly very competitive Best Picture race between CODA and The Power of the Dog, so we’ll see how I do tomorrow… Read More My 2022 Oscar Predictions
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. A few years back, Canadian filmmaker Jeremy LaLonde and actor Jonas Chernick collaborated together on the Canadian time travel comedy James vs. His Future… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: Ashgrove
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. If you stumbled upon a bag of cash with no one around and no apparent owner, would you keep it for yourself, or report… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: A Small Fortune
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Tom Longboat was an Onondaga marathon runner from Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, who won the Boston Marathon in 1907. And it’s his ghost (portrayed by Asivak Koostachin) who inspires Beck (Dakota Ray Hebert), the protagonist of writer-director Zoe Leigh Hopkins’ inspirational sports dramedy Run Woman Run, to… Read More Review: Run Woman Run
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Eyes of Tammy Faye is nominated for Best Actress (Jessica Chastain) and Best Makeup & Hairstyling at the 94th Academy Awards. The first thing we see in The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a closeup on Jessica Chastain’s face, buried under a heavy layer of makeup and… Read More Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. Alexandre (Robert Naylor) is a firearms instructor working at the Canadian customs college, training customs officers how to fire guns that the government has… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: The Noise of Engines
By John Corrado Released in theatres on March 24th, 1972, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is one of the most acclaimed American movies ever made. The film is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and Paramount is honouring this milestone by releasing The Godfather Trilogy in 4K Ultra HD for the first time ever. The… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Godfather Trilogy: 50th Anniversary
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest starts tonight and runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. Tehranto, writer-director Faran Moradi’s crowdfunded feature debut, is a Canadian romantic dramedy that explores the very different experience of two Iranian… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: Tehranto
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) CODA is nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur) and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards. The title of CODA is an acronym that stands for Child of Deaf Adults, and the film centres around Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones), a teenager who is as… Read More Review: CODA
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A lone toll booth operator (Michael Smiley) in the middle of Wales has been robbed of his cash, watch and sandwich by a gang of girls wearing balaclavas. When local traffic cop Catrin (Annes Elwy), starts digging into his claims, she starts to discover a criminal past he… Read More VOD Review: Tollbooth
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Cheaper by the Dozen, the latest Disney+ Original Movie that is being dropped on the streaming service this week, styles itself as a remake of the 2003 Steve Martin comedy of the same name, which was itself a remake of a 1950 film that was in turn based… Read More Disney+ Review: Cheaper by the Dozen
By John Corrado Director Antoine Fuqua’s 2007 action film Shooter is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and Paramount is marking the occasion by releasing the film for the first time on 4K Ultra HD in a new, limited edition SteelBook package. Mark Wahlberg stars as Bob Lee Swagger, a former Marine sniper who is… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Shooter: 15th Anniversary (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Written, directed, produced by and starring actress Agam Darshi, Donkeyhead is a Canadian dramedy that centres around a South Asian family and explores the tensions between four adult siblings dealing with their father’s impending death. Mona Ghuman (Darshi) is a failed novelist in her mid-thirties, plagued by self-doubt… Read More Review: Donkeyhead
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” was the question asked in the title of Phillip K. Dick’s novel that provided the basis for sci-fi classic Blade Runner, and Korean-American filmmaker Kogonada’s After Yang asks if humans would grieve an android’s “death.” Kogonada’s second film as director following his… Read More Review: After Yang
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