By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival runs from May 26th to June 5th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Directed, written and produced by Canadian filmmaker Kevin Hegge, Tramps! is a documentary that explores the history of the New Romantics, a… Read More Inside Out 2022 Review: Tramps!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival runs from May 26th to June 5th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. A gay dwarf named Peter (Matthew August Jeffers) is roped into taking his sex worker neighbour Winona (Sarah Hay) on an… Read More Inside Out 2022 Review: Unidentified Objects
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) It’s been 36 years since the release of the original Top Gun, but watching the new legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick, which sees Tom Cruise reprising his iconic role as hot shot fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, it’s almost hard to believe that this much time has passed.… Read More Review: Top Gun: Maverick
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) It’s been a decade since Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy came to a close with The Dark Knight Rises in 2012 and ended Christian Bale’s run as the character, with Ben Affleck taking over as the Caped Crusader in the interim for a couple of films before stepping back… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Batman
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest documentary from Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson vs. Monsanto Company examines the massive coverup that agrochemical giant Monsanto engaged in to hide the fact that glyphosate, the key ingredient in their weed-killer Roundup, was carcinogenic to humans. The film, which recently… Read More Review: Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson vs. Monsanto Company
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers is technically the latest in Disney’s long line of live action reboots, reviving the fan favourite Disney Channel cartoon series. But in the hands of director Akiva Schaffer (from comedy troupe The Lonely Island), this one serves as a satirical sendup of the… Read More Disney+ Review: Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A well-meaning parking valet in Beverly Hills gets roped into a scheme pretending to be the boyfriend of a famous movie star to hide her affair with a married man in the new romantic comedy The Valet, which serves as a surprisingly charming remake of the 2006 French… Read More Disney+ Review: The Valet
By John Corrado John Ford’s great 1962 Western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which brought together iconic screen stars John Wayne and James Stewart for the first time, is turning sixty years old this year, and Paramount Home Entertainment is celebrating by releasing the film for the first time on 4K Ultra HD this… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
By John Corrado In honour of the film’s 35th anniversary this year, Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing the 1987 action comedy sequel Beverly Hills Cop II for the first time on 4K Ultra HD this week. This follow up to the 1984 smash hit Beverly Hills Cop sees rough and tumble Detroit cop Axel Foley… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Beverly Hills Cop II: 35th Anniversary (1987)
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Homebound, writer-director Sebastian Godwin’s feature debut, opens with Holly (Aisling Loftus) and her new husband Richard (Tom Goodman-Hill) driving to his ex-wife’s house in the English countryside so that she can meet his three kids and celebrate his youngest daughter Anna’s (Raffiella Chapman) birthday. But they arrive to… Read More VOD Review: Homebound
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Sneakerella, the latest Disney+ Original Movie, is a modern, gender-swapped take on Cinderella, that updates the setting to Queens, New York, adds a selection of upbeat hip-hop songs, and centres around sneaker subculture. This sounds like a bit of a mad gambit, but Sneakerella actually works as a… Read More Disney+ Review: Sneakerella
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Marry Me has so many contrivances within its first twenty minutes that it feels extreme even by the standards of the romantic comedy genre. It relies on a number of far-fetched coincidences in order to bring its two unlikely love interests together, but the film is good-natured enough to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Marry Me
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Canadian director Daniel Roher’s thriller-like documentary Navalny follows Russian opposition leader Alexai Navalny in the aftermath of him being poisoned with the nerve… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Navalny
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In 2002, following the Chinese communist government’s violent crackdown on practitioners of Falun Gong, a group of activists in Changchun hijacked a state-run… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Eternal Spring
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In his first feature documentary 2nd Chance, filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo) introduces us to Richard Davis,… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: 2nd Chance
By John Corrado The 2022 edition of Hot Docs has officially come to a close, with the Top 20 finalists for the festival’s Audience Award being announced this morning. Director Jason Loftus’ documentary about Chinese censorship, Eternal Spring, has taken the first place spot for the general Audience Award, in addition to winning the Rogers… Read More #HotDocs22 Audience Award Winners
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. There is broad scientific consensus that rising carbon emissions are exacerbating climate change, but there is less agreement on what the best alternative… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Atomic Hope – Inside the Pro-Nuclear Movement
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya previously explored the racial biases of algorithms in her documentary Coded Bias. Now she returns with TikTok, Boom., which explores… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: TikTok, Boom.
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The documentary Girl Gang opens with images of a packed crowd of young girls waiting for a celebrity appearance at the mall. Security… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Girl Gang
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Pleistocene Park is the name of the property in remote Siberia where eccentric Russian geophysicist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are trying… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Pleistocene Park
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