By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Sean Baker, who broke onto the scene in a really memorable way with the iPhone-shot Tangerine, The Florida Project is a highly empathetic and often breathtaking cinematic work, that might just go down as the best movie of the year. The film follows Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), a six-year-old girl… Read More Review: The Florida Project
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) After the Wonder Woman movie broke box office records earlier this year, we now get to explore the surprisingly kinky origins of the female superhero in the frothily entertaining and well acted biopic Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. The film dramatizes the story of Dr. William Moulton… Read More Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When their daughter Alex (Ryan Simpkins) is accepted into Bucknell University, but loses the town scholarship that she was promised when the city councillor (Nick Kroll) decides to cut the funding, Scott (Will Ferrell) and Kate Johansen (Amy Poehler) are left with little resources to pay for their only child’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: The House
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is an American working as a personal shopper in Paris, choosing and buying clothes for her rich clients to wear. She wants to stay in Paris until she is contacted by her twin brother, who died in the city a year earlier, and promised to… Read More Review: Personal Shopper
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The image of a person dressed as a ghost wearing a white bed sheet with cutout holes for eyes could easily be fodder for laughs or cheap scares, recalling a child’s simple Halloween costume. But this image is used in ways much more sombre and sorrowful than that… Read More Review: A Ghost Story
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) At the start of Loving Vincent, a title card tells us that we are about to see the first ever fully hand painted feature film, crafted by a team of a hundred dedicated artists, many of whom spent years working on the film. The result is an astonishing… Read More Review: Loving Vincent
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) John and Amanda Leyden are an older married couple who have spent over forty years working together and teaching students at the Headfort School, the last remaining preparatory boarding school in Ireland for elementary school kids aged 7 to 13. John and Amanda are the subjects of School… Read More Review: School Life
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Francine is a young black girl living in North York’s Villaways neighbourhood. But the affordable housing units where she lives with her father, grandmother and two autistic brothers are facing a forced revitalization project set forth by the city, meaning that the residents will have to leave their homes… Read More Review: Unarmed Verses
By John Corrado Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) is a young sailor whose father Will (Orlando Bloom) is doomed to a life underseas on the Flying Dutchman. The Trident of Poseidon is the only thing that can break his curse, and Henry’s best hope of finding it is to be guided by the generally inebriated Captain Jack Sparrow… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Stephen King’s 1986 novel It is a mammoth text that has become a definitive classic of the horror genre, following a group of friends in the small town of Derry, Maine who have to band together to defeat a terrifying demonic figure who takes the form of a… Read More Review: It
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Filmed over five years at four different donkey sanctuaries in the UK, Ireland, New York State and Guelph, Ontario, Do Donkeys Act? is an experimental art documentary that offers a quiet yet often profound exploration of animal sentience, guided along by Willem Dafoe’s poetic narration. These sanctuaries provide… Read More Review: Do Donkeys Act?
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The fifth film in Michael Bay’s blockbuster franchise that started a decade ago, Transformers: The Last Knight finds our world facing a devastating war between Autobots and Decepticons. Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) has been made to turn against his human allies, determined to save his home planet Cybertron,… Read More Blu-ray 3D Review: Transformers: The Last Knight
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Rebecca Skloot (Rose Byrne) is a science journalist who becomes fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks (Renée Elise Goldsberry), a Baltimore woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951, and had her cells harvested while she was being treated at Johns Hopkins. Known as Hela, her cells… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Adapted from his memoir of the same name, Stronger recounts the true story of Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), who was standing near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in 2013 to cheer for his ex-girlfriend Erin (Tatiana Maslaney), when two terrorists set off a homemade pressure cooker bomb. Jeff… Read More Review: Stronger
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Brad Sloan (Ben Stiller) is living a decent life in Sacramento, with a nice home, a good job at a non-profit that he started, a loving wife (Jenna Fischer) and a teenaged son Troy (Austin Abrams) who is getting ready to forge his own path in the world.… Read More Review: Brad’s Status
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Dramatizing the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), Battle of the Sexes sets itself up to be as much a story of chauvinism vs feminism as it is a sports movie. Billie Jean King is fresh off her win at… Read More Review: Battle of the Sexes
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A blockbuster that instantly became a cultural phenomenon when it was released in theatres earlier this year, Wonder Woman is an entertaining superhero movie that also broke several important records, becoming the highest grossing live action film ever from a female director. The film brings to the screen… Read More Blu-ray Review: Wonder Woman
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Jess (Scarlett Joahnsson) is about to get married in the middle of her election campaign for senate, when Alice (Jillian Bell) and her other college friends Blair (Zoë Kravitz) and Frankie (Ilana Glazer) decide to throw her a wild bachelorette party in Miami. Jess’s Australian friend Pippa (Kate McKinnon)… Read More Blu-ray Review: Rough Night
By John Corrado One of the most well liked movies of the year, The Big Sick recounts the real life love story between struggling comic Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) and Emily (Zoe Kazan). But their relationship is complicated by the fact the he is Pakistani and his parents (Anupam Kher and Zenobia Shroff) are trying to… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Big Sick
By John Corrado Megan Leavey (Kate Mara) is a young soldier who joins the armed forces as a way out of her dead-end life. She is put to work in the K9 unit, and sent to Iraq with a troubled dog named Rex whom she is able to bond with. When Rex ends up saving… Read More Blu-ray Review: Megan Leavey
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