By John Corrado Spider-Man: No Way Home was one of the biggest and most buzzed about movies of last year, and now the film is being released on Blu-ray, 4K and DVD this week. Directed by Jon Watts, the film serves as both the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Writer-director Martin Edralin’s debut feature Islands is a simmering and powerful portrait of the loneliness epidemic as seen through the eyes of Joshua (Rogelio Balagtas), a very shy Filipino immigrant living in Toronto. Joshua is a middle-aged man who still lives with his elderly parents. He’s never had… Read More Review: Islands
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Minamata, the new film starring Johnny Depp, got a publicity boost recently when fans of the actor helped make it the third place winner in the ill-conceived Oscars Fan Favourite category presented during this year’s Academy Awards. That the actor’s supporters could essentially game the online voting system… Read More VOD Review: Minamata
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The second film from co-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who are credited collectively as Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once is an audacious sophomore feature that puts a variety of genres, filmmaking styles and sci-fi ideas into a blender, and hits spin to create a singularly entertaining… Read More Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Nate Foster (Rueby Wood), the title character in Disney’s surprisingly charming Better Nate Than Ever, is an honest to goodness theatre kid. You know, the sort that sings into his hairbrush, memorizes Fiddler on the Roof, and fantasizes about winning a Tony. He has big Broadway dreams, if… Read More Disney+ Review: Better Nate Than Ever
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Did Richard Linklater really go to the moon as a kid? Not likely, but his latest film, the very charming and sweetly nostalgic Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, will make you believe he might have for a little over ninety minutes. Done in a similar rotoscoped animation… Read More Netflix Review: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Director Justin Kurzel’s film Nitram follows in the footsteps of Paul Greengrass’s 22 July, Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique and Gus van Sant’s Elephant (a fictionalized take on Columbine), as a film that dramatizes a real life mass shooting. In the case of Kurzel’s film, it dramatizes the events surrounding… Read More Review: Nitram
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
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