By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 7th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Robot Dreams (Limited Release): This Oscar-nominated animated film from Spanish director Pablo Berger follows the friendship between a dog and his robot in 1980s New York City. Seeing this dialogue-free animated film in a packed theatre on the first day of… Read More New This Week (06/07/2024): Robot Dreams, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, & More!
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto Jewish Film Festival runs from May 30th to June 9th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Noam Stein (Charlie Korman) is a closeted teenager keeping his sexuality a secret from his Orthodox family and community. After his grandfather dies, he discovers a love… Read More #TJFF2024 Review: Unspoken
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto Jewish Film Festival runs from May 30th to June 9th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The title of director Amnon Carmi’s indie comedy Yaniv refers to an old Jewish card game originating from Israel, that two teachers in New York see… Read More #TJFF2024 Review: Yaniv (Centrepiece Film)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of Dune: Part Two. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is still one of the best movies of the year so far (and also… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Dune: Part Two
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of Kung Fu Panda 4. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. The fourth film in the DreamWorks Animation franchise that began in 2008, Kung Fu Panda 4 is one… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Kung Fu Panda 4 (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Director Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead is a slow-burn Norwegian zombie movie that takes place in the aftermath of an event that allows the dead to return to life. Based on a book by Let the Right One In scribe John Ajvide Lindqvist (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Hvistendahl), the film… Read More Movie Review: Handling the Undead
By John Corrado The 2024 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival runs from May 24th to June 1st at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The documentary A Mother Apart (which was one of the finalists for the Hot Docs Audience Award) offers a candid portrait of Staceyann… Read More #InsideOut2024 Review: A Mother Apart
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 31st, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Ezra (Limited): Bobby Cannavale stars in this dramedy, which had a gala premiere at last year’s TIFF, as a standup comic trying to do the best for his autistic son Ezra (William A. Fitzgerald), putting him further at odds with his… Read More New This Week (05/31/2024): Ezra, Backspot, & More!
By John Corrado Ezra is the name of the 11-year-old son that standup comedian Max Brandel (Bobby Cannavale) shares with his ex-wife Jenna (Rose Byrne), with disagreements around how to parent him driving a wedge between them. Ezra (William A. Fitzgerald) is autistic; he’s a bright kid who often “movie talks” (using dialogue from movies… Read More Movie Review: Ezra
By John Corrado In his new documentary Jim Henson Idea Man, filmmaker Ron Howard crafts an enjoyable biographical portrait of the creator of The Muppets, Jim Henson. It was the genius and creativity of Henson, who hand-stitched Kermit the Frog out of his mother’s coat, that gave birth to these iconic characters. A fledgling filmmaker… Read More Movie Review: Jim Henson Idea Man (Disney+)
By John Corrado Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard), Bob Marley: One Love is a biopic of iconic reggae artist Bob Marley that features a dedicated performance by Kingsley Ben-Adir, but is otherwise a mixed bag. Ben-Adir, who masterfully portrayed civil rights leader Malcolm X in One Night in Miami, now takes on the… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Bob Marley: One Love
By John Corrado The 2024 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival runs from May 24th to June 1st at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In honour of her 18th birthday, Elliot (Maisy Stella) decides to do shrooms in the woods with her best friends Ruthie (Maddie… Read More #InsideOut2024 Review: My Old Ass
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 24th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Wide Release): George Miller follows up his Oscar-winning 2015 action masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road with this prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger version of Charlize Theron’s Furiosa. I just saw this in IMAX. It’s… Read More New This Week (05/24/2024): Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Garfield Movie, Babes, & More!
By John Corrado The feature directorial debut of actress Pamela Adlon, Babes is a comedy about motherhood and adult friendship, that explores the bond between Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), and how it changes when the former becomes pregnant with her first child after the latter has just had her second. Eden and… Read More Movie Review: Babes
By John Corrado In their documentary The Beach Boys, co-directors Frank Marshall (The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart) and Thom Zimney (Western Stars, Springsteen on Broadway) team up to offer a polished look at the history of the California surf rock band The Beach Boys. Made up of brothers Brian, Dennis… Read More Movie Review: The Beach Boys (Disney+)
By John Corrado Garfield, that lazy, lasagna-loving orange cat from the Jim Davis comic strips, returns to the big screen in Sony’s aptly titled The Garfield Movie. Arriving two decades after the live action Garfield, which had Bill Murray voicing the sarcastic feline, this first fully animated theatrical feature works as an enjoyable caper, that… Read More Movie Review: The Garfield Movie
By John Corrado Made by Sony to capitalize on the success of the MCU, and take advantage of the fact that they still own the Spider-Man rights, Madame Web falls into the Venom or Morbius category of modern comic book movies. The feature directorial debut of S.J. Clarkson, whose previous credits are all in TV,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Madame Web
By John Corrado The title of writer-director John Krasinski’s new movie IF is an acronym that stands for imaginary friend; you know, the friends that children make up in their minds, which tend to get forgotten as they grow up. The story centres around Bea (Cailey Fleming), a 12-year-old girl who is staying with her… Read More Movie Review: IF
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 17th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: IF (Wide Release): This latest from writer-director John Krasinski is an ambitious family movie that stars Cailee Fleming as Bea, a 12-year-old girl who teams up with a man (Ryan Reynolds) who can see imaginary friends, to help them get back… Read More New This Week (05/17/2024): IF, I Saw the TV Glow, & More!
By John Corrado The supernatural revenge thriller The Crow is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, and Paramount has released the film for the first time on 4K Ultra HD. Based on James O’Barr’s comic books, The Crow stars Brandon Lee as Eric Draven, a musician who is murdered on Devil’s Night and returns from… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Crow: 30th Anniversary Edition
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