By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Set in 1981 during South Africa’s apartheid rule, Moffie explores the effects of the country’s compulsory military service through the eyes of a young man discovering his sexuality. The main character is Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brümmer), a quiet young man who, at the start of… Read More VOD Review: Moffie
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Set in July of 1995 at the height of the conflict between Bosnia and Serbia, the Oscar-nominated Quo Vadis, Aida? is a gripping and startling film that takes these historical events from nearly three decades ago and puts them into sharp, chilling focus. This conflict is explored through… Read More VOD Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Dramatizing the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (Pål Sverre Hagen), who became the first man to reach the South Pole with his team of explorers on December 14th, 1911, Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition offers a mix of adventure movie and biographical drama that is mostly successful on… Read More VOD Review: Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Women make up less than three percent of all technical and production roles in the music industry, and in 2019, only five out of the top one hundred DJs were women. These are some of the surprising stats presented to us in director Stacey Lee’s documentary Underplayed, which… Read More VOD Review: Underplayed
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Frances Price (Michelle Pfeiffer), the main character in the new film French Exit, is a former New York socialite who doesn’t really know what to do with herself now that she has found she is still alive. You see, she always assumed that she would die before her… Read More Review: French Exit
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) In terms of Liam Neeson action movies, which have basically become a genre unto themselves, The Marksman is a pretty good one. I didn’t really expect to be saying that given the tepid reviews this one has been getting, but I’m glad I gave it a chance, because… Read More Review: The Marksman
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Sugar Daddy, which is premiering tonight as the opening film of the virtual Canadian Film Fest on Super Channel, serves as a compelling showcase for its star Kelly McCormack. McCormack, who also wrote the film’s screenplay, stars as Darren, a classic “starving artist” living in Toronto. She works… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: Sugar Daddy
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) returns in Wonder Woman 1984, a brightly coloured followup to her excellent 2017 solo film that updates the action from World War I to the Reagan era. Where as the first Wonder Woman was a fairly grounded war movie, this one is a big,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Wonder Woman 1984
By John Corrado One of the movies that I got to see at TIFF last year was Shiva Baby, a tightly wound and sharply written comedy set at a shiva that serves as a breakout film for both first time feature director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott. The film is now available to rent… Read More Shiva Baby is Now Available to Rent on the digital TIFF Bell Lightbox
By John Corrado Pixar’s latest film Soul, which was released to Disney Plus subscribers on Christmas Day, is now available on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, DVD and Digital platforms as of today. The film follows Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), a middle school band teacher and aspiring jazz musician whose soul leaves his body… Read More Pixar’s Soul is Now Available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a film that can be fully enjoyed on its own as a piece of rousing superhero entertainment, but the experience grows even richer when you take into account the full history behind how it came to be released. To briefly recap this history,… Read More Review: Zack Snyder’s Justice League
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The feature debut of Canadian co-directors Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer, who’ve made several short films together over the past few years, Violation is a confidently made first feature that serves as an incredibly dark entry into the revenge thriller genre. Sims-Fewer stars in the film as Miriam,… Read More VOD Review: Violation
By John Corrado Florian Zeller’s The Father, which the writer/director adapted from his own stage play of the same name, was among the best movies that I saw at TIFF in 2020, and it has just been lauded with six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Now more audiences will finally get a chance to see… Read More The Father is Now Playing in Select Theatres, and On Demand as of March 26th
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Two weeks after the end of WandaVision, Marvel is debuting their new series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier on Disney Plus, the latest small screen tie-in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I had a chance to preview the first episode in the six-part series, and I’m pleased… Read More Disney+ Review: The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (Episode 1)
By John Corrado Emerald Fennell’s feature directorial debut Promising Young Woman was one of the best movies of 2020, and if you have yet to see it, this is your chance. The film is now available for rent and purchase on Digital platforms, and has just been released on Blu-ray this week. The film not… Read More Promising Young Woman is Now Available on Blu-ray and Digital
By John Corrado The nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards were announced this morning, with eight films (The Father, Judas And The Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal and The Trial Of The Chicago 7) ultimately getting into the Best Picture lineup. David Fincher’s Mank leads the day with a total… Read More Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Five students from different parts of the world who all share a similar entrepreneurial spirit come together to compete at the 2019 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in the new National Geographic documentary Own the Room, which is premiering on Disney Plus this weekend. The five students that the… Read More Disney+ Review: Own the Room
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Alfred “Boogie” Chin (Taylor Takahashi), the main character in Fresh Off the Boat producer Eddie Huang’s feature directorial debut Boogie, is a Taiwanese-American teenager in Queens, New York who dreams of playing professional basketball. Working from his own screenplay, Huang has crafted a film that does a pretty… Read More Review: Boogie
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Robin Wright makes her feature directorial debut with the simply titled Land, a small but emotionally effective portrait of a woman wounded by grief who leaves her life in the city behind to find solitude in the wild. Wright stars in the film as Edee. When we first… Read More VOD Review: Land
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) An elderly couple gets a chance to relive their youth over one magical night in Us Again, a charming and poignant new short film from Walt Disney Animation Studios. It will be playing in theatres in front of Raya and the Last Dragon starting this weekend, before being released… Read More Disney+ Review: Us Again
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