By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) It was a rescue dog named Todd that inspired filmmaker John Chester and his wife Molly to give up their urban life in the city and buy an old farm in California, a story that is recounted in his documentary The Biggest Little Farm. John was working as… Read More Review: The Biggest Little Farm

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Disneynature’s Earth Day releases have become somewhat of a tradition over the last decade, starting with Earth in 2009. While we haven’t gotten one every year, this year the studio is back with Penguins. The film opens with our protagonist, an adorable Adélie penguin named Steve, waddling across… Read More Review: Disneynature’s Penguins

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince is one of the most beloved literary works of the past century. The story of a lonely pilot who crash lands in the desert and befriends a young boy from asteroid B-612, the beautifully written novella has the ability to connect with… Read More Review: Invisible Essence: The Little Prince

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Flynn McGarry, the young subject of the documentary Chef Flynn, taught himself to cook at a very young age through cookbooks and YouTube videos. When he was 11 years old, he turned his family’s living room into a makeshift restaurant, with the help of his mother and his… Read More Review: Chef Flynn

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) There are eight hundred dogs born every year at Guide Dogs for the Blind, only three hundred of which will actually make the cut as working guide dogs. The stories of five of these adorable Labrador puppies, and the humans who help raise them, are told in Pick… Read More Review: Pick of the Litter

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta turns her attention to another director in Searching for Ingmar Bergman, offering an engaging and often insightful portrait of the late Swedish master as a filmmaker, an artist and a father. An accomplished auteur in her own right, who was inspired by Bergman’s work… Read More Review: Searching for Ingmar Bergman

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Being a tribute artist can be a lucrative and demanding business, even if your fame largely comes from pretending to be someone else. That’s the main takeaway of Almost Almost Famous, a fairly entertaining documentary that follows a group of classic rock impersonators who are on tour together… Read More Review: Almost Almost Famous

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) From ending up in someone’s engagement photos, to serving drinks at a bar, and even doing the dishes at a random house party, there are a lot of urban legends that exist on the internet about encounters that random people have had with Bill Murray. Colloquially known as… Read More Review: The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Gaining fame as a champion weightlifter and bodybuilder, and also serving in the US Marines, Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was seen as a symbol of stereotypical masculinity, and came across as a classic “strong man.” But Matt always felt there was something different about himself, which he tried to keep… Read More Review: Transformer

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by her longtime friend Steve Loveridge, and featuring a wealth of her own personal videos alongside concert footage, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is an engaging and often exciting look at the life and career of the socially conscious Tamil hip hop star M.I.A., and the controversies that she has courted.… Read More Review: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.