Bloor Cinema Release: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) “What were his values as a citizen,” director Alex Gibney asks in voiceover of his widely celebrated title subject in Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine.  “Was he interested in power to change the world, or the right to have power without responsibility?” This compelling debate about… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Bloor Cinema Release: The Look of Silence

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When the Indonesian military ordered the killing of anyone considered a “communist” in 1965, nearly a million people were rounded up and brutally murdered by death squad leaders, in a mass genocide that remains a blight on their country, which the government would still rather keep out of the history books.… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Look of Silence

Bloor Cinema Release: (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After drawing quite a crowd recently at Hot Docs, (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies is opening at the Bloor Cinema this weekend, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Built around one of his lectures and adapted from his popular book, (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies uses the work of… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies

Bloor Cinema Release: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Assembled from old home movies, interviews with his family and friends, and even animated segments taken right from his journal entries, the electric Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck offers the definitive portrait of this tortured artist, and a gripping exploration of drug addiction and untreated mental illness. After two… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

Review: Monkey Kingdom

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The latest Earth Day release from Disneynature, Monkey Kingdom is arguably the best film yet in the studio’s ongoing series of impressively photographed wildlife documentaries, striking the perfect balance between adorable animals, and emotionally affective drama of the natural world. Taking place in Sri Lanka, the film follows a troop of macaques… Read More Review: Monkey Kingdom

Criterion Release: Hoop Dreams

By John Corrado Last week, the classic 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams was released for the first time on Blu-ray, through the Criterion Collection.  The film follows William Gates and Arthur Agee throughout their high school careers, two inner-city kids in Chicago who dream of playing professional basketball, with the chance of elusive sports scholarships being the only hope their… Read More Criterion Release: Hoop Dreams

Bloor Cinema Release: 1971

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Decades before whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks released classified information through secure digital networks, in 1971 a group of eight political activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole over a thousand private documents which they mailed out to newspapers. But much like the revelations… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: 1971

Bloor Cinema Release: The Backward Class

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After winning the Audience Award at Hot Docs last year, The Backward Class is finally opening at the Bloor Cinema today, and will be playing there until February 16th.  Tickets and showtimes can be found right here. This heartfelt and highly recommended documentary follows the fifteen original students at Shanti… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Backward Class