By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) After premiering at TIFF, Al Purdy Was Here is starting a limited run at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema tonight, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. A “Sensitive Man” beneath an ultra masculine persona, who rose from his humble working class origins to leave behind a lasting legacy… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: Al Purdy Was Here

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The music documentary All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records is opening at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema this weekend, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Founded by Russ Solomon in the back of his father’s convenience store, Tower Records blossomed into the premiere place for music… Read More Blood Cinema Release: All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After premiering at Hot Docs, and becoming a top twenty finalist for the Audience Award, The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young is opening at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema this weekend, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. With a bizarre application process and… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After premiering at Hot Docs, and becoming a runner-up for the Audience Award, Mavis! opens at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema this weekend, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. A legendary gospel and soul singer, and iconic civil rights activist in the time of Martin Luther King… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: Mavis!

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Ravi Patel, the title subject in the utterly delightful documentary Meet the Patels, is approaching thirty and facing pressure to find a wife.  But this process is complicated by living in a family where Patels always marry Patels, and nobody breaks away from their proud Indian culture. Ravi’s more… Read More Review: Meet the Patels

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Allowing the profoundly important message of its title subject to ring through in every scene, He Named Me Malala is an inspiring documentary about the power for change, that helps illustrate the importance of education and women’s rights. Forced to leave Pakistan with her family, after being shot in the head by the… Read More Review: He Named Me Malala

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) After playing at Hot Docs, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon opens at the Bloor Cinema this weekend, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Through interviews and archival footage, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon entertainingly charts the promising… Read More Review: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) After playing at Hot Docs, Finders Keepers is opening at the Bloor Cinema this weekend, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The truth really is stranger than fiction in Finders Keepers, a compellingly absurd and surprisingly emotional documentary, that recounts the entirely bizarre story of two… Read More Review: Finders Keepers

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Listen to Me Marlon opens at TIFF Bell Lightbox this weekend, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Assembled from old audio recordings of the late actor talking candidly about his life, playing over archival footage and film clips, Listen to Me Marlon gives us a rare… Read More Review: Listen to Me Marlon

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Unbranded opens at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema this weekend, tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Swayed by their love for the Old West, four friends embark on the adventure of a lifetime, adopting a dozen wild mustangs from government holding facilities, and setting out to… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: Unbranded

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

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

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) I saw a lot of good films at Hot Docs, but few have stuck with me the same way as All the Time in the World, the engaging and unexpectedly touching story of a family making a difference by choosing to live more simply.  The film opens at the… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: All the Time in the World

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Providing a fascinating introduction to one of the most unique families likely ever captured on screen, The Wolfpack is the rare documentary that works as both a compelling social study and a surprisingly moving testimony to the saving power of cinema. After screening at Hot Docs, and gaining acclaim at… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Wolfpack

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Through interviews with creator Lorne Michaels, as well as appearances from both former and current cast members, Live From New York! explores the storied beginnings and cultural importance of Saturday Night Live, over the past forty years.  After recently premiering at Hot Docs, the film is opening today at… Read More Review: Live From New York!

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