Today, Paramount is releasing Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 on DVD & Blu-ray. A companion to last year’s admittedly amusing Bad Grandpa, this new feature takes us behind the scenes of the impressive makeup which got the film an Oscar nomination, edited together with some very funny interviews and outtakes involving Ellie (Catherine Keener) and… Read More DVD Release: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5
By John Corrado Two of the best and most important documentaries of 2014 are opening this weekend, with The Case Against 8 and The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz both starting limited runs at the Bloor Cinema today. These are invaluable films that chart the moving human stories behind recent political history,… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Case Against 8 and The Internet’s Own Boy
By John Corrado After premiering at Hot Docs back in 2013, The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne is finally opening at the Bloor Cinema this weekend, and will be playing multiple times until next Thursday. Tickets and showtimes are right here. Although on the surface the 81-year-old Doris Payne seems like a sweet elderly… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
Tim’s Vermeer – A Sony Pictures Classics Release http://sonyclassics.com/timsvermeer/ Blu-ray Release Date: June 10th, 2014 Rated PG for language Running time: 80 minutes Teller (dir.) Conrad Pope (music) Tim Jenison as Himself Penn Jillette as Himself Philip Steadman as Himself David Hockney as Himself Our reviews below: _________________________________________ Tim’s Vermeer Blu-ray Review By John Corrado ****… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tim’s Vermeer
By John Corrado Premiering at Hot Docs back in 2013, Brothers Hypnotic is finally circling back to Toronto this weekend, and will be playing a couple more times until next Thursday at the Bloor Cinema. I enjoyed this one at last year’s festival, and tickets can be found right here. The eight members of the… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: Brothers Hypnotic
By John Corrado After premiering at Hot Docs a few weeks back, 112 Weddings is opening today at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto, and will be playing numerous times over the next week. Below are my thoughts on the film, originally published during the festival. Documentarian Doug Block has filmed over a hundred weddings, leaving… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: 112 Weddings
By John Corrado After winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Short, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life is opening tomorrow at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema and will be playing a few more times until May 20th, co-presented by the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. Tickets can be found right here, and the… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
By John Corrado After premiering at the festival back in 2013, Teenage is opening today for a short run at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, and will be playing throughout the week until May 15th. Tickets can be found right here. Directed by Matt Wolf, Teenage mixes archival footage and grainy reenactments to chart the… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: Teenage
Bears – A Disneynature Release http://nature.disney.com/bears Release Date: April 18th, 2014 Rated G Running time: 77 minutes Alastair Fothergill (dir.) Keith Scholey (dir.) George Fenton (music) John C. Reilly as Narrator (voice) ©Disneynature. All Rights Reserved. Sky and her two cubs Amber and Scout in Disneynature’s Bears. Our reviews below: ___________________________________________________________________________ Bears Review By John Corrado ***… Read More Five Views: Bears
By John Corrado A standout from last year’s Hot Docs and the winner of Best Canadian Feature at the festival, Jason DaSilva’s powerful and inspiring documentary When I Walk is screening tonight at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. The film starts at 7:00 PM, followed by a Skype Q&A with the filmmaker. Jason DaSilva was… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: When I Walk
After premiering at Hot Docs nearly a year ago, Mistaken for Strangers is finally opening this weekend in Toronto. The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema will be hosting a special screening tonight at 6:30 PM, which will be preceded by an introduction from The National. You can find tickets right here, and below are our reviews… Read More Five Views: Mistaken for Strangers
Last week, Remstar Films released the Canadian documentary Takedown: The DNA of GSP on DVD & Blu-ray. Directed by Peter Svatek and Kristian Manchester, the film follows mixed martial artist Georges St-Pierre from his humble upbringing in Québec City, to his reigning title as the UFC welterweight world champion. Most recently, Georges St-Pierre had a… Read More DVD Release: Takedown: The DNA of GSP
Last week, the classic 1991 documentary A Brief History of Time was released on Blu-ray & DVD as part of the Criterion Collection. Based on his bestselling 1988 book of the same name, the film focuses on the life of brilliant astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, shedding light on the debilitating motor neurone disease that has left… Read More Criterion Release: A Brief History of Time
Two weeks ago, Phase 4 Films released The Crash Reel on DVD. The documentary opens a few months before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, as champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce is training to make the team. When tragedy strikes and he suffers a dangerous fall, we are taken back to see his rise to fame,… Read More DVD Release: The Crash Reel
Today, Mongrel Media is releasing the excellent documentary Cutie and the Boxer on all home entertainment platforms, including iTunes. The film reveals the relationship between two aging New York artists with warring styles, the eccentric cardboard sculptor and boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife Noriko, as well as their adult son Alex who is… Read More Digital Release: Cutie and the Boxer
By John Corrado Although we are already several weeks into 2014, the time has finally come to share my thoughts on the best documentaries of 2013, which was an exceptional year for nonfiction filmmaking. I saw so many great films in 2013, and there were a lot of options of what to include on this… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2013
By John Corrado Directed by Jehane Noujaim, The Square opens with a title card that reads “the film you are about to see was filmed over the last two years of revolution in Egypt.” This is followed by the words “the story continues to unfold.” After picking up the People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Square
