By John Corrado The title of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest film from French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, refers to Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano), a fictional, composite figure who is shown to be at the centre of Putin’s rise in post-Soviet Russia. Adapted from Emmanuel Carrère’s 2022 novel of the same name, the film… Read More Movie Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin
By John Corrado Would you want your crush to love you more than anyone in the world? That’s the question at the centre of writer-director Curry Barker’s new horror movie Obsession, one of the big breakout films from last year’s Midnight Madness section at TIFF. Bear (Michael Johnston) is a love-lorn young adult who wishes… Read More Movie Review: Obsession
By John Corrado Billie Eilish teams up with none other than visionary filmmaker James Cameron to co-direct Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), a solid concert film that will thrill her fans and provides an eye-popping, visually dazzling 3D experience. While Eilish and Cameron might seem like an… Read More Movie Review: Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
By John Corrado Director Cole Webley’s debut feature Omaha is a quiet heartbreaker of a film that delivers a huge emotional impact as it mixes road movie and family drama. The film opens in the early morning, with a dad (John Magaro) bringing his sleeping son Charlie (Wyatt Solis) out to the car, and waking… Read More Movie Review: Omaha
By John Corrado Following a successful run in theatres, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is being released on physical media this week, including 4K Ultra HD. Fennell’s adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff, in a sweeping period love story. The film mainly received mixed reviews,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Wuthering Heights
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto The Kabin Crew, a group of aspiring child rappers and musicians in Cork, Ireland, went viral in 2024 with the high energy music video for their upbeat song “The Spark.” The kids behind the viral sensation are… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Gealtra
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto In his documentary The Oldest Person in the World, filmmaker Sam Green focuses on people who have lived for over a century. These are the world record holders for longest lifespan, with French woman Jeanne Calment holding… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: The Oldest Person in the World
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Soraya, the young subject at the centre of A Fox Under a Pink Moon, is an Afghan teen girl living in Iran, who is trying to flee across the Turkish border so she can make her way… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: A Fox Under a Pink Moon
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto When it opened fifty years ago in 1976, the CN Tower instantly became a focal point of Toronto. It was the tallest building in the world, and would remain so for decades until the Burj Khalifa was… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: The Tower That Built a City
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Janay Boulos is a Lebanese journalist living in London, working as an Arabic correspondent for the BBC. Abd Alkader Habak is a photographer in Syria, forced to flee from the city of Idlib to Aleppo, as the… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Birds of War
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Director Tommy Avallone’s flashy documentary Myspace is a look at the rise and fall of the original social media platform, taking us back to the internet culture of the early to mid-2000s. Avallone explores the history of… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Myspace
By John Corrado It’s somehow been twenty years since the release of The Devil Wears Prada in 2006, which netted Meryl Streep one of her many Oscar nominations for her ice queen performance as Miranda Priestly, the Anna Wintour-inspired editor of a New York fashion magazine. Now we have a sequel, The Devil Wears Prada… Read More Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Kenny Loggins is the latest musical artist to get a career retrospective in the form of a documentary. Directed by Dori Berinstein, Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart is a portrait of the musician, who scored massive… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Quebec filmmaker Jean-François Caissy’s Kindergarten unfolds almost like a nature documentary, only we are following human children instead of animals. Caissy’s film is set in a daycare centre in Quebec, and his approach involves just putting a… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Kindergarten
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto The latest film from Canadian documentary filmmaker Barry Avrich (The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, Born Hungry), This Above All: The Theatrical Life of Antoni Cimolino serves as a polished biographical portrait of a man who… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: This Above All: The Theatrical Life of Antoni Cimolino
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto In the slice-of-life documentary On My Own Terms, director Tadeusz Chudy follows teenaged half-siblings Pawel and Julka, who are living together at an orphanage in Poland. Pawel is a promising young boxer, whose coach sees a lot… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: On My Own Terms
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto When Mahsa Amini was arrested by the morality police in Iran for violating the country’s mandatory hijab laws, and later died in custody, her death sparked the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement when activists would risk and in… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: A War on Women
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto The world is facing a loneliness epidemic, with people starved for connection but struggling to meet each other in real life. Dating apps are filling that void, but come with their own set of challenges; these apps… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Love Apptually
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto In their documentary Gimme Truth, co-directors Simon Ennis and Brad Abrahams explore modern conspiracy theories, by introducing us to a variety of subjects who believe in them. Their views range from vaccine skeptics to 9/11 truthers. These… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Gimme Truth
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto In her documentary Black Zombie, director Maya Annik Bedward ties the modern zombie lore we see in horror movies and TV shows back to the history of Haiti and the ancient spiritual practice of Vodou. Bedward traces… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Black Zombie
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