By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The messy breakdowns of marriages and family units are fertile ground for indie films, and writer-director Robert Machoian adds an element of suspense to the genre in his sparse, minimalistic drama The Killing of Two Lovers. The film revolves around David (Clayne Crawford), a working class father of four. He… Read More VOD Review: The Killing of Two Lovers
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest from British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, In the Earth is a low-budget horror film that was shot in the woods over fifteen days last August during lockdown, using the real life COVID-19 pandemic as inspiration for its virus-themed story. This unique production history is also the most… Read More VOD Review: In the Earth
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Set in Australia’s Northern Territory in the first half of the 20th century, High Ground is an Australian western that grapples with the country’s dark history of colonialism and violence against Indigenous peoples. The film opens in 1919, with a young Aboriginal boy named Gutjuk (played as a… Read More VOD Review: High Ground
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Matt (Ed Helms) and Anna (Patti Harrison), the two people at the centre of Together Together, a film that uses the artifice of a rom-com to explore even deeper themes of friendship, aren’t together together, hence the film’s title. He is a single man in his mid-forties who… Read More VOD Review: Together Together
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Titled after his old motto “we are as gods and might as well get good at it,” the documentary We Are As Gods offers… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: We Are As Gods
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada There have been several documentaries made so far about the COVID-19 pandemic, and filmmaker Nanfu Wang’s In the Same Breath is by far the… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: In the Same Breath
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Directed by Yung Chang, who was brought onboard to assemble the film out of three hundred hours of footage that was shot by a… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Wuhan Wuhan
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Josiah Wilson was born in Haiti and adopted as a baby by a Heiltsuk father and a white mother, and raised as part of… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: One of Ours
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Filmmaker Katherine Knight crafts an engaging portrait of acclaimed Canadian artist Max Dean in her documentary Still Max, which offers an interesting look at… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Still Max
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Shot during the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets to fight against the… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Faceless
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada At Dagmarsminde, a nursing home in Denmark for people with dementia, the staff operate on principles of kindness and compassion, instead of just using… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: It Is Not Over Yet
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada After leaving his older boyfriend in Mexico City, young filmmaker Isidore Bethel returns to Chicago, where he embarks on a new film project. He… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Acts of Love
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada British filmmaker Edgar Wright makes his documentary debut with The Sparks Brothers, an ode to the musical stylings of the band Sparks, which is… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: The Sparks Brothers
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Fabio Zaffagnini wanted to attract the attention of the Foo Fighters in hopes that the band would play a show in his hometown of… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: We Are the Thousand
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Adam Neumann, the founder and former CEO of WeWork, essentially got rich off of selling office space to millennials. But it was more the… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada The title subject of the documentary Misha and the Wolves is Misha Defonseca, a Belgian Holocaust survivor who settled in Massachusetts, where her incredible… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Misha and the Wolves
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada In her short documentary Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again, filmmaker Courtney Montour explores the legacy of Indigenous women’s rights activist Mary Two-Axe… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Director Sheona McDonald’s short documentary Into Light explores the experience of a single mother in Yellowknife, as she helps her young transgender daughter through… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Into Light
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams follow a group of people from Vancouver’s LGBTQ+ community who are working together to sponsor a gay… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Someone Like Me
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Set in the world of competitive tablescaping, Set! is one of those quirky, special interest documentaries that does a good job of introducing us… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Set!
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