By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Early on in director Andrew Moir’s quietly heartbreaking documentary Don’t Come Searching, main subject Delroy Dunkley sings John Denver’s “Leaving on a… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Don’t Come Searching
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In 1958, a trans woman under the pseudonym Agnes Torres convinced the gender clinic at UCLA that she had been born intersex in… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Framing Agnes
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The ASD Band is a musical group made up of guitarist and vocalist Jackson Begley, lead singer Rawan Tuffaha, drummer Spenser Murray, and… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Okay! (The ASD Band Film)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Director Cathryne Czubek’s documentary Once Upon a Time in Uganda takes us behind the scenes of Wakaliwood, the low-budget, high-spirited action movie studio… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Once Upon a Time in Uganda
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Who knew racing pigeons was such a lucrative sport? Director Gavin Fitzgerald’s documentary Million Dollar Pigeons takes us into the increasingly competitive world… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Million Dollar Pigeons
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Director Stacey Tenenbaum’s documentary Scrap opens in White, Georgia, which is the site of Old Car City. Known as the world’s oldest… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Scrap
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Back in 2018, filmmaker Jackie Torrens premiered her short film Bernie Langille Wants to Know Who Killed Bernie Langille at Hot Docs,… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Swedish filmmaker Magnus Gertten’s new documentary Nelly & Nadine reveals the unlikely love story between Nadine Hwang, the Spanish-born daughter of a Chinese… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Nelly & Nadine
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The title of director Cody Sheehy’s thought provoking documentary Make People Better comes from the three words that James Watson, one of… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Make People Better
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Early on in director Nils Gaup’s documentary Images of a Nordic Drama, art collector Haakon Mehren recalls the moment he first laid… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Images of a Nordic Drama
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 28th to May 8th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The women-in-the-workplace comedy 9 to 5, which starred Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton as three women dealing with office harassment… Read More #HotDocs22 Review: Still Working 9 to 5
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. Director Marie-Geneviève Chabot’s documentary Beneath the Surface follows three adult brothers who reunite with their father for a fishing trip in Quebec, in hopes… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: Beneath the Surface
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. A few years back, Canadian filmmaker Jeremy LaLonde and actor Jonas Chernick collaborated together on the Canadian time travel comedy James vs. His Future… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: Ashgrove
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. If you stumbled upon a bag of cash with no one around and no apparent owner, would you keep it for yourself, or report… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: A Small Fortune
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. Alexandre (Robert Naylor) is a firearms instructor working at the Canadian customs college, training customs officers how to fire guns that the government has… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: The Noise of Engines
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Canadian Film Fest starts tonight and runs in two segments from March 22nd to 26th and March 29th to April 2nd, exclusively on Super Channel. Tehranto, writer-director Faran Moradi’s crowdfunded feature debut, is a Canadian romantic dramedy that explores the very different experience of two Iranian… Read More Canadian Film Fest Review: Tehranto
By John Corrado Walt Disney Studios Canada is bringing ONWARD (and a bit backwards): The Pixar Vehicle Experience to the 2020 Canadian International AutoShow, which is running from February 14th to 23rd at Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto. The exhibit brings together vehicles from three Pixar films; the already iconic Lightning McQueen from the… Read More ONWARD (and a bit backwards): The Pixar Vehicle Experience at the 2020 Canadian International AutoShow
By John Corrado Fan Expo has once again taken over the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this weekend, and the fine folks at Walt Disney Studios Canada have brought along some of the costumes and props from Marvel’s upcoming Thor: Ragnarok. The display features the actual costumes worn by the actors in the film, as well as… Read More Thor: Ragnarok at Fan Expo 2017
By John Corrado To mark the release of the new live action Beauty and the Beast next month, Disney is hosting a special exhibit at Casa Loma in Toronto this weekend. We got the chance to preview the exhibit last night at a special event, complete with an aerial show and ballroom dance, and the whole… Read More #BeOurGuestTO: Beauty and the Beast Exhibit at Casa Loma
By John Corrado Back on October 22nd, I had the opportunity to visit Disney’s Cinderella: The Exhibition, an amazing collection of costumes and props from their upcoming live action fairy tale, elaborately set up for two days at CBC headquarters and open only to exhibitors and members of the media. Although bursting to talk about… Read More A Photo Tour of Disney’s Cinderella: The Exhibition
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