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 Eyes of Tammy Faye is nominated for Best Actress (Jessica Chastain) and Best Makeup & Hairstyling at the 94th Academy Awards. The first thing we see in The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a closeup on Jessica Chastain’s face, buried under a heavy layer of makeup and… Read More Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
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 ★★★ (out of 4) CODA is nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur) and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards. The title of CODA is an acronym that stands for Child of Deaf Adults, and the film centres around Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones), a teenager who is as… Read More Review: CODA
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A lone toll booth operator (Michael Smiley) in the middle of Wales has been robbed of his cash, watch and sandwich by a gang of girls wearing balaclavas. When local traffic cop Catrin (Annes Elwy), starts digging into his claims, she starts to discover a criminal past he… Read More VOD Review: Tollbooth
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Cheaper by the Dozen, the latest Disney+ Original Movie that is being dropped on the streaming service this week, styles itself as a remake of the 2003 Steve Martin comedy of the same name, which was itself a remake of a 1950 film that was in turn based… Read More Disney+ Review: Cheaper by the Dozen
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) We can all surely remember what it was like to experience growing pains and pubescent mood swings brought on by deep hormonal changes. But what if those mood swings caused you to physically transform into, say, a giant red panda? That’s the predicament that Meilin Lee (Rosalie Chiang),… Read More Disney+ Review: Turning Red
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The setup for director Mimi Cave’s Fresh is a classic “meet cute” between two people, of the sort that any good romantic comedy should have. Her name is Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones). She is a young woman who’s tired of the dating game, from swiping right on apps to… Read More Disney+ Review: Fresh
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Early on in director Stephen Fingleton’s Nightride, a new single take thriller shot in Belfast, two characters discuss Michael Mann movies. One character says Miami Vice is his favourite. The other scoffs slightly. Is he more of a Heat man? No, Mann’s debut Thief is his personal favourite.… Read More VOD Review: Nightride
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Taylor Adams, No Exit is a surprisingly effective little thriller that contains itself almost entirely to a single location, building a chilling mystery around a young addict, a kidnapped girl, and a group of potential suspects, all trapped… Read More Disney+ Review: No Exit
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) First time director Max Lowe explores his family history in the National Geographic documentary Torn, offering a complex and moving portrait of paternal figures and how families heal in the aftermath of tragedy. Lowe’s father was famed mountain climber Alex Lowe, who died in an avalanche on Shishapangma… Read More Disney+ Review: Torn
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Malcolm Ingram, Clerk. is an entertaining documentary that looks at the career of filmmaker Kevin Smith, offering a complete portrait of him as director, podcaster and comic book fan. Through interviews with a number of people in Smith’s inner circle, the film takes us through the… Read More VOD Review: Clerk.
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Despite unceremoniously shutting down Blue Sky Studios last year following their acquisition of 20th Century Fox, Disney continues the company’s signature prehistoric franchise with The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, an in-house spinoff that is being released straight to Disney Plus. The sixth film in the Ice… Read More Disney+ Review: The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Schrödinger’s Cat is a paradoxical thought experiment that involves a hypothetical cat in a box with a vile of poison, and asks if the cat is alive or dead. As the thought experiment goes, it’s both and neither. Either outcome remains possible until we open the box to… Read More VOD Review: Marionette
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Tender Bar, George Clooney’s latest directorial effort, is an adaptation of writer J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name about growing up on Long Island and hanging out at his uncle’s bar. The result is a pretty standard coming of age movie that still has a decent… Read More Review: The Tender Bar
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, following his Oscar-nominated courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, Being the Ricardos is a surprisingly enjoyable biopic of actress Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and her real life husband Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem), who starred alongside her as… Read More Review: Being the Ricardos
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Denzel Washington doing Shakespeare. That’s the pitch for The Tragedy of Macbeth, which finds the actor returning to the pool of William Shakespeare following his supporting turn in Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 film adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, to take on the plum leading role of Macbeth. Washington’s… Read More Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The opening scene of writer-director JJ Winlove’s Australian dramedy June Again tries to put us in the mind of its protagonist, June Wilton (Noni Hazlehurst), a woman suffering from vascular dementia following a stroke five years earlier. People around her seem to appear and disappear as the camera… Read More VOD Review: June Again
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