By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) When country superstar Liam Page (Alex Roe) returns to his Louisiana hometown, he starts to reconnect with his long lost fiancé Josie (Jessica Rothe), whom he left at the altar eight years earlier. Liam discovers that he has a daughter (Abby Ryder Forston) that he never knew about,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Forever My Girl
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a contract killer who works for a Boston crime family led by the powerful patriarch Benny (Danny Glover). But her life takes an unexpected turn when she takes in Danny (Jahi Di’Allo Winston), a boy who is working for a rival crime syndicate,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Proud Mary
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest from Toronto filmmaker Maya Gallus, The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution focuses on a selection of female chefs in Toronto, New York, London and France who are fighting for equal representation in the restaurant business. The chefs talk about their experiences as women in what is still largely seen as a… Read More Review: The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on the true story of the Horse Soldiers, 12 Strong follows the Special Forces team led by Captain Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth) that was deployed to Afghanistan directly following 9/11, and tasked with forging an alliance with an Afghan warlord (Navid Negahban) in order to help take… Read More Blu-ray Review: 12 Strong
By John Corrado The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival came to a close yesterday, with Transformer taking home both the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary, and the general Audience Award as well. Below are my final reviews from the festival. Enjoy! The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret – ★★★ (out of… Read More Hot Docs Reviews: The Reckoning, Andy Irons: Kissed By God, Inventing Tomorrow, Roll Red Roll, MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A., Wind of Swabia
By John Corrado The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival is on until May 6th in Toronto. More information on tickets and showtimes can be found through the links in the film titles. Enjoy! The Feeling of Being Watched – ★★★ (out of 4) The close-knit and predominantly Muslim community of Bridgeview, Illinois has been… Read More Hot Docs Reviews: The Feeling of Being Watched, Letter From Masanjia, Believer, More Human Than Human, Pick of the Litter
By John Corrado The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival is on until May 6th in Toronto. More information on tickets and showtimes can be found through the links in the film titles. Enjoy! United We Fan – ★★½ (out of 4) The dedicated fans who have put together letter writing campaigns and started… Read More Hot Docs Reviews: United We Fan, Behind the Curve, 306 Hollywood, Bathtubs Over Broadway, Minding the Gap, Bachman
By John Corrado The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival is on until May 6th in Toronto. More information on tickets and showtimes can be found through the links in the film titles. Enjoy! The Devil We Know – ★★★ (out of 4) When DuPont brought Teflon onto the market in the 1940s, it… Read More Hot Docs Reviews: The Devil We Know, The White World According to Daliborek, The Cleaners, The Bill Murray Stories, Recovery Boys
By John Corrado The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival is on until May 6th in Toronto. More information on tickets and showtimes can be found through the links in the film titles. Enjoy! Exit Music –★★★ (out of 4) Formerly titled How Do You Feel About Dying, Exit Music follows Ethan Rice, a… Read More Hot Docs Reviews: Exit Music, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Love, Gilda, Gurrumul, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
By John Corrado The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival is on until May 6th in Toronto. More information on tickets and showtimes can be found through the links in the film titles. Enjoy! Three Identical Strangers – ★★★½ (out of 4) When the 19-year-old Bobby arrived at college in 1980, he was treated… Read More Hot Docs Reviews: Three Identical Strangers, I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story, Bisbee ’17, The Game Changers, Shirkers
By John Corrado The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival is on until May 6th in Toronto. More information on tickets and showtimes can be found through the links in the film titles. Enjoy! Transformer – ★★★ (out of 4) Gaining fame as a champion weightlifter and bodybuilder, and also serving in the US Marines,… Read More Hot Docs Reviews: Transformer, The Night of All Nights, Bernie Langille Wants to Know Who Killed Bernie Langille, Golden Dawn Girls, Playing Hard
By John Corrado The 25th edition of the Hot Docs Film Festival kicks off tonight and will be running until May 6th in Toronto. This is the first set of many reviews that I will be posting throughout the festival, and more information on tickets and showtimes can be found through the links in the… Read More Hot Docs Reviews: The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution, Take Light, The Artist and the Pervert, The Accountant of Auschwitz, Chef Flynn, Anote’s Ark
Avengers: Infinity War Review By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Back in 2008, the first Iron Man was released, forever changing the game in terms of both summer blockbusters and comic book movies, and setting the stage for the expansive and carefully orchestrated Marvel Cinematic Universe in the years to come. Ten years and… Read More Three Views: Avengers: Infinity War
By John Corrado One of the highest grossing and most well loved movie musicals of all time, the 1978 classic Grease is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and Paramount is marking the occasion with a new Blu-ray edition of the film that comes in collectible Rydell High yearbook packaging. The film of course stars… Read More Blu-ray Review: Grease: 40th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Everyone’s favourite bear from Peru is back in Paddington 2, a rare sequel that not only lives up to the surprisingly great first film from 2015, but maybe even surpasses it. Paddington (Ben Whishaw) has gotten used to living in London with Mr. (Hugh Bonneville) and Mrs. Brown… Read More Blu-ray Review: Paddington 2
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) It’s hard to watch All the Money in the World without being aware of what went on behind the scenes. The film originally starred Kevin Spacey in the role of J. Paul Getty, but following the sexual assault allegations that surfaced against him in November of last year, the… Read More Blu-ray Review: All the Money in the World
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Adapted from crime novelist Nancy Pickard’s novel of the same name, The Scent of Rain & Lightning follows Jody Linder (Maika Monroe), a young women who finds out that Billy Croyle (Brad Carter), the man who was convicted of killing her parents (Maggie Grace and Justin Chatwin), had his sentence… Read More Review: The Scent of Rain & Lightning
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) After being laid off from his job as an insurance salesman, ex-cop Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson) gets on the same New York commuter train that he has taken for ten years, surrounded by many of the same people. But his commute home takes a dark and unexpected turn… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Commuter
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Winning awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, You Were Never Really Here follows Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), a shell-shocked war veteran who works as a hired gun, tracking down and rescuing underage girls who have been taken for sex trafficking, and killing the… Read More Review: You Were Never Really Here
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Based on the novel by the late author Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse tells the story of Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibwe boy who is taken from his family in Northwestern Ontario in the 1960s, and brought to a Catholic Residential School. At the school, Saul is faced with abuse and is… Read More Review: Indian Horse
