By John Corrado Abel Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd) is undoubtedly a Canadian success story, rising from Scarborough to become one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. Tesfaye, who branched out into acting on the HBO series The Idol, now stars as a version of himself in Hurry Up Tomorrow, which serves as a… Read More Movie Review: Hurry Up Tomorrow
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 16th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Friendship (Limited Release): Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave) stars in this absurdist comedy about male friendship. Robinson is Craig Waterman, a lonely suburbanite who befriends his cool guy neighbour (played by Paul Rudd), only for the friendship to go… Read More New This Week (05/16/2025): Friendship, Hurry Up Tomorrow, & More!
By John Corrado How do you even begin to follow an all-timer movie like Parasite, especially after it becomes the first non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Picture? You make Mickey 17, one of the biggest “blank cheque” movies of all time. In following up his landmark Oscar-winner, Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Mickey 17
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 9th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Clown in a Cornfield (Wide Release): This mostly enjoyable slasher movie introduces a new creepy clown into the horror canon; Frendo the Clown, who looms large over the small town of Kettle Springs, where lonely teenager Quinn (Katie Douglas) has just… Read More New This Week (05/09/2025): Clown in a Cornfield, Sharp Corner, & More!
By John Corrado In his sophomore feature Sharp Corner, Canadian writer-director Jason Buxton (Blackbird) presents an offbeat character study of a man who becomes obsessed with the car crashes happening on his front lawn. A film about a car crash fixation could have gone in many different directions (like David Cronenberg’s Crash, one of the… Read More Movie Review: Sharp Corner
By John Corrado You have to respect a film title that tells you exactly what to expect. Think Snakes on a Plane. Or Clown in a Cornfield. That’s the pretty self-explanatory title of this mostly fun new killer clown movie from director Eli Craig, best known for his cult favourite 2010 horror comedy Tucker &… Read More Movie Review: Clown in a Cornfield
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto If you didn’t know that Excel spreadsheets were a thing you could be the best at, well, have I got news for you. There’s a whole competition for it, where students come from around the world to… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: Spreadsheet Champions
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto In their aptly titled documentary They’re Here, co-directors Daniel Claridge and Pacho Velez introduce us to a group of UFO enthusiasts from upstate New York. They all claim to have their own experiences with sightings or encounters,… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: They’re Here
By John Corrado The 2025 edition of Hot Docs has just come to a close, and the winners of the festival’s Audience Awards have just been announced. Coming in first for the Hot Docs Audience Award is Ryan White’s incredibly moving Come See Me in the Good Light, which was also my personal favourite of… Read More #HotDocs25 Audience Award Winners
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto When standup comedian Tig Notaro, one of the producers of Come See Me in the Good Light, faced her own cancer diagnosis, she announced it to the world by opening a show with the line “good evening,… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: Come See Me in the Good Light
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto In their documentary Deaf President Now!, co-directors Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim take us back to the student protests to elect the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University, offering a fantastic, cinematically rendered time capsule of this… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: Deaf President Now!
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto The provocative title of My Boyfriend the Fascist refers to the relationship between self-identified left-wing Italian filmmaker Matthias Lintner and his Cuban boyfriend Sadiel Gonzalez, a right-wing activist fighting communist influences. Lintner’s film takes a verite approach,… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: My Boyfriend the Fascist
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 2nd, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Thunderbolts* (Wide Release): This latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe finds a group of misfits being assembled to save the world in the absence of the Avengers. The team includes Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian… Read More New This Week (05/02/2025): Thunderbolts*, & More!
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto In her documentary Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, director Shoshannah Stern crafts an engaging, intimate portrait of actress Marlee Matlin, who become the first Deaf actor to win an Oscar for her lead performance in the 1986… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto The title of #skoden refers to an Indigenous phrase that is the shorthand of “let’s go, then” said with an Indigenous accent. The saying became immortalized as a meme through a viral image of a Blackfoot man… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: #skoden
By John Corrado One of the upcoming summer films I’m most intrigued by is Weapons, writer-director Zach Cregger’s highly anticipated follow-up to his memorable breakout film Barbarian. This one is a missing person thriller heavily inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, with its intersecting storylines. Warner Bros. has just released the first trailer for the… Read More First Trailer for Zach Cregger’s Weapons
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto In their documentary Marriage Cops, co-directors Shashwati Talukdar and Cheryl Hess take us inside a police station in northern India, where a team of female officers provide marriage counselling to couples experiencing marital problems. It’s a way… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: Marriage Cops
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto Shot on luminous 16mm film, Agatha’s Almanac is a portrait of Agatha Bock, a subject who, in her mid-eighties, is proudly carrying on the traditions of rural farm living in southern Manitoba. The film is directed by… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: Agatha’s Almanac
By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto Ai Weiwei’s Turandot looks at the Chinese artist and activist’s modern re-staging of Puccini’s opera at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. The film opens with the quote “everything is art, everything is politics,” before dramatic footage from… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: Ai Weiwei’s Turandot
By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 25th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: The Accountant 2 (Wide Release): This long-awaited sequel to the 2016 action thriller finds director Gavin O’Connor returning, and Ben Affleck reprising his role as autistic accountant Christian Wolff. Jon Bernthal is also back as the brother. I was a pretty… Read More New This Week (04/25/2025): The Accountant 2, The Legend of Ochi, & More!
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