By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Knock at the Cabin. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Knock at the Cabin, is being released on Blu-ray this week. Based on the novel… Read More Blu-ray Review: Knock at the Cabin (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of 80 for Brady. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. After a run in theatres this February, where it drew in crowds of seniors, the feel-good football comedy 80 for Brady… Read More Blu-ray Review: 80 for Brady
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In her fast-paced and engaging documentary Hong Kong Mixtape, director San San F Young offers a vibrant look at the young artists in… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Hong Kong Mixtape
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The documentary Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law? offers a solid introduction to pro-democracy activist Nathan Law, as it provides an engaging overview of… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In their documentary When Spring Came to Bucha, directors Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz take us into the Ukrainian town of Bucha in the… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: When Spring Came to Bucha
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Directed by Mystlav Chernov, one of three Associated Press journalists who went to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol as soon as Russian… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: 20 Days in Mariupol
By John Corrado This year’s 30th anniversary edition of Hot Docs has officially come to a close, with the festival’s Top 20 Audience Award finalists announced today. The first place winner of the Hot Docs Audience Award is Quebec filmmaker Philippe Falardeau’s Lac-Mégantic – This Is Not an Accident. The top ranking mid-length film was… Read More #HotDocs23 Audience Award Winners
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The Lebanese Burger Mafia is an enjoyable look at the history of Burger Baron, an Alberta fast food franchise that is not really… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: The Lebanese Burger Mafia
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In director Juha Suonpää’s documentary Lynx Man, we are introduced to a unique subject; Hannu, an older Finnish man who has appointed himself… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Lynx Man
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Against the Tide, which won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance, is a compelling slice-of-life documentary from… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Against the Tide
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In his documentary I Lost My Mom, Quebec filmmaker Denys Desjardins captures the end of his mother Madeleine’s life, offering a devastating portrait… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: I Lost My Mom
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 5th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Wide Release): The only really big new release this week is the final entry in writer-director James Gunn’s space adventure trilogy. I saw it earlier this week, and liked it a lot. If it’s a… Read More New This Week (05/05/2023): Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 & More!
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Writer-director James Gunn completes his gonzo space adventure trilogy with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, a fitting end to the saga that plays with the same colourful mix of action, humour, and heart that made the first two movies such standouts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And… Read More Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Ella Glendining’s Is There Anybody Out There? is a remarkable documentary about disability and ableism, starting as the filmmaker’s own personal journey of… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Is There Anybody Out There?
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Logan Red Crow is a young Blackfoot woman from Siksika First Nation in Alberta, who grew up helping with the horses on her… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Founded in 2004, the Dalkurd Football Club is a soccer team made up of Kurdish refugees living in Sweden, who are partially playing… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Directed by Megan Wennberg (Drag Kids), the documentary Unsyncable follows a group of seniors, ranging from their sixties to their eighties, who have… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Unsyncable
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In their cleverly crafted documentary Another Body, young filmmakers Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn tell the story of Taylor Klein, a young female… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Another Body
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Directed by Davis Guggenheim (the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth), STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie is an entertaining and emotional biography of the… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In Praying for Armageddon, Norwegian director Tonje Hessen Schei (Drone, iHuman) explores the subset of American Christian fundamentalists who believe that the apocalypse… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Praying for Armageddon
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