By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Fabio Zaffagnini wanted to attract the attention of the Foo Fighters in hopes that the band would play a show in his hometown of… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: We Are the Thousand
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The main draw of The Little Things, an alright if somewhat dated psychological thriller set in the 1990s that offers a mix of rote police procedural and lurid serial killer movie, is the chance to see three Oscar-winning actors going toe-to-toe with each other. The film’s cast is… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Little Things
By John Corrado This is a review of the Blu-ray release. For my full thoughts on the film itself, including my star rating, please read my original review right here. After previously being released both in theatres and on Premium Video On Demand, the Oscar-winning drama Judas and the Black Messiah is being given a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Judas and the Black Messiah
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Adam Neumann, the founder and former CEO of WeWork, essentially got rich off of selling office space to millennials. But it was more the… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada The title subject of the documentary Misha and the Wolves is Misha Defonseca, a Belgian Holocaust survivor who settled in Massachusetts, where her incredible… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Misha and the Wolves
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada In her short documentary Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again, filmmaker Courtney Montour explores the legacy of Indigenous women’s rights activist Mary Two-Axe… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Director Sheona McDonald’s short documentary Into Light explores the experience of a single mother in Yellowknife, as she helps her young transgender daughter through… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Into Light
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams follow a group of people from Vancouver’s LGBTQ+ community who are working together to sponsor a gay… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Someone Like Me
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Set in the world of competitive tablescaping, Set! is one of those quirky, special interest documentaries that does a good job of introducing us… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Set!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada In the opening scene of The Face of Anonymous, novelist Ian Thornton recounts how he met a panhandler in Toronto some years back. He… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: The Face of Anonymous
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada The “ISIS brides” as they are called, the Western woman who travelled overseas from Europe and North America to join the terrorist group in… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: The Return: Life After ISIS
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Based on the book by Michael Davis, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is a heartwarming documentary that explores the history of… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada June and Jean Millington are sisters who moved to California from the Philippines in the early 1960s, and formed a band as teenagers, with… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Fanny: The Right to Rock
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada In the 1960s, brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward fulfilled their dream of becoming music producers when they turned their family farm in Wales into… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Directed by Margaret Byrne, a filmmaker who herself is living with mental illness, Any Given Day is a candid portrait of people struggling to… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Any Given Day
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Shawn Bath, the main subject of the engaging and appropriately titled documentary Hell or Clean Water, is a commercial diver in Newfoundland who has… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Hell or Clean Water
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Documentary filmmaker Jesse McCracken returns to his hometown of Markdale, Ontario in Grey Roads, to explore how the town has changed since he grew… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: Grey Roads
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Hot Docs Festival is running virtually from April 29th to May 9th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Canada Director Ann Shin explores the concept of “digital immortality” in A.rtifical I.mmortality, the opening night film of this year’s virtual Hot Docs, a thought-provoking… Read More #HotDocs21 Review: A.rtificial I.mmortality
By John Corrado The 93rd Academy Awards have officially come to a close, with Nomadland triumphing for Best Picture. Chloe Zhao also won Best Director for the film, becoming only the second female filmmaker to win the award. Rounding out a trio of much deserved wins for Nomadland was Frances McDormand, who triumphed in the… Read More Winners of the 93rd Academy Awards
By John Corrado This is it, folks. After the longest awards season ever, the 2021 Oscars are happening tonight. I’ve spent the last week catching up with movies, and have seen 40 out of the 41 nominated features, as well as a couple of the shorts. Here are my predictions for what will win in… Read More My 2021 Oscar Predictions
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