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By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) With this year’s in-person edition of Hot Docs cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a selection of festival films are being given broadcast premieres every Thursday night from April 16th to May 28th on CBC, documentary Channel, and the CBC Gem streaming app, as part of the Hot […]… Continue reading Hot Docs At Home Review: The Walrus and the Whistleblower — One Movie, Our Views

By John Corrado While the in-person edition of Hot Docs was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, roughly 140 films that were set to screen at the festival will be streamed online instead from May 28th to June 6th, with some being available for even longer. Tickets are $9 apiece, $8 for members, with select […]… Continue reading Hot Docs Festival Online Reviews — One Movie, Our Views

By John Corrado Three years after delivering his iconic, Oscar-nominated performance as a young, working class Italian-American guy drifting through New York’s nightlife in Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta traded the white suit for a Stetson hat in Urban Cowboy, and went from disco dancing to doing the Texas two-step. Based on Aaron Latham’s 1978 […]… Continue reading Blu-ray Review: Urban Cowboy: 40th Anniversary Edition — One Movie, Our Views

By John Corrado While the in-person edition of Hot Docs was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, roughly 140 films that were set to screen at the festival were selected to stream online during a digital festival from May 28th to June 6th, with many titles being available for even longer until June 24th. Tickets […]… Continue reading Hot Docs Festival Online Reviews (Part 2) — One Movie, Our Views

By John Corrado While the in-person edition of Hot Docs was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, roughly 140 films that were set to screen at the festival were selected to stream online during a digital festival from May 28th to June 6th, with many titles being available for even longer until June 24th. Tickets […]… Continue reading Hot Docs Festival Online Reviews (Part 3) — One Movie, Our Views

By John Corrado This year’s special online edition of Hot Docs officially came to a close last night, and tonight the winners of the festival’s coveted Audience Award were announced during a live stream, which you can revisit on YouTube. The first place finisher was The Walrus and the Whistleblower, director Nathalie Bibeau’s film about […]… Continue reading Hot Docs Festival Online Audience Award Winners — One Movie, Our Views

Often glorious finds come my way because others have shared what they are reading, watching, or engaging with. So, this post is all about sharing things I have found. Firstly, I want to share a video from KarenBritChick. Her YouTube channel is about fashion and she does this amazing series called What everyone is wearing […]… Continue reading The Sweetness of Sharing — Kick: Creative Action

More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. via “The World Cannot Breathe!” Squashed by the U.S. – A Country Built on Genocide and Slavery — The New Dark Age

We are possibly witnessing the most destructive scientific fraud in the history of man via the COVID-19 pandemic while shutting down the U.S. economy. Hysteria is destroying people’s lives. This level of “groupthink has drove [sic] unnecessary global shutdowns.” When the majority of U.S. deaths those of and countries like Italy occur in nursing homes… Continue reading COVID and Climate Models Will Not Save Us — Randy Salars News And Comment

CLOSE Documentary filmmaker Keith Beauchamp talks about lies in the Look article. CHICAGO – As thousands of protests against the deaths of black men, women and children have broken out across the country in recent weeks, many black demonstrators and faith leaders have invoked the name of Emmett Till to suggest the nation could be… Continue reading Emmett Till’s lynching ignited a civil rights movement. Historians say George Floyd’s death could do the same —