By John Corrado New releases for the week of December 19th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Avatar: Fire and Ash (Wide Release): The biggest of this week’s new releases is obviously Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in James Cameron’s blockbuster sci-fi saga set on Pandora. This one is a continuation of 2022’s The Way of… Read More New This Week (12/19/2025): Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Housemaid, & More!
By John Corrado Director Paul Feig is probably best known for his comedy work like Bridesmaids, but dipped his toes into the thriller genre with his darkly comic 2018 mystery film A Simple Favor and its sequel Another Simple Favor, released earlier this year. It’s this energy that Feig now brings to The Housemaid, his… Read More Movie Review: The Housemaid
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just revealed the title and released the first teaser for Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest film. It’s called Digger, and stars Tom Cruise in the leading role of a man named Digger Rockwell. Everything about this one has been kept very secretive throughout the production, when it was… Read More First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, starring Tom Cruise!
By John Corrado We finally have a trailer (and an official title!) for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film. It’s called Disclosure Day, and is the director’s long-awaited return to the sci-fi genre. The details of it have been kept tantalizingly under wraps so far. This is said to be him going back to his roots of… Read More First Teaser for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day!
By John Corrado James Cameron returns to the world of Avatar in Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in his sci-fi saga that began all the way back in 2009. And this latest instalment essentially delivers more of what fans of the first two want, with Cameron giving us another immersive, visually dazzling trip… Read More Movie Review: Avatar: Fire and Ash
By John Corrado New releases for the week of December 12th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Ella McCay (Wide Release): Iconic writer-director James L. Brooks returns with his first movie in fifteen years. Emma Mackey stars as the titular character, a young woman thrust into the role of governor while dealing with family drama. Jamie Lee Curtis,… Read More New This Week (12/12/2025): Ella McCay, Dust Bunny, & More!
By John Corrado A young girl has to confront the monster under her bed in Dust Bunny, the imaginative feature directorial debut of TV writer and producer Bryan Fuller, who is best known for series like Star Trek: Discovery, Pushing Daisies, and fan favourite Hannibal. Despite reuniting him with his Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen, Fuller… Read More Movie Review: Dust Bunny
By John Corrado Aside from his role as co-creator and producer of The Simpsons, which is certainly enough of a legacy on its own, James L. Brooks is also best known for writing and directing a trio of beloved, all-timer romantic dramedies with Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good As It Gets. Brooks… Read More Movie Review: Ella McCay
By John Corrado New releases for the week of December 5th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: The Secret Agent (Limited Release): This Brazilian political thriller has been gaining steam since it premiered at Cannes, and is now shaping up to be an awards season contender. Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, the film is set in the 1970s,… Read More New This Week (12/05/2025): The Secret Agent, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, & More!
By John Corrado In her new documentary The Tale of Silyan, the follow-up to her Oscar-nominated Honeyland, director Tamara Kotevska once again explores the balance between people and nature in North Macedonia. In Honeyland, Kotevska focused on an elderly beekeeper having her traditional way of life – and her livelihood – threatened by a new family… Read More Movie Review: The Tale of Silyan
By John Corrado In his acceptance speech at the SAG Awards earlier year, when he won the Best Actor trophy for his uncanny portrayal of Bob Dylan in music biopic A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet unabashedly spoke about wanting to be one of the greats. The young actor took some heat for it online. Surely… Read More Movie Review: Marty Supreme
By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 26th and 28th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Zootopia 2 (Wide Release): The big new release this week is the long-awaited sequel to Disney’s 2016 animated film, which sees the return of bunny Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), now rookie cops going… Read More New This Week (11/28/2025): Zootopia 2, Hamnet, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, & More!
By John Corrado When Zootopia came out in 2016, it took a lot of people by surprise (myself included) with how sharp and relevant it was. Set in an anthropomorphic world of talking animals designed like a bustling metropolis, the Disney film delivered a timely message about stereotypes and discrimination between “predators” and “prey,” told… Read More Movie Review: Zootopia 2
By John Corrado The Conjuring: Last Rites is the fourth and supposedly final film in The Conjuring series that began in 2013, and the ninth (or tenth) film in the horror franchise if you count the various spinoffs we have gotten over the years. The series peaked with the first film and its 2016 sequel,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Conjuring: Last Rites
By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 21st, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Wicked: For Good (Wide Release): The most anticipated of this week’s new releases is Act Two of director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical. I really liked this one. It delivers a darker and emotionally resonant grand finale to… Read More New This Week (11/21/2025): Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, & More!
By John Corrado Named for the most well known song from the second half of the Broadway musical, Wicked: For Good is the grand finale of director Jon M. Chu’s two-part film adaptation, and it delivers on the dramatic promise of the story. If it’s maybe not quite as good as the first movie, which… Read More Movie Review: Wicked: For Good
By John Corrado Disney has just released the new trailer (and poster) for Hoppers, Pixar’s next original movie opening next year. This one follows a girl who has her consciousness put into a robotic beaver, to infiltrate the animal kingdom. The full cast list has also been unveiled, including Meryl Streep, making her Pixar debut!… Read More New Trailer for Pixar’s Hoppers!
By John Corrado The first teaser trailer has just been released for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. This is the sixth instalment in the franchise, and the second prequel following 2013’s The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. This one is set in Panem over two decades before the first one, and focuses on… Read More First Teaser Trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
By John Corrado Him, the new football-themed horror movie from producer Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, is a prime example of a film that has some theoretically interesting ideas, but ultimately fails because they are so poorly executed. The film follows a young football player named Cameron “Cam” Cade (Tyriq Withers), who is given the opportunity… Read More Blu-ray Review: Him (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Disney has just put out the first teaser trailer (and poster) for their upcoming live action remake of Moana. The studio continuing with the live action updates isn’t shocking, especially after the massive success of Lilo & Stitch earlier this year. But this one is arriving barely a decade after the animated… Read More First Teaser for Disney’s Live-Action Moana
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