By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 30th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Send Help (Wide Release): Sam Raimi goes back to his roots with this enjoyable mix of gnarly survival thriller, horror movie, and exploration of shifting power dynamics. It’s essentially a two-handed between Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien, who star as a… Read More New This Week (01/30/2026): Send Help, Arco, & More!
By John Corrado The title of writer-director Hailey Gates’ pretty good Iraq War satire Atropia refers to the name of an elaborate, fully functional set located in the California desert that serves as a training ground for the United States military. It’s the name of a fictional country, because the government can’t legally name the… Read More Movie Review: Atropia
By John Corrado The Oscar-nominated French animated film Arco, which serves as the feature directorial debut of artist Ugo Bienvenu, imagines a future world where time travel is not only possible, but involves colourful jumpsuits that use rainbows and refracted light. The film opens in the distant future, with a boy named Arco (voiced by… Read More Movie Review: Arco
By John Corrado What would you do if you found yourself stranded on a desert island with your asshole boss? Now imagine that boss, who has constantly belittled you as an employee, has no survival skills, and now you hold all the power? That’s the basic premise behind Send Help, the new film from director… Read More Movie Review: Send Help
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 23rd, 2026. Theatrical Releases: A Private Life (Limited Release): Jodie Foster stars in this French-language psychological thriller from director Rebecca Zlotowski, playing an American psychiatrist in Paris who believes the death of her longtime patient might be murder. I enjoyed this one. It’s unexpectedly playful… Read More New This Week (01/23/2026): A Private Life, H is for Hawk, & More!
By John Corrado H is for Hawk is based on 2014 memoir of the same name by British author and naturalist Helen Macdonald, which told the story of her grief-fuelled friendship with a wild goshawk. Claire Foy stars in the film adaptation as Helen, who we first meet as a shy academic at Cambridge. When… Read More Movie Review: H is for Hawk
By John Corrado The first thing we hear in filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski’s new French-language thriller A Private Life (or Vie privée) is the distinctive strains of The Talking Heads song “Psycho Killer.” The song is leaking into the office of psychiatrist Lillian Steiner (Jodie Foster), as it’s being blasted by her neighbours in the apartment… Read More Movie Review: A Private Life
By John Corrado The 98th Academy Award nominations have just been announced. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is way out front, leading the pack with a record-breaking sixteen nominations. For context, the previous record for a single film was fourteen, held by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land. It’s followed closely by Paul Thomas Anderson’s… Read More Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards
By John Corrado Following a successful run in theatres, Paul Thomas Anderson’s awards favourite One Battle After Another is now available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. I already gave high praise to this one when I saw it in theatres (you can read my full review right here), and also included it on… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: One Battle After Another
By John Corrado Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, the second act of the director’s two-part adaptation of the Broadway musical, is now available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. I was a fan of this one when I saw it in theatres (you can read my full review right here). Even if it… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Wicked: For Good
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 16th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Dead Man’s Wire (Limited Release): Gus Van Sant’s based-on-true-events crime drama tells the story of the tense standoff that unfolded when Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) took a mortgage broker (Dacre Montgomery) hostage in 1977 with a shotgun strapped to his neck,… Read More New This Week (01/16/2026): Dead Man’s Wire, Charlie the Wonderdog, All You Need is Kill, & More!
By John Corrado The main appeal of Charlie the Wonderdog, the first animated feature from British Colombia’s ICON Creative Studio, is getting to hear Owen Wilson voice an aging dog who gets a new lease on life. Wilson brings his usual laid-back charm to his portrayal of the titular “wonderdog,” so it’s no wonder (pun… Read More Movie Review: Charlie the Wonderdog
By John Corrado All You Need is Kill is an anime adaptation of Japanese author Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s graphic novel of the same name, which already provided the basis for Doug Liman’s 2014 time loop action film Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Where as Sakurazaka’s book and Liman’s film (also referred to… Read More Movie Review: All You Need is Kill
By John Corrado The official trailer has just been released for Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson’s wildly entertaining time travel comedy. This one premiered at SXSW last year, and also got a hometown welcome as the opening night film of TIFF’s Midnight Madness section, where it very easily won… Read More Official Trailer for Matt Johnson’s Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie!
By John Corrado The nominations for the 2026 Dorian Film Awards, presented by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (of which I am a member), have just been announced. Paul Thomas Anderson’s seemingly unstoppable award season juggernaut One Battle After Another is leading the pack with nine nominations, followed closely by Ryan Coogler’s Sinners… Read More One Battle After Another and Sinners Lead the 2026 Dorian Film Awards Nominations
By John Corrado The Choral is a British period drama set during World War I. But instead of taking us to the Western Front, the story stays focused on the best efforts of a choir in a small English town that is desperate to deliver a distraction from the ongoing war. It’s an approach that… Read More Movie Review: The Choral
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 9th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Father Mother Sister Brother (Limited Release): Jim Jarmusch’s latest film, which won the Golden Lion at Venice, is a triptych following three sets of family members across three separate chapters. The ensemble cast includes some lovely work from Adam Driver, Mayim… Read More New This Week (01/09/2026): Father Mother Sister Brother, The Choral, & More!
By John Corrado In Rosemead, the well-crafted but disturbing feature directorial debut of cinematographer Eric Lin, Lucy Liu stars as a widowed Chinese-American mother in Southern California who is struggling to support her mentally ill teenaged son. Liu’s Irene is terminally ill from cancer, the same disease that took her husband. Meanwhile, she is struggling… Read More Movie Review: Rosemead
By John Corrado In his latest film, the triptych anthology movie Father Mother Sister Brother which was awarded the Golden Lion at Venice, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch offers another collection of observations on human nature and interaction. The film itself unfolds in three separate chapters that aren’t connected, per se, but all share narrative beats and… Read More Movie Review: Father Mother Sister Brother
By John Corrado In We Bury the Dead, Australian writer-director Zak Hilditch offers his own take on the zombie movie and survival thriller. The film opens with news reports of a magnetic pulse weapon accidentally being deployed by the United States military during testing, killing half-a-million people in Tasmania. Daisy Ridley, continuing her post Disney… Read More Movie Review: We Bury the Dead
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