By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 17th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Lorne (Limited Release): This latest celebrity documentary from filmmaker Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 20 Feet from Stardom) is a portrait of Lorne Michaels, the elusive creator of Saturday Night Live. I really enjoyed this one. It works as… Read More New This Week (04/17/2026): Lorne, Mile End Kicks, & More!
By John Corrado In Mile End Kicks, the very enjoyable sophomore feature from former Toronto film critic Chandler Levack following her excellent directorial debut I Like Movies, we follow a young music critic trying to figure things out in her early twenties. In many ways, Mike End Kicks plays like a companion piece to I… Read More Movie Review: Mile End Kicks
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just released our first trailer (and poster) for The Dog Stars, the latest film from director Ridley Scott (following his sequel Gladiator II). This one is adapted from a book by Peter Heller, and is a post-apocalyptic survival story starring Jacob Elordi, Guy Pearce, Margaret Qualley and Allison… Read More First Trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars
By John Corrado Disney has just released the final trailer (and poster) for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, following their CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. This feature-length theatrical spinoff from the Disney+ streaming series finds star Pedro Pascal reprising his role, and seems to be sold on the enduring appeal of Grogu – “Baby… Read More Final Trailer for Disney’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
By John Corrado Universal Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Focker-in-Law, which was first unveiled tonight at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. This is the sequel to popular comedies Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, and it’s written and directed by John Hamburg, who co-wrote the previous three. This fourth… Read More First Trailer for Focker-in-Law
By John Corrado As a documentary filmmaker, Morgan Neville has focused on a variety of celebrity subjects, from Mister Rogers in Won’t You Be My Neighbor? to Anthony Bourdain in Roadrunner. And, in his Oscar-winning 20 Feet from Stardom, he brought backup singers into the spotlight. The subject of Neville’s latest film is another behind the… Read More Movie Review: Lorne
By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 10th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Exit 8 (Limited Releases): This Japanese video game adaptation follows a man (Kazunari Ninomiya) who ends up trapped in an endless loop in a subway tunnel following his daily commute. I reviewed this one during TIFF last year, and found it… Read More New This Week (04/10/2026): Exit 8, Hamlet, & More!
By John Corrado Two decades after Malcolm in the Middle ended its seven season run in 2006, the sitcom about a family of boys – named for the genius middle child, Malcolm – gets a four-episode revival in the form of Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair. This limited streaming mini-series brings back (nearly)… Read More TV Review: Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair (Disney+)
By John Corrado Ryan Gosling received his first Oscar nomination two decades ago for playing a school teacher in the indie drama Half Nelson. Now, Gosling is playing a teacher once again in the sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary, which finds the Canadian actor delivering one of his very best performances. Adapted from the novel… Read More Movie Review: Project Hail Mary
By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 3rd, 2026. Theatrical Releases: The Drama (Wide Release): Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star as a couple about to be married in this buzzy new dark comedy from A24 and Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario, Sick of Myself). Pattinson is very good as a groom… Read More New This Week (04/03/2026): The Drama, Fantasy Life, & More!
By John Corrado The indie dramedy Fantasy Life serves as the impressive feature directorial debut of actor Matthew Shear, doing quadruple duty as writer, director, executive producer, and star. Shear stars in the film as Sam, an anxious young Jewish man in New York City who, in no short order, gets laid off from his… Read More Movie Review: Fantasy Life
By John Corrado The Drama, the latest film from Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, starts off feeling like a typical indie rom-com, complete with a coffee shop “meet-cute” between our protagonists Charlie Thompson (Robert Pattinson) and Emma Harwood (Zendaya). But there’s something off about it. And if you’ve seen Borgli’s previous films Dream Scenario and Sick… Read More Movie Review: The Drama
By John Corrado New releases for the week of March 27th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Alpha (Limited Release): Julia Ducournau’s third film following her debut Raw and Palme d’Or winner Titane, is a metaphorical AIDS drama set in the 1980s. It follows a 13-year-old girl named Alpha (played by Mélissa Boros). Tahar Rahim is also a… Read More New This Week (03/27/2026): Alpha, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, & More!
By John Corrado In his previous documentary, the Oscar-winning 2022 film Navalny, Toronto filmmaker Daniel Roher presented a thrilling portrait of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Now Roher turns his attention to the equally timely topic of artificial intelligence in The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Roher’s latest, which he… Read More Movie Review: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
By John Corrado Alpha is the third feature from French filmmaker Julia Ducournau, whose previous films Raw and Titane both shocked and repulsed audiences while drawing critical acclaim. For Ducournau to follow up a film as thrilling and visionary as her sophomore feature Titane was always going to be a nearly impossible task, especially after… Read More Movie Review: Alpha
By John Corrado Elements of time travel and crime thriller collide in Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, an enjoyable action comedy that unfolds with a sort of clever-dumb logic that requires us to just roll with it. The plot, which unfolds across one night, is filled with twists and double-crossings. The titular players… Read More Movie Review: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (Disney+)
By John Corrado The 20th anniversary edition of the Canadian Film Fest begins tonight and runs until March 29th at the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto. I’ve had the privilege of covering this festival a number of times in the past, and I’m always impressed by the range of homegrown films on display. This year’s milestone… Read More The 2026 Canadian Film Fest runs from March 24th to 29th in Toronto
By John Corrado New releases for the week of March 20th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (Wide Release): This fun sequel to the 2019 horror-comedy begins right where that film ended, with new bride Grace (Samara Weaving) having survived being hunted by her in-laws and now thrust into another deadly… Read More New This Week (03/20/2026): Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, Project Hail Mary, & More!
By John Corrado A homeless woman takes a Seattle tow truck company to court when the 1991 Toyota Camry she’s been living out of gets towed in director Stephanie Laing’s Tow, a based-on-a-true-story dramedy produced by and starring Rose Byrne. Byrne stars in the film as Amanda Ogle, a recovering alcoholic drifting around Seattle struggling… Read More Movie Review: Tow
By John Corrado Searchlight Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Wild Horse Nine, the latest film from writer-director Martin McDonagh. McDonagh’s last two films, The Banshees of Inisherin and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, were major Oscar contenders. It looks like a blast. This one finds McDonagh re-teaming with his Oscar-winning Three… Read More First Trailer for Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine
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