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
By John Corrado The Radio Silence team of co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett return to the world of their 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, a fun sequel that serves as a direct continuation of the first one. As in, this film literally opens right where the… Read More Movie Review: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
By John Corrado Sony Pictures has just released the first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. This is the sequel to 2021’s smash hit Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the fourth solo outing for Tom Holland’s webslinger. I’m looking forward to it. This one is set four years after No Way Home, and the trailer… Read More First Trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the first trailer for Dune: Part Three. This is Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated finale to his sci-fi trilogy, modelled after author Frank Herbert’s much darker second book, Dune: Messiah. This trailer comes in the wake of star Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar campaign for Marty Supreme, which, ultimately, sadly,… Read More First Trailer for Dune: Part Three!
By John Corrado The 98th Academy Awards have now wrapped up, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another triumphing in Best Picture. This looked like it was shaping up to be a much tighter race between PTA’s film and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners in recent weeks, but season sweeper One Battle prevailed in the end.… Read More Winners of the 98th Academy Awards
By John Corrado The Oscars are tomorrow night, which means that this very long awards season has finally come to an end. It’s a season that hasn’t been without some dumb controversies, including ones that cropped up right at the end of voting (such as Best Actor frontrunner Timothée Chalamet’s comments on opera and ballet that,… Read More My 2026 Oscar Predictions
By John Corrado New releases for the week of March 13th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Undertone (Wide Release): This horror movie debut from Toronto-based filmmaker Ian Tuason became a Canadian success story when A24 picked it up at last year’s Fantasia in Montreal. It’s a creepy, slow-burn horror film that stars Nina Kiri as a paranormal… Read More New This Week (03/13/2026): Undertone, Space Cadet, & More!
By John Corrado The bond between a girl and her robot is explored in Space Cadet, a wonderful little Canadian animated film that serves as the directorial debut of DJ and musician Kid Koala. The film charts the parental bond between young space enthusiast Celeste, and the robot – a first generation “Guardianbot” – who… Read More Movie Review: Space Cadet
By John Corrado Universal has just released a brand new “official trailer” for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. This is the iconic filmmaker’s return to sci-fi and, more specifically, aliens. This trailer gives us a bit more of the plot, which involves the disclosure of United States military secrets confirming the existence of extra terrestrial life.… Read More Official Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day
By John Corrado Undertone, the creepy, slow-burn directorial debut of Toronto-based filmmaker Ian Tuason, is the latest horror movie being put out by indie powerhouse A24. And it’s the epitome of a Canadian success story, with the distributor picking up the rights for seven figures in a competitive bidding war after Tuason’s film premiered at… Read More Movie Review: Undertone
By John Corrado New releases for the week of March 6th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Hoppers (Wide Release): This latest film from Pixar follows Mabel (Piper Curda), a young animal lover who “hops” her consciousness into a robotic beaver to infiltrate the Animal Kingdom, and stop the development plans of Mayor Jerry (Jon Hamm). I’m already… Read More New This Week (03/06/2026): Hoppers, The Bride!, Protector, & More!
By John Corrado Milla Jovovich, the star of the Resident Evil franchise, is now being given her own Liam Neeson in Taken or Sylvester Stallone in Rambo moment in Protector. That latter comparison makes some sense since this film comes to us from director Adrian Grünberg, who previously made the 2019 legacy sequel Rambo: Last… Read More Movie Review: Protector
By John Corrado The winners of the 2026 Dorian Film Awards, presented by the group GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, have been announced. Leading the pack is Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which took home a record seven awards, including Film of the Year and Director of the Year. In a statement, GALECA Executive Director… Read More Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Wins Big at the 2026 Dorian Film Awards
By John Corrado Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet is one of the big Oscar contenders this year, and the film is now available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. I praised this one when I saw it at TIFF (you can read my full review right here), and named it one of the best movies of… Read More 4k Ultra HD Review: Hamnet (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Pixar already took us inside the mind of an adolescent girl in both Inside Out movies, and now the studio’s latest film, Hoppers, follows a teenaged girl who puts her mind inside a robotic beaver. The result is an incredibly fun animated film that is totally zany and often very funny (including… Read More Movie Review: Hoppers
By John Corrado New releases for the week of February 27th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Scream 7 (Wide Release): The biggest new release this week is this seventh instalment in the meta slasher movie franchise, which arrives thirty years after the first one and brings back original star Neve Campbell in the leading role as Sydney… Read More New This Week (02/27/2026): Scream 7, In Cold Light, The President’s Cake, & More!
By John Corrado A young girl is selected to bake a cake for her school in honour of President Saddam Hussein’s birthday in Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi’s debut feature The President’s Cake, which serves as a charming neorealist throwback. Hadi’s film is set in Iraq in the early 1990s, where, despite mass starvation caused by… Read More Movie Review: The President’s Cake
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