By John Corrado A few weeks ago, I shared the teaser trailer for The Man with the Bag, an upcoming Christmas comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Santa Claus. Now we have a longer “official” trailer for the film. This looks like it has the potential to be a fun Christmas action comedy, and I’m admittedly… Read More Official Trailer for The Man with the Bag
By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 30th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Limited Release): John Turturro gets a wonderful starring role as an aging petty thief in this enjoyable crime drama from writer-director Noah Segan. It works as both a surprisingly poignant portrait of Turturro’s Harry… Read More New This Week (10/30/2026): The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Everest: The Other Side, Fatherland, & More!
By John Corrado Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is the third film in a trilogy of sorts following 2013’s Ida and 2018’s exceptional Cold War, offering a triptych of portraits exploring post-WWII Europe. This film is set in 1949, and follows the writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) on a… Read More Movie Review: Fatherland
By John Corrado Harry Lehman (John Turturro) is the sort of older gentleman who always dresses nicely and takes pride in his profession, which just so happens to be that of a pickpocket. Turturro’s Harry is the protagonist of writer-director Noah Segan’s very enjoyable The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, with the film’s title,… Read More Movie Review: The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 23rd, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Wildwood (Wide Release): This latest stop-motion film from LAIKA is an ambitious fantasy epic that follows a teen girl (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) in Oregon, who ventures into the enchanted woods around her home to rescue her baby brother after he is… Read More New This Week (10/23/2026): Wildwood, Wicker, La Bola Negra, Possible Love, A Talent for Murder, & More!
By John Corrado Based on the short story The Wicker Husband by author Ursula Wills-Jones, Wicker is a clever and enjoyable medieval romp starring Olivia Colman as the unnamed Fisherwoman, a spinster who gets herself a husband made of wicker. The film’s co-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, who also co-wrote the screenplay, fully… Read More Movie Review: Wicker
By John Corrado This is something fun I wanted to share. Amazon MGM Studios has just released a new trailer for I Play Rocky, ahead of the film’s release in theatres next month. At just a minute-and-a-half, this trailer gives you a good taste of what to expect from the hugely entertaining film. Peter Farrelly… Read More New Trailer for Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky!
By John Corrado Since their debut film Coraline in 2009, the Oregon-based animation studio LAIKA has not only been keeping stop-motion alive as an art form, but also pushing it forward in exciting ways. Across their subsequent films (ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link), LAIKA has been pioneering new techniques, building… Read More Movie Review: Wildwood
By John Corrado Director Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder is a very enjoyable portrait of The Talented Mr. Ripley author Patricia Highsmith, that works around the clever concept of being both a literary biopic and an imagined version of a sixth story featuring her most famous creation, Tom Ripley. Set in 1995, the film… Read More Movie Review: A Talent for Murder
By John Corrado One Night Only is the latest romantic comedy directed by Will Gluck (Friends With Benefits, Easy A), following up his surprise 2023 hit Anyone But You. That film, which was built around the chemistry between stars Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, fully embraced the conventions of a traditional rom-com to charming effect.… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: One Night Only (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 16th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: You Can See Everything (Limited Release): This three hour documentary from co-directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Theranos founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has become the talk of the town. Fielder embeds himself with Holmes and her husband Billy… Read More New This Week (10/16/2026): You Can See Everything, Whalefall, Fjord, & More!
By John Corrado In the hands of Nathan Fielder and co-director Lance Oppenheim, a nearly three-hour documentary about Theranos founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes becomes one of the most compelling films of the year. This is You Can See Everything, a highly adventurous gambit from A24 that finds Fielder embedding himself in the home… Read More Movie Review: You Can See Everything
By John Corrado Sometimes a basic premise is all you need to sell a movie. Such is the case with Whalefall, which follows a young diver who gets swallowed by a whale, and has to survive inside of the creature as his oxygen runs out. But it’s what director Brian Duffield (No One Will Save… Read More Movie Review: Whalefall
By John Corrado We now have our first trailer for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. This is Greta Gerwig’s take on the classic C. S. Lewis series, with the Lady Bird, Little Women and Barbie filmmaker putting her own spin on it. The rock music influences that Gerwig has hinted at are certainly felt in this trailer,… Read More First Trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
By John Corrado Before David Fincher’s The Social Network was released in 2010, there was a lot of talk about whether or not we actually needed a movie about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. It turned out to not only be one of the most prescient films of that decade, but one of the… Read More Movie Review: The Social Reckoning
By John Corrado Apple Original Films has just put out the official trailer for Being Heumann, director Siân Heder’s follow-up to her surprise Best Picture winner CODA. I saw this one when it premiered as the opening night film at TIFF last month (you can read my full review right here), and enjoyed it quite… Read More Official Trailer for Siân Heder’s Being Heumann
By John Corrado We now have the first trailer (and poster) for director Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs, which is also playing in theatres in front of Other Mommy this weekend. This is the latest attempt to reboot this iconic horror franchise, after David Gordon Green’s 2023 legacy sequel Exorcist: Believer fell flat, and the… Read More First Trailer for Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs
By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 9th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Run Terry Run (Wide Release): Director Sean Menard’s very moving new documentary was one of the absolute best films I saw at TIFF this year. Assembled from 96 reels of never before seen footage from Terry Fox’s 1980 Marathon of Hope,… Read More New This Week (10/09/2026): Run Terry Run, The Social Reckoning, & More!
By John Corrado In his entertaining directorial debut California Schemin’, actor James McAvoy takes on the wild story of early-2000s rap duo Silibil N’ Brains, whose flash in the pan success was built on a lie. Silibil and Brains were the stage names of Billy Boyd (Samuel Bottomley) and Gavin Bain (Séamus McLean Ross), two… Read More Movie Review: California Schemin’
By John Corrado Digger, the latest film from Birdman and The Revenant filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, stars Tom Cruise in the titular role of Digger Rockwell, an aging Texas oil tycoon. Cruise, appearing in old man makeup, has been the main selling point of Iñárritu’s film. Returning to non-action roles, Digger gives the actor the… Read More Movie Review: Digger