By John Corrado Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, the actress-turned-filmmaker’s followup to her Oscar-nominated directorial debut The Lost Daughter, is an ambitious genre mashup of horror movie, detective picture, musical, and feminist revisionism. Setting her film in the 1930s, Gyllenhaal uses Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a blueprint for an entirely new reimagining of the story, crafting… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Bride!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 8th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Obsession (Wide Release): This horror film from writer-director Curry Barker got picked up by Focus Features after it screened in TIFF’s Midnight Madness section last year, and feels like it’s on the verge of becoming a breakout hit. It follows a… Read More New This Week (05/15/2026): Obsession, The Wizard of the Kremlin, & More!
By John Corrado The title of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest film from French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, refers to Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano), a fictional, composite figure who is shown to be at the centre of Putin’s rise in post-Soviet Russia. Adapted from Emmanuel Carrère’s 2022 novel of the same name, the film… Read More Movie Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin
By John Corrado Would you want your crush to love you more than anyone in the world? That’s the question at the centre of writer-director Curry Barker’s new horror movie Obsession, one of the big breakout films from last year’s Midnight Madness section at TIFF. Bear (Michael Johnston) is a love-lorn young adult who wishes… Read More Movie Review: Obsession
By John Corrado A brand new “teaser” trailer has just dropped for Wildwood. This is the latest stop-motion animated film from LAIKA, the studio behind modern classics like Coraline, ParaNorman and Kubo and the Two Strings. It’s no surprise coming from them that Wildwood looks visually stunning, with this entire trailer playing like a highlight… Read More New Teaser Trailer for LAIKA’s Wildwood
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 8th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (Wide Release): This solid concert film, co-directed by Billie Eilish and legendary filmmaker James Cameron, captures Eilish on her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour. It’s shot in… Read More New This Week (05/08/2026): Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), Omaha, & More!
By John Corrado Billie Eilish teams up with none other than visionary filmmaker James Cameron to co-direct Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), a solid concert film that will thrill her fans and provides an eye-popping, visually dazzling 3D experience. While Eilish and Cameron might seem like an… Read More Movie Review: Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
By John Corrado Director Cole Webley’s debut feature Omaha is a quiet heartbreaker of a film that delivers a huge emotional impact as it mixes road movie and family drama. The film opens in the early morning, with a dad (John Magaro) bringing his sleeping son Charlie (Wyatt Solis) out to the car, and waking… Read More Movie Review: Omaha
By John Corrado Following a successful run in theatres, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is being released on physical media this week, including 4K Ultra HD. Fennell’s adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff, in a sweeping period love story. The film mainly received mixed reviews,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Wuthering Heights
By John Corrado A24 has just released the first trailer for their upcoming Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, which stars Dominic Sessa as the celebrity chef. The main reason I’m intrigued by this one is because it’s directed by none other than Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson, who is coming off the recent critical success of his… Read More First Trailer for Matt Johnson’s Tony
By John Corrado The new trailer just dropped at midnight for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. This is, of course, the filmmaker’s epic followup to Oscar-winning Oppenheimer. The new trailer shows off a lot more footage from the film, which looks huge in scope, as well as more members of the ensemble cast, including Robert Pattinson… Read More New Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto The Kabin Crew, a group of aspiring child rappers and musicians in Cork, Ireland, went viral in 2024 with the high energy music video for their upbeat song “The Spark.” The kids behind the viral sensation are… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Gealtra
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto In his documentary The Oldest Person in the World, filmmaker Sam Green focuses on people who have lived for over a century. These are the world record holders for longest lifespan, with French woman Jeanne Calment holding… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: The Oldest Person in the World
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Soraya, the young subject at the centre of A Fox Under a Pink Moon, is an Afghan teen girl living in Iran, who is trying to flee across the Turkish border so she can make her way… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: A Fox Under a Pink Moon
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto When it opened fifty years ago in 1976, the CN Tower instantly became a focal point of Toronto. It was the tallest building in the world, and would remain so for decades until the Burj Khalifa was… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: The Tower That Built a City
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 1st, 2026. Theatrical Releases: The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Wide Release): This twenty years later sequel to the 2006 modern classic, which scored Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, finds former assistant Andy Sacks (Anne Hathaway) returning… Read More New This Week (05/01/2026): The Devil Wears Prada 2, & More!
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Janay Boulos is a Lebanese journalist living in London, working as an Arabic correspondent for the BBC. Abd Alkader Habak is a photographer in Syria, forced to flee from the city of Idlib to Aleppo, as the… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Birds of War
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Director Tommy Avallone’s flashy documentary Myspace is a look at the rise and fall of the original social media platform, taking us back to the internet culture of the early to mid-2000s. Avallone explores the history of… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Myspace
By John Corrado It’s somehow been twenty years since the release of The Devil Wears Prada in 2006, which netted Meryl Streep one of her many Oscar nominations for her ice queen performance as Miranda Priestly, the Anna Wintour-inspired editor of a New York fashion magazine. Now we have a sequel, The Devil Wears Prada… Read More Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2
By John Corrado The 2026 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 23rd to May 3rd in Toronto Kenny Loggins is the latest musical artist to get a career retrospective in the form of a documentary. Directed by Dori Berinstein, Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart is a portrait of the musician, who scored massive… Read More #HotDocs26 Review: Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart
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