By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 19th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Toy Story 5 (Wide Release): The big movie this week, and the one already setting box office records in early sales, is this latest sequel in Pixar’s flagship franchise. By focusing on Jessie (Joan Cusack), and having a modern “toys vs.… Read More New This Week (06/19/2026): Toy Story 5, Girls Like Girls, Leviticus, & More!
By John Corrado Maddie’s Secret is the feature directorial debut of American comedian John Early, who also wrote the script, and stars in the film – in full drag – as the titular Maddie Ralph, a millennial woman who’s got a secret. The result is a satirical dark comedy that is tonally entirely its own… Read More Movie Review: Maddie’s Secret
By John Corrado The horror movie Leviticus, which serves as the feature directorial debut of Australian writer-director Adrian Chiarella, plays almost like an explicitly queer take on It Follows, David Robert Mitchell’s STD-themed indie horror flick from 2014. This slow-burn film follows Naim (Joe Bird) and Ryan (Stacy Clausen), two closeted teen boys in rural… Read More Movie Review: Leviticus
By John Corrado The nominations for the 17th Dorian TV Awards, presented by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, have just been announced. Leading the pack in Drama is Heated Rivalry, the Canadian queer hockey series that has become a phenomenon. As one of GALECA’s Canadian members, I’m thriller by the CanCon representation. The… Read More Nominations for the 2026 Dorian TV Awards
By John Corrado The origins of Girls Like Girls, the feature directorial debut of singer, songwriter and actress Hayley Kiyoko, stem back to her 2015 song “Girls Like Girls” and the music video she co-directed for it. That video for the song, which became a queer anthem of the mid-2010s, got expanded into Kiyoko’s 2023… Read More Movie Review: Girls Like Girls
By John Corrado Pixar’s Toy Story franchise is 31 years old this year, having begun with the first film in 1995. This means that many viewers (myself included) have grown up with the series. Case in point, I was the same age as Andy when Toy Story 3 came out in 2010, so these films… Read More Movie Review: Toy Story 5
By John Corrado Disclosure Day is the latest blockbuster from director Steven Spielberg, following his semi-autobiographical 2022 film The Fabelmans (which was also my personal favourite movie of 2022). And it’s a gripping film filled with mystery, intrigue and suspense, as well as surprisingly moving spiritual themes, that reminds us why he is one of… Read More Movie Review: Disclosure Day
By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 12th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Disclosure Day (Wide Release): This latest blockbuster from Steven Spielberg finds the legendary filmmaker returning to his sci-fi roots. It’s a story about aliens, centred around a whistleblower (Josh O’Connor) trying to reveal their existence to the world. I just saw… Read More New This Week (06/12/2026): Disclosure Day, Stop! That! Train!, The Furious, & More!
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first trailer (and poster) for Gatto, the next film from Pixar following the soon-to-be blockbuster Toy Story 5. This trailer, which is really more of a teaser and will surely play in front of all screenings of TS5, reveals the first footage from the film, which is… Read More First Trailer for Disney and Pixar’s Gatto!
By John Corrado What if you made a disaster movie parody in the spirit of Airplane!, but starring a cast of drag queens who play the entire thing in character as women? That’s the premise behind Stop! That! Train!, the new comedy from producer RuPaul and director Adam Shankman. The result is a proudly stupid comedy… Read More Movie Review: Stop! That! Train!
By John Corrado The first trailer has been unveiled for The Social Reckoning, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s “companion piece” to 2010 film The Social Network. Sorkin is also directing this time around, taking over from David Fincher, while Jeremy Strong is taking over from Jessie Eisenberg in the role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. This film… Read More First Trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning
By John Corrado A lot has already been made about the fact that Kane Parsons, the director of Backrooms, is only 20-years-old, and for good reason. It’s impressive because this is such an assured feature debut from him, with Parsons showing a clear vision throughout this liminal spaces horror movie. Expanded from the series of… Read More Movie Review: Backrooms
By John Corrado The Wayans brothers make their return to the horror spoof genre with Scary Movie, the sixth movie in the comedy franchise that sees them regaining control of the series for the first time since the first two. Back under the creative control of the Wayans (who left the series before the fan… Read More Movie Review: Scary Movie
By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 5th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Scary Movie (Wide Release): This sixth film in the Scary Movie franchise serves as a soft reboot, with the Wayans brothers at the helm for the first time since the first two. They are trying to recapture the earlier magic of… Read More New This Week (06/05/2026): Scary Movie, Masters of the Universe, Power Ballad, & More!
By John Corrado The name John Carney has become synonymous with a certain type of music drama. Ever since his debut film Once broke out in 2007, carried along by it’s Oscar-winning song “Falling Slowly,” the Irish filmmaker has carved out a nice little niche for himself crafting a series of very good films –… Read More Movie Review: Power Ballad
By John Corrado How much fun you have with the new He-Man movie Masters of the Universe will all depend on how much nostalgia you have for the IP itself. Directed by Travis Knight, the film serves as a reboot of the franchise that spans from Mattel action figures, a 1980s cartoon series, and the… Read More Movie Review: Masters of the Universe
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 29th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Pressure (Wide Release): This World War II thriller finds a fresh angle to exploring D-Day, by focusing on the weather reports needed to carry out the attack in the tense 72 hours leading up to it. It’s carried by an excellent… Read More New This Week (05/29/2026): Pressure, Tuner, Backrooms, & More!
By John Corrado In the fantastic new World War II movie Pressure, Australian director Anthony Maras (Hotel Mumbai) finds a fresh angle to explore the events surrounding D-Day, by focusing specifically on the weather forecasts required to pull off the attack. It’s a surprisingly gripping setup for this film, which Maras co-wrote with David Haig. Based… Read More Movie Review: Pressure
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 22nd, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (Wide Release): The first new Star Wars movie in theatres since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, this is a big screen spinoff of the Disney Plus streaming series, following the further adventures of Din Djarin… Read More New This Week (05/22/2026): Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, I Love Boosters, & More!
By John Corrado I Love Boosters, musician turned writer-director Boots Riley’s followup to his 2018 film Sorry to Bother You, is another “surrealist critique of capitalism” that only cost $20 million to produce, and has all the subtlety or nuance of a sledgehammer. We are left with a film that is candy-coloured and, well, kind… Read More Movie Review: I Love Boosters
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