By John Corrado Adapted from the classic children’s novels by Enid Blyton, The Magic Faraway Tree is a British live-action family film that works mostly as a cute and charming adventure. The story follows Tim Thompson (Andrew Garfield) and his wife Polly (Claire Foy), as they move to the countryside with their three kids. The… Read More Movie Review: The Magic Faraway Tree
By John Corrado Directed by Kent Jones, the film Late Fame mainly exists to give a formidable late career role to Willem Dafoe, an actor whose own current standing among young cinephiles could be seen as being mirrored in the film’s narrative. Dafoe stars in the film as Ed Saxberger, a poet living in New… Read More Movie Review: Late Fame
By John Corrado The winners of the 18th Dorian TV Awards, presented by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (of which I am one of the group’s 580 members), have just been announced. I’m pleased to say that the big winner this year is Canada’s own queer hockey Heated Rivalry, which won the awards… Read More Winners of the 2026 Dorian TV Awards
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 14th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Tony (Limited Release): Fresh off the breakout success of his Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson directs this Anthony Bourdain biopic for A24, which unfolds over one summer in the young chef’s life. Dominic Sessa is… Read More New This Week (08/14/2026): Tony, The End of Oak Street, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, & More!
By John Corrado Director Andrew Patterson’s The Rivals of Amziah King, the long awaited follow up to his 2019 breakout film The Vast of Night, is finally arriving in theatres after premiering at SXSW in 2025, nearly a year-and-a-half ago. This delay isn’t because the movie isn’t good (because it is good), but likely due… Read More Movie Review: The Rivals of Amziah King
By John Corrado The film Tony, Canadian director Matt Johnson’s new biopic of Anthony Bourdain, opens with a quote from the celebrity chef’s bestselling 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential. “I was – to be frank – a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, badly in need of a good ass-kicking,” the screen reads. And… Read More Movie Review: Tony
By John Corrado Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the third film from director Jane Schoenbrun, is a tribute to 1980s slasher movies channeled through a meta, queer lens. In this way, Camp Miasma serves as an interesting companion piece to Schoenbrun’s haunting 2023 sophomore film I Saw the TV Glow, which also operated… Read More Movie Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 7th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Ice Cream Man (Wide Release): Eli Roth’s latest torture porn slasher flick is about a sinister Ice Cream Man (played by Ari Millen) who gives out frozen treats that turn kids into murderous zombies. As I wrote in my review,… Read More New This Week (08/07/2026): Ice Cream Man, One Night Only, & More!
By John Corrado Eli Roth’s latest bad-taste splatter flick Ice Cream Man is a passion project that the horror filmmaker has been trying to get made for years, and finally had to self-produce under the banner of his new production company The Horror Section. The result is an idiotic horror comedy (?) that is never… Read More Movie Review: Ice Cream Man
By John Corrado A24 has released the full trailer for Primetime, a movie about To Catch a Predator‘s Chris Hansen starring Robert Pattinson as the controversial reality TV host. Pattinson, who also has roles in The Drama, The Odyssey and Dune: Part Three this year, looks and sounds incredible in the role. This could be… Read More Official Trailer for Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson
By John Corrado When Spider-Man: No Way Home was released back in 2021, it felt like a culmination of things in so many ways, not only as a capper to the Tom Holland trilogy, but also as a thrilling, two-decades-in-the-making crossover event (and celebration) for cinematic Spidey fans. It was always going to be a… Read More Movie Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
By John Corrado New releases for the week of July 31st, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Wide Release): Tom Holland’s Spidey is back in this follow-up to 2021’s massive hit Spider-Man: No Way Home. I just saw it yesterday and you can count me as a fan. This sequel finds a way to… Read More New This Week (07/31/2026): Spider-Man: Brand New Day, & More!
By John Corrado Sheep in the Box, named for a passage in The Little Prince, is the latest work from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who has proven himself a master of quietly observed character studies that raise thorny emotional questions. On paper, at least, this makes Kore-eda, serving as both writer and director, a natural fit… Read More Movie Review: Sheep in the Box
By John Corrado I Want Your Sex is indie filmmaker Gregg Araki’s first film in twelve years since 2014’s White Bird in a Blizzard, and it’s a very fun movie that works as both high camp sex comedy and clever satirical commentary. The film follows Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a bored and somewhat sexually frustrated young… Read More Movie Review: I Want Your Sex
By John Corrado The first teaser trailer dropped this morning for The Thomas Crown Affair, Michael B. Jordan’s fresh take on the heist films of the same name from 1968 and 1999, respectively. Jordan is directing this one, and it’s also his first big role since winning the Best Actor Oscar for Sinners earlier this… Read More First Teaser Trailer for Michael B. Jordan’s The Thomas Crown Affair
By John Corrado One of my favourite movies of the year so far, the fantastic World War II drama Pressure is being released on physical media this week, including 4K Ultra HD. Andrew Scott stars in the film as James Stagg, the meteorologist tasked with providing General Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) the weather forecast for D-Day.… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Pressure (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of July 24th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Her Private Hell (Limited Release): It’s a somewhat slow week for new releases, landing right in between The Odyssey and next week’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The “biggest” film this week is this latest from Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive,… Read More New This Week (07/24/2026): Her Private Hell, & More!
By John Corrado The first trailer (and poster) for Ebenezer has just been released online, following its unveiling at San Diego’s Comic-Con today. Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) directs this new take on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge in what is being hyped up as the actor’s… Read More First Trailer for Ebenezer, starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge…
By John Corrado Her Private Hell is the latest film from Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, whose 2011 thriller Drive starring Ryan Gosling is the closest thing he’s had to a mainstream hit, and a far better movie than anything he’s made since. This is Refn’s first film in a decade since 2016’s The Neon… Read More Movie Review: Her Private Hell
By John Corrado A24 has just dropped the first trailer for Misty Green, a Hollywood satire written and directed by Chris Rock, starring actress Rosalind Eleazar in the titular role as a washed up actress trying to make her comeback. The supporting cast includes Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Adam Driver, as well as Rock himself.… Read More First Trailer for Chris Rock’s Misty Green
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