By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 30th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Karate Kid: Legends (Wide Release): This latest reboot in the Karate Kid franchise brings together elements from the original films, the 2010 remake, and the Netflix series Cobra Kai. The film stars Ralph Macchio, Jackie Chan and Ben Wang in a… Read More New This Week (05/30/2025): Karate Kid: Legends, Bring Her Back, & More!
By John Corrado Two Women, the latest film from Quebec director Chloé Robichaud (Sarah Prefers to Run), is a raunchy, female-centric comedy that serves as a modern remake of Claude Fournier’s 1970 film Two Women in Gold. Fournier’s original remains an influential piece of Quebec cinema, and Robichaud’s version, which has been adapted and updated… Read More Movie Review: Two Women
By John Corrado Bring Her Back is the unnerving sophomore feature from Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, who began their career as YouTubers (under the pseudonym RackaRacka), before branching out and getting noticed with their A24-backed directorial debut Talk to Me. The same studio, A24, is behind their latest effort as well, which finds… Read More Movie Review: Bring Her Back
By John Corrado A recently widowed mother stuck in a farmhouse with her two kids notices a mysterious woman sitting in her yard. At first the woman, who is covered by a black veil, is at a distance, but her chair keeps moving closer to the house. Who is she? Where did she come from?… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Woman in the Yard (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, the director’s fun, sexy spy movie, is now arriving on Blu-ray following a run in theatres earlier this year. I reviewed the film during its theatrical run, so you can read my full thoughts on it here. But Soderbergh’s latest is a highly enjoyable little mix of espionage… Read More Blu-ray Review: Black Bag (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado The 35th edition of the Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival launches today, with both in-person screenings at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto, and Ontario-wide virtual screenings as well. Tonight’s Opening Night Gala is the Canadian premiere of writer-director Elena Oxman’s drama Outerlands (May 23rd, 7:00pm), starring Asia Kate Dillon. The festival’s Closing… Read More The 2025 Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival Runs from May 23rd to June 1st
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 23rd, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Lilo & Stitch (Wide Release): Disney’s modern redo of their fan favourite 2002 animated film about a girl and her alien is one of the studio’s best live-action remakes. It mainly works because CGI Stitch is adorable, and the child actress… Read More New This Week (05/23/2025): Lilo & Stitch, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, & More!
By John Corrado Agathe Robinson (Camille Rutherford) is an aspiring romance novelist who works as a shopkeeper at Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Company. She fantasizes about Jane Austen, and longs for her own love story, but is perpetually single, and struggling with writer’s block. Agathe is the protagonist of writer-director Laura Piani’s delightful new romantic… Read More Movie Review: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
By John Corrado Spending time with future in-laws can be awkward. Add an interfaith dynamic – and a freak accident – into the mix, and you have the recipe for Bad Shabbos, the entertaining and distinctly Jewish indie comedy from director Daniel Robbins. The film, which won the Audience Award at Tribeca in 2024, centres… Read More Movie Review: Bad Shabbos
By John Corrado Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the eighth entry in the action franchise, and it’s fashioned as a sort of swan song for the series that began nearly thirty years ago in 1996. Over the course of this franchise – especially in the last three directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who returns… Read More Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By John Corrado Sony Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing. This is the director’s followup to his Oscar-winning The Whale, and it looks much lighter in tone than that film, or really any of Aronofsky’s previous works (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, etc.). The tone… Read More Trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing
By John Corrado Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (who previously made the small gem Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), Lilo & Stitch is a delightful, big-hearted family movie that stands out as one of Disney’s best live-action remakes. The original animated film from 2002, about the friendship between a girl and her pet alien,… Read More Movie Review: Lilo & Stitch
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first teaser trailer for Zootopia 2 (which will likely play in front of Lilo & Stitch this weekend). This teaser, which is set to music, doesn’t show us much. But it does give us a glimpse at some of the new worlds that our heroes Nick Wilde… Read More First Teaser for Zootopia 2
By John Corrado Marvel’s Thunderbolts* (that asterisk is actually important) is the latest piece of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it breathes new life into the franchise by largely going back to basics. Despite being the 36th film in the MCU (not to mention all of the Disney Plus streaming series that have gone along… Read More Movie Review: Thunderbolts*
By John Corrado The Cannes film festival is still going strong over in France, and NEON has just put out the first teaser trailer for French filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, one of the most anticipated films in the Official Competition. This is, of course, Ducournau’s follow-up to her 2021 shock Palme d’Or winner Titane (and… Read More Teaser Trailer for Julia Ducournau’s Alpha
By John Corrado There’s this idea introduced at the start of director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners about how every culture has a different word for people who can play music so powerful that it can transcend spirit worlds and “pierce the veil” between the living and the dead. It’s a theme that is prevalent throughout Blues… Read More Movie Review: Sinners
By John Corrado The first teaser trailer has just been released for Nouvelle Vague, director Richard Linklater’s take on the French New Wave and the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic Breathless. This is Linklater’s first film in French, and the beloved American indie filmmaker tackling this period in cinema history is reason enough to be… Read More Teaser Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague
By John Corrado Abel Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd) is undoubtedly a Canadian success story, rising from Scarborough to become one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. Tesfaye, who branched out into acting on the HBO series The Idol, now stars as a version of himself in Hurry Up Tomorrow, which serves as a… Read More Movie Review: Hurry Up Tomorrow
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 16th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Friendship (Limited Release): Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave) stars in this absurdist comedy about male friendship. Robinson is Craig Waterman, a lonely suburbanite who befriends his cool guy neighbour (played by Paul Rudd), only for the friendship to go… Read More New This Week (05/16/2025): Friendship, Hurry Up Tomorrow, & More!
By John Corrado How do you even begin to follow an all-timer movie like Parasite, especially after it becomes the first non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Picture? You make Mickey 17, one of the biggest “blank cheque” movies of all time. In following up his landmark Oscar-winner, Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Mickey 17
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