By John Corrado Disney has just released the new, full-length trailer for Zootopia 2. This is the highly anticipated sequel to the 2016 smash hit Zootopia, seeing the return of bunny cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), now working together as official law enforcement partners. This trailer gives us a… Read More New Trailer for Disney’s Zootopia 2
By John Corrado Netflix has just put out the official trailer for Jay Kelly. This is Noah Baumbach’s latest film, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler. It premiered at Venice and Telluride, and is about to play at NYFF. I’m still pretty crushed this one didn’t play TIFF. Clooney stars as the titular Jay Kelly,… Read More Official Trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly
By John Corrado Anemone, the feature directorial debut of Ronan Day-Lewis, is notable for bringing the filmmaker’s father, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, out of retirement. This is his first acting role since starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, a film that has only grown in stature in the near-decade since it was released. This already… Read More Movie Review: Anemone
By John Corrado The runtime for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is 162 minutes. The length of the movie is surely one of the least pertinent things about it, but it’s worth mentioning because of how kinetic the film feels. Nearly two hours in, I was surprised there was less than an hour… Read More Movie Review: One Battle After Another
By John Corrado New releases for the week of September 26th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: One Battle After Another (Wide Release): There are an abundance of new releases this week, with the buzziest of them all being Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The early buzz on this one is deafening, with it already… Read More New This Week (09/26/2025): One Battle After Another, Eleanor the Great, The Baltimorons, & More!
By John Corrado In the Finland-shot survival thriller Dead of Winter, which takes place during a Minnesota snowstorm, Emma Thompson is doing her best impression of Frances McDormand in Fargo, and her out-of-character performance is what makes the film worth seeing. Thompson stars as Barb Sorenson, an older lady who is going ice fishing alone… Read More Movie Review: Dead of Winter
By John Corrado A struggling improv comic in Baltimore needs an emergency dentist appointment on Christmas Eve. It sounds like the setup for a joke (and maybe it is), but it’s also the inciting incident of The Baltimorons, a tender and funny chance encounter romance from director Jay Duplass. Duplass crafts the film as a… Read More Movie Review: The Baltimorons
By John Corrado We now have a new trailer (and poster) for Avatar: Fire and Ash, the upcoming third film in James Cameron’s Pandora-set trilogy. This fresh look arrives before the re-release of 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water on October 3rd. It reveals a bit more of the plot and shows us some new… Read More New Trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash
By John Corrado James Gunn’s Superman is the former Marvel filmmaker’s attempt to reboot the DC Cinematic Universe. In doing so, Gunn is going back to the beginning by introducing a new Superman, with David Corenswet taking over the iconic role from Henry Cavill. Gunn and Corenswet’s new version (and vision) of the character couldn’t… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Superman
By John Corrado We now have the final trailer for Wicked: For Good. This is director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Act Two of the musical, with his Wicked: Part One lighting up the box office last year and becoming a major Oscar contender. Universal is clearly hoping to recapture that magic with For Good.… Read More Final Trailer for Wicked: For Good!
By John Corrado The first M3GAN was a campy killer robot movie that mainly became known for the memes generated by the dancing robot girl, which helped turn the Blumhouse film into a box office hit in 2023. This sequel, M3GAN 2.0, somewhat fittingly takes the Terminator 2 approach; the creative team of original director… Read More Blu-ray Review: M3GAN 2.0
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first poster and teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, the big screen continuation of the popular Disney Plus series. Will this translate into being a box office hit? This is the first theatrically released Star Wars movie since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019.… Read More Teaser Trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
By John Corrado New releases for the week of September 19th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Wide Release): Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell star in this romantic fantasy, which is the latest film from director Kogonada. I really liked Kogonada’s previous two films (Columbus and After Yang), so I’m curious to check this… Read More New This Week (09/19/2025): A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Swiped, & More!
By John Corrado Swiped is director Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s glossy biopic of Whitney Wolfe (played by Lily James), a co-founder of ubiquitous dating app Tinder and the creator of Bumble. We first meet Wolfe at a Los Angeles meet-up for tech investors, trying to get financial backers for an app that connects orphanages in other… Read More Movie Review: Swiped (Disney+)
By John Corrado The seventh film in the franchise, Jurassic World Rebirth was one of the biggest box office hits of the summer, and is now available on physical media. You can read my full review of the film right here. This one is directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story),… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Jurassic World Rebirth (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado In his coming-of-age film Olmo, Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke finds the right balance between enjoyable portrait of bratty adolescence, and heavier, more dramatic scenes, telling a small but nuanced father-son story. There’s also some star power behind the film, having been produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The titular Olmo (Aivan… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Olmo (Centrepiece)
By John Corrado In their latest film collaboration Dead Lover, real life couple Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie craft a German Expressionist parody with a real handmade quality to it. Glowicki, who directs the film from a screenplay that she co-wrote with Petrie, stars as a lonely gravedigger. We are told that she smells really,… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Dead Lover (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The entire setup for director Nick Corirossi’s The Napa Boys is itself an elaborate joke; it’s fashioned as the fourth film in a franchise, that has already received a series of spinoffs. Only none of these other entries exist, and the film that is supposed to have spawned this franchise is Alexander… Read More #TIFF50 Review: The Napa Boys (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado A prequel to his 2017 stop-motion film Junk Head, which was in turn based on a 2014 short, Junk World finds Japanese filmmaker Takahide Hori playing around on an even larger canvass. Hori’s film is set in a world of people and clones (called “Mulligans”), who rise up against the humans, leading… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Junk World (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The latest film from director Gus Van Sant, Dead Man’s Wire dramatizes a 1977 kidnapping that saw a disgruntled Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) take mortgage banker Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery) hostage in his apartment. Hall is the son of the man (played by Al Pacino) who owns the mortgage firm that Kiritsis… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Dead Man’s Wire (Special Presentations)
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