By John Corrado Focus Features has now released the first teaser trailer for Hamnet. This is Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloe Zhao’s return to the awards season race, after her Marvel foray Eternals. This one stars Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare and Jessie Buckley as his wife Agnes, telling the tragic story that inspired Hamlet. Their… Read More Teaser Trailer for Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 22nd, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Honey Don’t! (Limited Release): Margaret Qualley stars as private investigator Honey O’Donahue in this second solo effort from director Ethan Coen, following last year’s Drive-Away Dolls. I was pretty mixed on this one. It’s occasionally entertaining, and Qualley has some fun… Read More New This Week (08/22/2025): Honey Don’t!, Ne Zha II, & More!
By John Corrado Ne Zha II is the Chinese blockbuster that became the highest grossing animated film of all time, beating the record previously set by Inside Out 2 just last year, almost entirely from what it grossed in China alone. The film had previously been released in North American theatres earlier this year, and now we… Read More Movie Review: Ne Zha II
By John Corrado Honey Don’t! is the second solo film from director Ethan Coen, who first split from his brother Joel to make last year’s crime comedy Drive-Away Dolls, a collaboration with his wife and co-writer Tricia Cooke. This latest, which was also co-written by Coen and Cooke and is the second in their planned… Read More Movie Review: Honey Don’t!
By John Corrado The live-action remake of DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon was a slam-dunk hit at the box office earlier this summer, and now it’s available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. I reviewed this one in theatres (you can read my full thoughts on the film here), and was somewhat pleasantly… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: How to Train Your Dragon (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Netflix has just put out the first trailer for Ballad of a Small Player, the latest film from German director Edward Berger. Berger’s last two films were, of course, the Oscar heavyweights Conclave and All Quiet on the Western Front, so expectations are naturally high for this one. Colin Farrell stars as… Read More Trailer for Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 15th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Nobody 2 (Wide Release): Bob Odenkirk returns as the contract killer and family man in this sequel to his 2021 action flick. This sequel sends Odenkirk’s Hutch and his family going on vacation to an old school water park, where most… Read More New This Week (08/15/2025): Nobody 2, & More!
By John Corrado Bob Odenkirk returns as contract killer and family man Hutch Mansell in Nobody 2, the pretty good sequel to the 2021 pandemic-era action flick that did modestly well in theatres and found even more of an audience on VOD. And this slightly higher-budgeted followup kinda feels like an old school action movie… Read More Movie Review: Nobody 2
By John Corrado A24 has just released the first trailer for Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet as aspiring ping pong player Marty Mauser. It’s easily one of the most hotly anticipated films of the rest of the year, and this trailer (set to “Forever Young”) suggests the film will live up to the hype. This… Read More First Trailer for Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just put out the first trailer and poster for Swiped. Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Unpregnant) directs this based-on-a-true-story film, which stars Lily James in the role of Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of online dating apps Tinder and Bumble. Lofty comparisons to The Social Network might be unavoidable. Otherwise, this… Read More First Trailer for Swiped, premiering at TIFF
By John Corrado Weapons, the ambitious new horror movie from director Zach Cregger who burst onto the scene with Barbarian in 2022, opens with a killer hook. One night, at 2:17am, seventeen kids all woke up, got out of bed, walked out their front doors, and disappeared. At the start of the film, we see… Read More Movie Review: Weapons
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 8th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Freakier Friday (Wide Release): Disney’s legacy sequel to their 2003 body-swap comedy finds Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan returning to their roles as mother and daughter. I saw this one the other day, and was pleasantly surprised by how much… Read More New This Week (08/08/2025): Freakier Friday, Weapons, & More!
By John Corrado My Mother’s Wedding, which actually premiered at TIFF two years ago under the original title North Star, is the directorial debut of actress Kristin Scott Thomas, who also appears in the film as the titular mother getting married. But this uneven comedy-drama mainly focuses on her character Diana Frost’s three adult daughters;… Read More Movie Review: My Mother’s Wedding
By John Corrado A belated sequel to Disney’s 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as mother and daughter who switch places with each other, could have easily gone off the rails. Especially since that film was already a remake of an earlier movie from 1976 (starring Jodie Foster),… Read More Movie Review: Freakier Friday
By John Corrado Searchlight Pictures has revealed our first look at Rental Family, which is shaping up to be one of the hottest titles of the fall. Brendan Fraser, fresh off his Oscar win for The Whale, stars in the film as a washed up American actor living in Japan, who gets hired by a… Read More First Trailer for Rental Family, starring Brendan Fraser
By John Corrado Netflix has just put out the first teaser trailer for their upcoming film Jay Kelly. This is the new movie from filmmaker Noah Baumbach, his first since the divisive, big budget White Noise in 2022. This one is poised to follow the path of Marriage Story in 2019, and put him squarely… Read More Teaser Trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just put out the first trailer and poster for Ella McCay. This is the new dramedy from writer-director James L. Brooks, his first since How Do You Know in 2009. I’m obviously a big fan of Brooks’ classics like Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good As… Read More First Trailer for James L. Brooks’ Ella McCay
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 1st, 2025. Theatrical Releases: The Naked Gun (Wide Release): Liam Neeson takes over the iconic Leslie Nielsen role in director Akiva Schaffer’s reboot of the classic police spoof series. And it’s really, really funny. Neeson is wonderfully deadpan in the role of Frank Drebin Jr.,… Read More New This Week (08/01/2025): The Naked Gun, The Bad Guys 2, & More!
By John Corrado Disney’s Zootopia was a wonderful surprise back in 2016, and it’s become a fan favourite over the years, so a sequel was inevitable. Now we are finally getting one nearly a decade later with Zootopia 2, and the studio has just put out a brand new trailer for the film. This sequel… Read More New Trailer for Disney’s Zootopia 2!
By John Corrado How do you reboot the classic police spoof The Naked Gun without its star Leslie Nielsen, especially when the spoof genre itself has sadly withered away over the past few decades? You hire Liam Neeson to take over the role. Yes, that Neeson, who is best known as a dramatic actor and… Read More Movie Review: The Naked Gun
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