By John Corrado New releases for the week of September 27th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: The Wild Robot (Wide Release): This latest film from DreamWorks Animation, which is opening today after premiering at TIFF a few weeks ago, is truly something special. The film follows Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o), a robot who crash lands on… Read More New This Week (09/27/2024): The Wild Robot, Megalopolis, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of September 20th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: The Substance (Wide Release): Director Coralie Fargeat’s brilliant body horror The Substance opens today, fresh off of winning the Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award at TIFF. I’ve seen it twice now with different audiences (first at a press screening, and again… Read More New This Week (09/20/2024): The Substance, My Old Ass, Transformers One, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of September 6th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Wide Release): This long-awaited legacy sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 fan favourite Beetlejuice finds Michael Keaton reprising his role as “the ghost with the most.” Winona Ryder also reprises her role from the original, with Jenna Ortega joining the… Read More New This Week (09/06/2024): Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 30th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Reagan (Wide Release): Dennis Quaid stars in this new biopic of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. Director Sean McNamara’s film mainly concerns (and is at its best when focusing on) Reagan’s steadfast fight against communism, to win… Read More New This Week (08/30/2024): Reagan, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 23rd, 2024. Theatrical Releases: The Crow (Wide Release): This remake of the 1994 supernatural thriller with the late Brandon Lee (who infamously died in a tragic on-set accident), stars Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs. I didn’t attend the screening so can’t offer a review, but… Read More New This Week (08/23/2024): The Crow, Between the Temples, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 16th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Alien: Romulus (Wide Release): The biggest of this week’s many new releases is Alien: Romulus, director Fede Alvarez’s new addition to the Alien franchise. As I wrote in my review, the film “works because it is trying to be an old… Read More New This Week (08/16/2024): Alien: Romulus, Good One, Close to You, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 9th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Borderlands (Wide Release): Eli Roth takes a stab at trying to bring the video game Borderlands to the big screen, and the result is kind of a mess. This is an uninspired sci-fi adventure, that feels slapped together from a variety… Read More New This Week (08/09/2024): Borderlands, Cuckoo, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 2nd, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Trap (Wide Release): M. Night Shyamalan returns with this serial killer thriller set a pop concert, starring Josh Hartnett (and the director’s own daughter Saleka Shyamalan as the pop singer). It wasn’t screened for critics, but I’ll be seeing it next… Read More New This Week (08/02/2024): Trap, Sing Sing, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of July 26th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Deadpool & Wolverine (Wide Release): Marvel’s highly anticipated team-up between Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) has finally arrived. I saw it at a press screening earlier in the week, and it’s a lot of fun. As I wrote, it… Read More New This Week (07/26/2024): Deadpool & Wolverine, Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of July 19th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Twisters (Wide Release): Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) directs this belated followup to the classic 1996 blockbuster Twister. I just saw it in a theatre this afternoon, and it feels like a proper, made-for-the-big-screen summer blockbuster. It’s a fun thrill ride that… Read More New This Week (07/19/2024): Twisters, Young Woman and the Sea, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of July 12th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Longlegs (Wide Release): This latest from writer-director Osgood Perkins is a deeply unsettling mix of horror movie and police procedural. Maika Monroe stars as a rookie FBI agent put on the somewhat cold case of a serial killer who calls himself… Read More New This Week (07/12/2024): Longlegs, Fly Me to the Moon, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of July 5th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Despicable Me 4 (Wide Release): This fourth entry in the Despicable Me series (sixth if you count the two Minions spinoffs) is already making bank at the box office following its release for the Fourth of July. The animated sequel finds… Read More New This Week (07/05/2024): Despicable Me 4, Kill, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, & More!