By John Corrado The 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto Director Noam Gonick’s documentary Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance, which opens this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival, looks at the history of gay rights in Canada, and the origins of our country’s first Pride Parades as… Read More #HotDocs25 Review: Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
By John Corrado Disneynature’s Earth Day releases have been an annual tradition since 2009, when the studio released Earth. The films have since shifted away from being theatrical releases and migrated to being released direct to streaming on Disney Plus, but the tradition remains largely the same. In Sea Lions of the Galapagos, the latest… Read More Movie Review: Sea Lions of the Galapagos (Disney+)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 18th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Sinners (Wide Release): Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed) directs this period piece vampire movie, starring Michael B. Jordan in a dual role. Reviews have been stellar for the film, which was shot on 65mm film by cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw. I’ve… Read More New This Week (04/18/2025): Sinners, The Wedding Banquet, & More!
By John Corrado A contemporary remake of the 1993 Ang Lee film of the same name, The Wedding Banquet is a queer crowdpleaser that could best be described as a modern screwball comedy. This updated version focuses on two same-sex couples, instead of just one, and moves the setting to Seattle. But the basic setup… Read More Movie Review: The Wedding Banquet
By John Corrado Disney has just released the new trailer for Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. This is the highly anticipated reboot that officially brings Marvel’s “First Family” into the fold of the MCU. And it looks fun. I’m mainly interested to see Marvel playing around in the Space Age 1960s. Pedro Pascal stars… Read More New Trailer for The Fantastic Four: Four Steps
By John Corrado Distributor NEON has just released the new official trailer for TIFF People’s Choice Award winner The Life of Chuck. This trailer reveals more of director Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation, including glimpses of Tom Hiddleston’s titular Chuck. The dance sequence is wisely being kept hidden, but is hinted at. We also hear… Read More Official Trailer for The Life of Chuck
By John Corrado A24 has released the first teaser trailer for writer-director Ari Aster’s Eddington. This is the latest film from Aster, following his acclaimed horror films Hereditary and Midsommar and the highly divisive “nightmare comedy” Beau is Afraid in 2023. This one finds Aster re-teaming with Beau star Joaquin Phoenix, and is described as… Read More Teaser Trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington
By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 11th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Warefare (Wide Release): Director Alex Garland delivered one of the better movies of last year with his speculative Civil War, and now he returns to A24 to co-direct – with real life Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza – this fact-based portrait… Read More New This Week (04/11/2025): Warfare, Sacramento, & More!
By John Corrado Actor Michael Angarano directs and stars in Sacramento, a dramedy about masculinity and fatherhood that hits a lot of the expected beats, but still has enough of a scrappy charm to it. Angarano stars as Rickey, an immature man-child in LA who has recently lost his father, when he comes crashing back… Read More Movie Review: Sacramento
By John Corrado The new trailer has just dropped for Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise in what is said to be his final mission as Ethan Hunt. Everybody should already be sold on this movie. The Mission: Impossible series has turned into one of our most reliable blockbuster franchises, with… Read More New Trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By John Corrado Focus Features has just unveiled the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, the filmmaker’s first film since 2023’s underrated Asteroid City. This one is touted as being an espionage thriller, but the trailer reveals that it will still be very much in line with Anderson’s usual artistic style. We get… Read More First Trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first trailer for Tron: Ares, the long-awaited follow up to the 2010 legacy sequel Tron: Legacy. This one concerns a computer program, Ares, getting loose in the real world. A sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film Tron, Tron: Legacy was a visually dazzling experience with an awesome… Read More First Trailer for Disney’s Tron: Ares
By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 4th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: A Minecraft Movie (Wide Release): The biggest of this week’s new releases is this adaptation of the immensely popular online game. The cast includes Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Jennifer Coolidge. It’s directed by Jared Hess, of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho… Read More New This Week (04/04/2025): A Minecraft Movie, The Ballad of Wallis Island, & More!
By John Corrado The Luckiest Man in America is the based-on-a-true-story tale of Michael Larson (played by Paul Walter Hauser), an ice cream truck driver from Ohio who had an incredible winning streak on the game show Press Your Luck in the 1980s. Like other contemporary films about live TV from a similar era such… Read More Movie Review: The Luckiest Man in America
By John Corrado Director James Griffiths’ entirely enjoyable dramedy The Ballad of Wallis Island opens with musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) arriving on the remote Wallis Island to play what he believes is an intimate solo gig. Herb is formerly one half of the fictional folk music duo McGwyer & Mortimer, and has been brought… Read More Movie Review: The Ballad of Wallis Island
By John Corrado DreamWorks Animation has always had two modes, which is what allows the studio to balance prestige animated films with more cartoony efforts. So for every How to Train Your Dragon, there’s a Boss Baby. This is why the studio is able to so effortlessly follow up a great film like last year’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dog Man (Collector’s Edition 2000)
By John Corrado Love Hurts is a new romantic action comedy that is mainly set up as a star vehicle for recent supporting actor Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose. Quan, of course, is the former child star of The Goonies and Temple of Doom who won Best Supporting Actor for his big… Read More Blu-ray Review: Love Hurts (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of March 28th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Bob Trevino Likes It (Limited Release): This winner of the SXSW Audience Award in 2024 stars Barbie Ferreira stars as a young woman who becomes estranged from her father (French Stewart), and befriends a man with the same name as him… Read More New This Week (03/28/2025): Bob Trevino Likes It, The Penguin Lessons, & More!
By John Corrado In her feature debut, the crowd-pleasing dramedy Bob Trevino Likes It, writer-director Tracie Laymon crafts a surprisingly tender portrait of an unlikely friendship, drawn from her own life. Lily Trevino (Barbie Ferreira) is a bubbly but insecure young woman who has a strained relationship with her self-absorbed father Robert (French Stewart). When… Read More Movie Review: Bob Trevino Likes It
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the first trailer for One Battle After Another, the highly anticipated new film from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. Leonardo DiCaprio leads the stacked cast, which also includes Regina Hall, Benicio Del Toro and Teyana Taylor, with Sean Penn as the neo-Nazi antagonist in what is reported to… Read More First Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another
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