By John Corrado The first thing we hear in filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski’s new French-language thriller A Private Life (or Vie privée) is the distinctive strains of The Talking Heads song “Psycho Killer.” The song is leaking into the office of psychiatrist Lillian Steiner (Jodie Foster), as it’s being blasted by her neighbours in the apartment… Read More Movie Review: A Private Life
By John Corrado The 98th Academy Award nominations have just been announced. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is way out front, leading the pack with a record-breaking sixteen nominations. For context, the previous record for a single film was fourteen, held by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land. It’s followed closely by Paul Thomas Anderson’s… Read More Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards
By John Corrado Following a successful run in theatres, Paul Thomas Anderson’s awards favourite One Battle After Another is now available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. I already gave high praise to this one when I saw it in theatres (you can read my full review right here), and also included it on… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: One Battle After Another
By John Corrado Jon M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, the second act of the director’s two-part adaptation of the Broadway musical, is now available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. I was a fan of this one when I saw it in theatres (you can read my full review right here). Even if it… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Wicked: For Good
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 16th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Dead Man’s Wire (Limited Release): Gus Van Sant’s based-on-true-events crime drama tells the story of the tense standoff that unfolded when Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) took a mortgage broker (Dacre Montgomery) hostage in 1977 with a shotgun strapped to his neck,… Read More New This Week (01/16/2026): Dead Man’s Wire, Charlie the Wonderdog, All You Need is Kill, & More!
By John Corrado The main appeal of Charlie the Wonderdog, the first animated feature from British Colombia’s ICON Creative Studio, is getting to hear Owen Wilson voice an aging dog who gets a new lease on life. Wilson brings his usual laid-back charm to his portrayal of the titular “wonderdog,” so it’s no wonder (pun… Read More Movie Review: Charlie the Wonderdog
By John Corrado All You Need is Kill is an anime adaptation of Japanese author Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s graphic novel of the same name, which already provided the basis for Doug Liman’s 2014 time loop action film Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Where as Sakurazaka’s book and Liman’s film (also referred to… Read More Movie Review: All You Need is Kill
By John Corrado The official trailer has just been released for Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson’s wildly entertaining time travel comedy. This one premiered at SXSW last year, and also got a hometown welcome as the opening night film of TIFF’s Midnight Madness section, where it very easily won… Read More Official Trailer for Matt Johnson’s Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie!
By John Corrado The nominations for the 2026 Dorian Film Awards, presented by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (of which I am a member), have just been announced. Paul Thomas Anderson’s seemingly unstoppable award season juggernaut One Battle After Another is leading the pack with nine nominations, followed closely by Ryan Coogler’s Sinners… Read More One Battle After Another and Sinners Lead the 2026 Dorian Film Awards Nominations
By John Corrado The Choral is a British period drama set during World War I. But instead of taking us to the Western Front, the story stays focused on the best efforts of a choir in a small English town that is desperate to deliver a distraction from the ongoing war. It’s an approach that… Read More Movie Review: The Choral
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 9th, 2026. Theatrical Releases: Father Mother Sister Brother (Limited Release): Jim Jarmusch’s latest film, which won the Golden Lion at Venice, is a triptych following three sets of family members across three separate chapters. The ensemble cast includes some lovely work from Adam Driver, Mayim… Read More New This Week (01/09/2026): Father Mother Sister Brother, The Choral, & More!
By John Corrado In Rosemead, the well-crafted but disturbing feature directorial debut of cinematographer Eric Lin, Lucy Liu stars as a widowed Chinese-American mother in Southern California who is struggling to support her mentally ill teenaged son. Liu’s Irene is terminally ill from cancer, the same disease that took her husband. Meanwhile, she is struggling… Read More Movie Review: Rosemead
By John Corrado In his latest film, the triptych anthology movie Father Mother Sister Brother which was awarded the Golden Lion at Venice, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch offers another collection of observations on human nature and interaction. The film itself unfolds in three separate chapters that aren’t connected, per se, but all share narrative beats and… Read More Movie Review: Father Mother Sister Brother
By John Corrado In We Bury the Dead, Australian writer-director Zak Hilditch offers his own take on the zombie movie and survival thriller. The film opens with news reports of a magnetic pulse weapon accidentally being deployed by the United States military during testing, killing half-a-million people in Tasmania. Daisy Ridley, continuing her post Disney… Read More Movie Review: We Bury the Dead
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 2nd, 2026. Happy New Year! Theatrical Releases: We Bury the Dead (Wide Release): There aren’t a ton of big releases in this post-holiday window, but we are getting this new zombie thriller starring Daisy Ridley (of Disney Star Wars fame). It comes to us from… Read More New This Week (01/02/2026): We Bury the Dead, Stranger Things 5: The Finale, & More!
By John Corrado There you have it, folks. We have reached the end of 2025. Another year has officially come and gone, which means that it’s time for my countdown of the best movies of 2025. Or, perhaps more correctly, my favourite movies released this year. This includes, in no short order, a trio of… Read More The Best Movies of 2025
By John Corrado Ethan Hawke returns as The Grabber in Black Phone 2, director Scott Derrickson’s followup to his 2021 film The Black Phone. This poses a unique challenge for the horror sequel, seeing as Hawke’s mask-wearing, child-napping serial killer was already killed in the first film. But, as we know from this genre, there… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Black Phone 2 (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of December 25th, 2025. Merry Christmas and God bless us, everyone! Theatrical Releases: Marty Supreme (Wide Release): Timothée Chalamet stars as a ping pong player in this exhilarating 1950s-set sports epic from Josh Safdie, one half of the directing duo behind Good Time and Uncut Gems. It… Read More New This Week (12/25/2025): Marty Supreme, Song Sung Blue, No Other Choice, & More!
By John Corrado The music biopic has become a way for films to capitalize off the recognizable song catalogues of their respective musical artists. This brings us to Song Sung Blue, which does a similar thing with the music of Neil Diamond (it’s named for one of his catchiest songs, after all). But, despite following… Read More Movie Review: Song Sung Blue
By John Corrado The first teaser (and poster) for Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday is now officially online, after playing exclusively in theatres in front of Avatar: Fire and Ash (and inevitably leaking online). The film finds directors Anthony and Joe Russo returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following Infinity War and Endgame. This short teaser, which… Read More First Teaser for Avengers: Doomsday
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