New This Week (04/25/2025): The Accountant 2, The Legend of Ochi, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of April 25th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: The Accountant 2 (Wide Release): This long-awaited sequel to the 2016 action thriller finds director Gavin O’Connor returning, and Ben Affleck reprising his role as autistic accountant Christian Wolff. Jon Bernthal is also back as the brother. I was a pretty… Read More New This Week (04/25/2025): The Accountant 2, The Legend of Ochi, & More!

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#HotDocs25 Review: Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance

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

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Movie Review: Sea Lions of the Galapagos (Disney+)

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+)

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New This Week (04/18/2025): Sinners, The Wedding Banquet, & More!

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!

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New Trailer for The Fantastic Four: Four Steps

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

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Official Trailer for The Life of Chuck

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

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Teaser Trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington

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

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New This Week (04/11/2025): Warfare, Sacramento, & More!

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!

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New Trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

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

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First Trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme

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

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New This Week (04/04/2025): A Minecraft Movie, The Ballad of Wallis Island, & More!

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!

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New This Week (03/28/2025): Bob Trevino Likes It, The Penguin Lessons, & More!

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!

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Movie Review: Bob Trevino Likes It

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

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