By John Corrado Elio, the very sweet new animated film from Pixar, uses the age old question of “are we alone in the universe?” to explore the very real topic of loneliness, namely that of the titular Elio (voiced by Yonas Kibreab). Elio is a space-obsessed kid who has been left living on a military… Read More Movie Review: Elio
By John Corrado Paramount has just put out the full-length trailer for The Naked Gun. This is director Akiva Schaffer’s reboot of the classic Leslie Nielsen police spoofs, starring Liam Neeson as the son of Nielsen’s Frank Drebin. Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser are also in the cast. There are a number of solid… Read More Official Trailer for The Naked Gun
By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 13th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: The Life of Chuck (Wide Release): The People’s Choice Award winner from last year’s TIFF is finally opening in theatres today, and it’s something special. Director Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation unfolds through three distinct chapters presented in reverse, with… Read More New This Week (06/13/2025): The Life of Chuck, Materialists, How to Train Your Dragon, & More!
By John Corrado The animated documentary Endless Cookie, which won the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs, offers a quirky portrait of half-brothers Seth and Pete Scriver. Seth is a white animator living in Toronto, using a government grant to make a film about his Indigenous half-brother Pete, who lives in… Read More Movie Review: Endless Cookie
By John Corrado Not to be outdone by Disney, who have made a business out of releasing live-action remakes of their beloved animated films, DreamWorks and Universal now get in on the (live) action with How to Train Your Dragon. The studio’s first live-action update of a DreamWorks Animation film, Dragon is mostly a beat-for-beat… Read More Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon
By John Corrado A24 has just released the official trailer for Eddington, the latest film from Ari Aster. Joaquin Phoenix stars in the “modern Western” as a local sheriff, running for mayor of the titular Texas town against the incumbent (played by Pedro Pascal). It’s also set during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the summer of… Read More Official Trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington
By John Corrado In Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song delivered one of the greatest directorial debuts of all time, reinvigorating a love triangle premise to offer a deeply moving exploration of longing and potentially meeting the right person at the wrong time. Expectations have been set incredibly high for Song’s sophomore feature Materialists, which finds… Read More Movie Review: Materialists
By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 6th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (Wide Release): This John Wick spinoff, set between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4, sees Ana de Armas taking centre stage as a ballerina and assassin.… Read More New This Week (06/06/2025): From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, The Phoenician Scheme, & More!
By John Corrado The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson’s twelfth feature film, and by this point, you either vibe with his style or you don’t. Anderson’s latest is another immaculately designed work that doesn’t find him straying from his signature style, but rather doubling down on it; the panning camera moves, the intricate, dollhouse-like sets,… Read More Movie Review: The Phoenician Scheme
By John Corrado Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, we get Dangerous Animals, a clever, entertaining spin on killer shark movies from director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones). In Byrne’s film, the sharks aren’t the real villains, and the main threat is actually a different type of predator;… Read More Movie Review: Dangerous Animals
By John Corrado The real life exorcism of Emma Schmidt is said to be the most well documented case of an exorcism and demonic possession in North America. Which is why it’s so disappointing that The Ritual, director David Midell’s dramatized version of these events from nearly a hundred years ago, is so poorly handled.… Read More Movie Review: The Ritual
By John Corrado Universal Pictures has just unveiled the first trailer for Wicked: For Good, the highly anticipated followup to last year’s Wicked: Part One. The first film was obviously a box office sensation and an awards juggernaut, and this trailer indicates that director Jon M. Chu has nailed Part Two as well. This is… Read More First Trailer Released for Wicked: For Good
By John Corrado Set between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4, Ballerina (full title From the World of John Wick: Ballerina) is the first spinoff film in the action franchise. The film is directed by Len Wiseman, taking over the mantle from original series director Chad Stahelski, who… Read More Movie Review: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 30th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Karate Kid: Legends (Wide Release): This latest reboot in the Karate Kid franchise brings together elements from the original films, the 2010 remake, and the Netflix series Cobra Kai. The film stars Ralph Macchio, Jackie Chan and Ben Wang in a… Read More New This Week (05/30/2025): Karate Kid: Legends, Bring Her Back, & More!
By John Corrado Two Women, the latest film from Quebec director Chloé Robichaud (Sarah Prefers to Run), is a raunchy, female-centric comedy that serves as a modern remake of Claude Fournier’s 1970 film Two Women in Gold. Fournier’s original remains an influential piece of Quebec cinema, and Robichaud’s version, which has been adapted and updated… Read More Movie Review: Two Women
By John Corrado Bring Her Back is the unnerving sophomore feature from Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, who began their career as YouTubers (under the pseudonym RackaRacka), before branching out and getting noticed with their A24-backed directorial debut Talk to Me. The same studio, A24, is behind their latest effort as well, which finds… Read More Movie Review: Bring Her Back
By John Corrado A recently widowed mother stuck in a farmhouse with her two kids notices a mysterious woman sitting in her yard. At first the woman, who is covered by a black veil, is at a distance, but her chair keeps moving closer to the house. Who is she? Where did she come from?… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Woman in the Yard (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, the director’s fun, sexy spy movie, is now arriving on Blu-ray following a run in theatres earlier this year. I reviewed the film during its theatrical run, so you can read my full thoughts on it here. But Soderbergh’s latest is a highly enjoyable little mix of espionage… Read More Blu-ray Review: Black Bag (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado The 35th edition of the Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival launches today, with both in-person screenings at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto, and Ontario-wide virtual screenings as well. Tonight’s Opening Night Gala is the Canadian premiere of writer-director Elena Oxman’s drama Outerlands (May 23rd, 7:00pm), starring Asia Kate Dillon. The festival’s Closing… Read More The 2025 Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival Runs from May 23rd to June 1st
By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 23rd, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Lilo & Stitch (Wide Release): Disney’s modern redo of their fan favourite 2002 animated film about a girl and her alien is one of the studio’s best live-action remakes. It mainly works because CGI Stitch is adorable, and the child actress… Read More New This Week (05/23/2025): Lilo & Stitch, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, & More!
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