By John Corrado New releases for the week of May 2nd, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Thunderbolts* (Wide Release): This latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe finds a group of misfits being assembled to save the world in the absence of the Avengers. The team includes Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian… Read More New This Week (05/02/2025): Thunderbolts*, & 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!
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 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 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 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 New releases for the week of March 21st, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Disney’s Snow White (Wide Release): Disney’s latest live-action remake is an updated version of their first animated feature from 1937. Rachel Zegler stars as Princess Snow White, and Gal Gadot is the Evil Queen jealous of her looks. Like a lot… Read More New This Week (03/21/2025): Disney’s Snow White, Magazine Dreams, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of March 14th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Black Bag (Wide Release): Steven Soderbergh’s latest is a sexy spy thriller that is less action film and more marital drama. Michael Fassbender stars as a secret agent whose wife (Cate Blanchett) is suspected of being a double agent, drawing two… Read More New This Week (03/14/2025): Black Bag, Can I Get a Witness?, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of March 7th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Mickey 17 (Wide Release): Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited followup to his Oscar-winning Parasite is finally arriving in theatres after many delays. Robert Pattinson stars as a man who signs up to be an expendable on a space mission, where clones of himself… Read More New This Week (03/07/2025): Mickey 17, Seven Veils, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of February 28th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Last Breath (Wide Release): Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu star in this survival thriller about a group of deep sea divers trying to rescue a trapped crewmate. It’s directed by Alex Parkinson, who is dramatizing his 2018 documentary of the same… Read More New This Week (02/28/2025): Last Breath, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of February 21st, 2025. Theatrical Releases: The Monkey (Wide Release): Director Osgood Perkins follows up his surprise hit Longlegs with this horror comedy. Adapted from a Stephen King short story, Perkins’ latest is about a cursed toy monkey that causes people to die in creatively gruesome ways,… Read More New This Week (02/21/2025): The Monkey, Win or Lose, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of February 14th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Captain America: Brave New World (Wide Release): The biggest new release this week is this latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which functions as the big screen debut of Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson as Captain America. It’s a decent enough… Read More New This Week (02/14/2025): Captain America: Brave New World, Paddington in Peru, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of February 7th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Universal Language (Limited Release): This sophomore feature from Canadian director Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century) was Canada’s selection for Best International Film at the Oscars. It’s a wonderful absurdist dramedy that is set in an alternate universe version of Winnipeg, where… Read More New This Week (02/07/2025): Universal Language, Love Hurts, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 31st, 2025. Theatrical Releases: I’m Still Here (Limited Release): This surprise Best Picture nominee is based on the life of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose husband was abducted by the government during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries),… Read More New This Week (01/31/2025): I’m Still Here, Dog Man, Companion, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 24th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Flight Risk (Wide Release): Mel Gibson’s latest directorial effort is also his most constrained and straight-forward film yet, following elaborate, historical productions Hacksaw Ridge, Apocalypto, The Passion of the Christ and Braveheart. This is a stripped down thriller that follows a… Read More New This Week (01/24/2025): Flight Risk, Hard Truths, Presence, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 17th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Wolf Man (Wide Release): Director Leigh Whannell, who previously made The Invisible Man, now returns with another Universal Horror reimagining. This one stars Christopher Abbott as the man undergoing the transformation, and Julia Garner as his wife. I admired The Invisible… Read More New This Week (01/17/2025): Wolf Man, The Last Showgirl, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 10th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Nickel Boys (Limited Release): In bringing Colson Whitehead’s novel to the screen, director RaMell Ross takes a radically new approach to adapting a book, presenting the entire film from the perspective of his characters through POV camerawork. It’s a unique technique… Read More New This Week (01/10/2025): Nickel Boys, The Room Next Door, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of January 3rd, 2025. Happy New Year, everyone! Theatrical Releases: Vermiglio (Limited Release): Director Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio is Italy’s International Feature submission for the Oscars. The film is set at the end of World War II, but the war is happening entirely offscreen. Instead, this is a… Read More New This Week (01/03/2025): Vermiglio, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of December 25th, 2024. Merry Christmas, everybody! Theatrical Releases: The Brutalist (Limited Release): Director Brady Corbet’s Vistavision epic is now arriving in theatres, after gaining buzz throughout its festival run. I’ve been singing the praises of this one since I saw it at TIFF. Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour film… Read More New This Week (12/25/2024): The Brutalist, Better Man, Babygirl, Nosferatu, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of December 20th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Mufasa: The Lion King (Wide Release): This good enough prequel to Disney’s 2019 “live action” remake of their animated classic The Lion King comes to us from director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk). The story centres around Simba and Nala’s daughter Kiara… Read More New This Week (12/20/2024): Mufasa: The Lion King, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, & More!
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