By John Corrado Following the poster debut yesterday, A24 has just released the first trailer for writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists. This is Song’s highly anticipated second feature following her acclaimed, Oscar-nominated 2023 debut Past Lives. This one is a romantic comedy starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal. Johnson plays a New York matchmaker,… Read More First Trailer for Celine Song’s Materialists
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 Director Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness? is set in a futuristic version of Canada, where the progressive government has mandated that everybody “voluntarily” gives up their life at the age of fifty for the sake of the planet. It’s a chilling premise that makes for a mostly engaging if… Read More Movie Review: Can I Get a Witness?
By John Corrado Apple Original Films and Warner Bros. have just released the full trailer for director Joseph Kosinski’s Formula One movie F1, which will be given a theatrical release on June 27th. Kosinski, of course, is the director behind Top Gun: Maverick, and this is his first film since that box office smash. The… Read More Full Trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s F1
By John Corrado Distributor NEON has just released the first teaser trailer for director Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck, which they acquired following last year’s TIFF, where it won the festival’s coveted People’s Choice Award. Tom Hiddleston stars as the titular Chuck, alongside a host of others. Like the poster that was released a… Read More First Teaser Trailer for The Life of Chuck
By John Corrado Disney has just released the full trailer for the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. This is our first full look at the film, which is coming to theatres on May 23rd. The original 2002 animated film is a fan favourite, and already pretty perfect as it is, so this remake has… Read More Trailer for Disney’s Live-Action Lilo & Stitch
By John Corrado Black Bag is the new sexy spy thriller from director Steven Soderbergh, with an ensemble cast of characters dealing with the prospect of a double agent in their midst while navigating their own personal relationships. Michael Fassbender stars as George Woodhouse, an English spy married to fellow agent Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). In… Read More Movie Review: Black Bag
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 The latest Toronto-set psychodrama from Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, Seven Veils reimagines the opera Salome through the lens of trauma and the #MeToo movement. It’s also perhaps The Sweet Hereafter filmmaker’s strongest late-career effort. Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) is a young theatre director who is hired by the Canadian Opera Company to remount the… Read More Movie Review: Seven Veils
By John Corrado The 97th Academy Awards were presented tonight, with Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anora emerging as the big winner. Baker’s film took home a total of five Oscars, including Best Actress for Mikey Madison, with Baker himself winning the awards for Screenplay, Editing, Director and Picture. This makes him the first person to… Read More Winners of the 97th Academy Awards
By John Corrado It’s Oscar weekend, which means that it’s time for my final predictions. Some of these are off the cuff choices, while others are more thought out based on precursors and my own analysis. As always, I’ve provided commentary on some of the categories, and my own personal choices if I had a… Read More My 2025 Oscar Predictions
By John Corrado Director Alex Parkinson dramatizes his own 2019 documentary of the same name in Last Breath, a decent survival thriller following a group of deep sea divers rescuing a trapped crew mate. The first act is all about introducing the characters, a group of saturation divers repairing a stretch of pipeline deep below… Read More Movie Review: Last Breath
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 Fresh off the surprise success of serial killer thriller Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins now returns with a different kind of horror movie in The Monkey. This time it’s a horror comedy, adapted from a Stephen King short story of the same name. Re-teaming with Longlegs distributor NEON, Perkins’ latest finds him playing… Read More Movie Review: The Monkey
By John Corrado In their thirty years of feature films, Pixar Animation Studios has been known for their innovative and imaginative storytelling. Now they’ve adapted that to a serialized format in Win or Lose, the new Disney Plus streaming series from co-creators, co-directors and co-writers Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates. It’s an ambitious gambit from… Read More Review: Win or Lose – Episodes 1-4 (Disney+)
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 Captain America: Brave New World is the fourth Captain America film, serving as the big screen debut of Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) donning the red, white and blue vibranium shield that got passed to him by Chris Evans’ now-retired version of the character. In that way, this 35th film in the Marvel… Read More Movie Review: Captain America: Brave New World
By John Corrado The winners of the 16th Dorian Film Awards were announced this morning, voted on by the members of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance was triumphant in the top category, winning Film of the Year, along with Demi Moore winning for Performance of the Year, and Fargeat… Read More Winners of the 16th Dorian Film Awards
By John Corrado Universal Pictures has released the full trailer for their upcoming live-action remake of DreamWorks’ excellent 2010 animated film How to Train Your Dragon. Disney has long been in the business of doing these reimaginings of their animated classics, so I guess it’s not surprising that DreamWorks Animation is now attempting a live-action… Read More Full Trailer for Live-Action Remake of How to Train Your Dragon
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