By John Corrado Him, the new football-themed horror movie from producer Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, is a prime example of a film that has some theoretically interesting ideas, but ultimately fails because they are so poorly executed. The film follows a young football player named Cameron “Cam” Cade (Tyriq Withers), who is given the opportunity… Read More Blu-ray Review: Him (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Disney has just put out the first teaser trailer (and poster) for their upcoming live action remake of Moana. The studio continuing with the live action updates isn’t shocking, especially after the massive success of Lilo & Stitch earlier this year. But this one is arriving barely a decade after the animated… Read More First Teaser for Disney’s Live-Action Moana
By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 14th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: The Running Man (Wide Release): Edgar Wright’s latest film is an adaptation of the Stephen King novel, starring Glen Powell as a man being hunted on a deadly reality show in a dystopian future. As I wrote in my review, this… Read More New This Week (11/14/2025): The Running Man, Sentimental Value, Jay Kelly, & More!
By John Corrado The Jonas Brothers are back in A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, the Disney Plus Original that finds the boyband brothers trying to get back home for Christmas. The film opens with brothers Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas finishing up their tour in London just days before Christmas, and looking forward to getting… Read More Movie Review: A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (Disney+)
By John Corrado Do you know how hard it is to be yourself? That’s the quippy answer that George Clooney’s movie star character Jay Kelly, the titular protagonist of director Noah Baumbach’s latest film, gives when someone asks him what it feels like to be accused by critics of always playing himself. Of course, Clooney… Read More Movie Review: Jay Kelly
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just released the first teaser trailer (and a poster) for The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is arriving next summer exactly twenty years after the 2006 original. David Frankel returns to direct, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci all reprising their roles. This is… Read More Teaser Trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first teaser trailer (and a new poster) for Pixar’s Toy Story 5, the fifth film in the series that is set to arrive next summer. I’m guessing this teaser will play before Disney’s Zootopia 2 in a few weeks. Set to INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart,” this… Read More First Teaser Trailer for Pixar’s Toy Story 5!
By John Corrado All of Edgar Wright’s movies, known for their kinetic, genre-bending style, have a propulsive, forward momentum to them. This makes him a good fit for The Running Man, a new adaptation of the Stephen King story that was already made into a 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger picture, which basically offers a premise of… Read More Movie Review: The Running Man
By John Corrado Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is the third film in the magic heist franchise, arriving nearly a decade after the second instalment to complete the trilogy that began with 2013’s Now You See Me and its 2016 sequel. The fact that there is some hype for a third movie in… Read More Movie Review: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 7th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Predator: Badlands (Wide Release): This latest film in the Predator franchise also happens to be the first one to cast one of the Predators as the protagonist (and the first to be rated PG-13 instead of R). Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi stars as… Read More New This Week (11/07/2025): Predator: Badlands, Nuremberg, Christy, Die My Love, & More!
By John Corrado In Nuremberg, director James Vanderbilt dramatizes the Nuremberg trials, when members of the Nazi high command were arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity in the wake of World War II. The result is a rock solid old school historical drama that works surprisingly well on every level. Rami Malek… Read More Movie Review: Nuremberg
By John Corrado It’s funny that, in the decade since the blockbuster YA franchises that made them both movie stars wrapped up, the long-awaited big screen pairing of Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence and Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, is an arthouse movie. It speaks to the genuine credibility they have both built for themselves within the… Read More Movie Review: Die My Love
By John Corrado Director Dan Trachtenberg reinvigorated the decades old Predator franchise with his previous two entries; the 2022 prequel Prey, which was a 1700s-set Comanche survival thriller, and Predator: Killer of Killers, an animated anthology movie released earlier this year. Trachtenberg now switches things up one more time with Predator: Badlands, which is again… Read More Movie Review: Predator: Badlands
By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 31st, 2025. Happy Halloween! Theatrical Releases: Bugonia (Wide Release): This latest film from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos opened in limited release last week, and is now expanding. Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone and Aidan Delbis deliver a trio of compelling performances in this mix of conspiracy… Read More New This Week (10/31/2025): Bugonia, Urchin, Nouvelle Vague, & More!
By John Corrado As an actor, Harris Dickinson has already impressed us with his performances in Babygirl and Triangle of Sadness. So it’s fitting that, in his confident feature directorial debut Urchin, a stripped down drama about poverty and addiction, he gives another young performer the chance to take centre stage. That actor is Frank… Read More Movie Review: Urchin
By John Corrado NEON has just released a new trailer for Sentimental Value. This is Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s follow up to The Worst Person in the World, reuniting him with that film’s star Renate Reinsve. I saw this one during TIFF, and it’s easily one of the best movies of the year, if not… Read More New Trailer for Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value
By John Corrado Shelby Oaks is a horror movie that serves as the crowdfunded feature directorial debut of YouTuber and film critic Chris Stuckmann, now fully dipping his toes into the world of genre filmmaking. It’s easy to root for a film critic making the jump to actually directing (for me at least), and Stuckmann’s… Read More Movie Review: Shelby Oaks
By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 24th, 2025. Theatrical Releases: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (Wide Release): Jeremy Allen White stars as Bruce Springsteen, in this biopic that focuses specifically on the depression he experienced while recording his great 1982 album Nebraska from his bedroom in New Jersey. As a Springsteen… Read More New This Week (10/24/2025): Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Regretting You, Bugonia, It Was Just an Accident, Blue Moon, & More!
By John Corrado Bugonia is the latest film from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, who has been on a hot streak with recent Oscar heavyweights The Favorite and Poor Things, as well as last year’s anthology film Kinds of Kindness. The common denominator between these films is Emma Stone, who also appears in Lanthimos’ latest, playing… Read More Movie Review: Bugonia
By John Corrado Regretting You is an adaptation of the Colleen Hoover book, that comes to us from The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone. These two things should tell you what to expect from this film, which is a mix of dramatic weepie and teen romance. Morgan Grant (Allison Williams) and her husband… Read More Movie Review: Regretting You
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