By John Corrado Named for the most well known song from the second half of the Broadway musical, Wicked: For Good is the grand finale of director Jon M. Chu’s two-part film adaptation, and it delivers on the dramatic promise of the story. If it’s maybe not quite as good as the first movie, which… Read More Movie Review: Wicked: For Good
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
By John Corrado Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska is and was not like other Springsteen albums. Stripped down, acoustic, recorded in a bedroom on a 4-track tape recorder, it was a collection of ten deeply personal songs that had him baring his soul in a poetic, sometimes cryptic way. It’s fitting, then, that director Scott… Read More Movie Review: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
By John Corrado Kiss of the Spider Woman, the new musical film from Dreamgirls director Bill Condon, is a big screen reimagining of the 1992 stage musical from John Kander and Fred Ebb, that was in turn based on a 1976 novel that had a 1985 film adaptation. Set during Argentina’s military dictatorship in 1983, the… Read More Movie Review: Kiss of the Spider Woman
By John Corrado The opening shot of writer-director Mary Bronstein’s intense and suffocating but occasionally darkly funny If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a tight closeup on lead actress Rose Byrne’s face. She is in a doctor’s appointment for her sick daughter (Delaney Quinn), with some disagreement about her treatment plan. The doctor… Read More Movie Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
By John Corrado The main appeal of Good Fortune, the long-awaited feature directorial debut of comic actor Aziz Ansari, is getting to see Keanu Reeves play an angel. This is not to in any way diminish the performances of Ansari himself as a down-on-his-luck gig economy worker, or his co-star Seth Rogen as a rich… Read More Movie Review: Good Fortune
By John Corrado Director Zach Cregger’s Weapons became one of the biggest breakout hits of the year when it was released over the summer, and the film is now available on physical media including 4K Ultra HD. The film centres around a young teacher (played by Julia Garner) who has all but one of the… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Weapons
By John Corrado One of the summer’s best blockbusters, F1: The Movie is now available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. Brad Pitt stars in the film as Sonny Hayes, an aging race car driver brought on to mentor young hotshot Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). I had a great time with this one when… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: F1: The Movie
By John Corrado Nobody 2, the sequel to the 2021 Bob Odenkirk action movie, is now available on physical media following its end of summer run in theatres this past August. This sequel transplants the action to an old school water park, where Odenkirk’s Hutch is taking his family on vacation, but ends up in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Nobody 2 (Collector’s Edition)
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