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 Netflix has just released the official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankentstein, the director’s long-gestating passion project bringing Mary Shelley’s original novel to the screen. I was lucky enough to see this one at TIFF, and came away impressed (you can read my full review from the festival right here). The production… Read More Official Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankentstein
By John Corrado Netflix has just put out the official trailer for Jay Kelly. This is Noah Baumbach’s latest film, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler. It premiered at Venice and Telluride, and is about to play at NYFF. I’m still pretty crushed this one didn’t play TIFF. Clooney stars as the titular Jay Kelly,… Read More Official Trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly
By John Corrado Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, the director’s long-awaited adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel, begins in the icy Arctic. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) is being hunted by the monster of his own creation (played by Jacob Elordi), taking refuge on a Viking ship. In telling the combined stories of the mad scientist, and… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Frankenstein (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado Despite being the latest case for Daniel Craig’s Southern detective Benoit Blanc, director Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out whodunnit Wake Up Dead Man actually shifts the focus to a young priest played by Josh O’Connor. It’s a bit of a reset that works for the Netflix franchise. In fact, Blanc is mostly… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado Ballad of a Small Player is the latest film from German director Edward Berger, who broke out in a big way and became an Oscar heavyweight with his past two films Conclave and All Quiet on the Western Front. Berger’s latest, a Macau-set gambling film, can’t live up to his previous two.… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Ballad of a Small Player (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado Netflix has just put out the first trailer for Ballad of a Small Player, the latest film from German director Edward Berger. Berger’s last two films were, of course, the Oscar heavyweights Conclave and All Quiet on the Western Front, so expectations are naturally high for this one. Colin Farrell stars as… Read More Trailer for Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player
By John Corrado Netflix has just put out the first teaser trailer for their upcoming film Jay Kelly. This is the new movie from filmmaker Noah Baumbach, his first since the divisive, big budget White Noise in 2022. This one is poised to follow the path of Marriage Story in 2019, and put him squarely… Read More Teaser Trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly
By John Corrado The British inventor and his pantomime dog return in Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the second feature-length outing for the characters following 2005’s Oscar-winning The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Co-directed by series creator Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, this charming and funny new adventure for the stop-motion man and dog… Read More Movie Review: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
By John Corrado Eddie Murphy returns to one of his most iconic characters in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. The Netflix-backed legacy sequel finds the comic actor reprising his role as Axel Foley, the Detroit cop with his own way of doing things who ends up transplanted to Beverly Hills. Arriving forty years after the… Read More Movie Review: Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (Netflix)
By John Corrado Irish Wish, the new Lindsay Lohan romantic comedy that is being released on Netflix for St. Patrick’s Day, is an example of a film that offers exactly what you want; the chance to watch Lohan in a predictable but cute rom-com set against the beautiful backdrop of Ireland. Lohan stars as Maddie… Read More Movie Review: Irish Wish (Netflix)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Following his 2018 directorial debut A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper now turns his attention to the life of New York composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in the biopic Maestro, casting himself in the leading role. The film spans decades in the life of Bernstein from the 1940s… Read More Review: Maestro
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The title of director Todd Haynes’s new elevated melodrama May December refers to the extreme age gap between Gracie Atherton (Julianne Moore) and her husband Joe Yoo (Charles Melton). Their relationship began when he was twelve and she was 36, and sent her to jail for years amid a flurry… Read More Review: May December
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Following his Old Hollywood passion project Mank, director David Fincher returns to the thriller genre with The Killer, a slickly crafted adaptation of Alexis Nolent’s French graphic novel exploring the daily grind of a professional assassin. Fincher’s film opens with its unnamed titular assassin (played by Michael Fassbender) staying… Read More Review: The Killer
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The latest film from director George C. Wolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Rustin is a solid Netflix biopic of gay civil right’s leader Bayard Rustin, that… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Rustin (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The solo debut of Chris Williams (who co-directed Bolt, Big Hero 6 and Moana for Disney), the Oscar-nominated The Sea Beast is a pretty good animated adventure movie from Netflix that imagines a world where pirates sail the high seas, killing sea monsters at the behest of the… Read More Review: The Sea Beast
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Director Edward Berger’s Oscar-nominated All Quiet on the Western Front is a new adaptation of German novelist Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I classic, which was most famously turned into an Oscar-winning 1930 film. Whether you categorize it as a remake of that previous Best Picture winner or… Read More Review: All Quiet on the Western Front
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest film from writer-director Christopher Landon, who gave us clever horror comedy riffs with Freaky and the Happy Death Day movies, We Have a Ghost mainly serves as the filmmaker’s homage to the Amblin films of the 1980s. The story of a family who discovers a ghost… Read More Review: We Have a Ghost (Netflix)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The directorial debut of screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, who cut her teeth in the romantic comedy genre writing films like 27 Dresses and The Devil Wears Prada, Your Place or Mine is a Netflix rom-com ready made for Valentine’s Day that delivers exactly what you expect from both… Read More Review: Your Place or Mine (Netflix)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy star as a Jewish man and his future father-in-law in You People, a new Netflix romantic comedy from director Kenya Barris. Co-written by Barris and Hill, the film is first and foremost a cringe comedy about the racial divide in current America that… Read More Review: You People (Netflix)
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