By John Corrado Disney has just debuted a new poster and teaser trailer for Pixar’s Elio, which was initially supposed to be released in theatres this past March, before being pushed back until next year. This is the first new footage of the film since the original teaser trailer that was released back in 2023… Read More New Teaser Trailer for Pixar’s Elio
By John Corrado Michael Keaton returns to one of his most iconic roles in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a legacy sequel that finds director Tim Burton going back to the world of his 1988 film. The result is the filmmaker’s freest and most spirited work in some time, with a refreshing sense of playfulness and creativity to it.… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 15th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Red One (Wide Release): J.K. Simmons stars as a fit Santa Claus who gets kidnapped, and Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans are the two guys tasked with bringing him back, in this big budget Christmas action comedy from director Jake Kasdan… Read More New This Week (11/15/2024): Red One, Memoir of a Snail, & More!
By John Corrado In 2009, director Adam Elliot, the Australian animator behind the 2003 Oscar-winning short film Harvie Krumpet, released his debut feature Mary & Max. The excellent claymation film had a lovingly hand-crafted feel to it, and told the tender story of the pen-pal friendship between a girl and an autistic man, which Elliot explored with… Read More Movie Review: Memoir of a Snail
By John Corrado Paramount has just released the teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which is being pitched as the concluding chapter in the saga of Tom Cruise’s special agent Ethan Hunt. The film serves as a direct continuation of the 2022 film Dead Reckoning (which has since dropped “Part One” from… Read More Teaser Trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 8th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Wide Release): Directed by Dallas Jenkins (creator of The Chosen), this adaptation of Barbara Robinson’s 1972 children’s book is a wonderful and meaningful family movie about the true meaning of Christmas. The story follows a group… Read More New This Week (11/08/2024): The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, A Real Pain, & More!
By John Corrado In A Real Pain, his sophomore feature as writer and director, actor Jesse Eisenberg crafts a sensitive, richly textured character study of two cousins reuniting for a Holocaust tour in Poland. This unlikely premise paves the way for a dramedy that takes the bones of a mismatched buddy comedy, as Eisenberg graciously shares… Read More Movie Review: A Real Pain
By John Corrado The latest “event movie” from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, Trap is basically pitched as a thriller set at a pop concert with a serial killer trying to escape the auditorium, and it delivers on this conceit. Josh Hartnett stars in the film as Cooper Abbott, a working class dad taking his daughter… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Trap
By John Corrado Distributor NEON has just released the first trailer for The End, aka the narrative feature debut of documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence). The film is an ambitious apocalyptic character drama set in an underground bunker at the end of the world, that also happens to… Read More Trailer for Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End
By John Corrado Adapted from the 1972 children’s novel by Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever tells the story of a town’s Christmas pageant that gets upended when the local outcast kids audition for roles. In the hands of director Dallas Jenkins (creator of the Bible-based TV series The Chosen), Robinson’s book is turned into a charming… Read More Movie Review: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 1st, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Here (Wide Release): This latest from director Robert Zemeckis serves as a Forrest Gump reunion with stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright and screenwriter Eric Roth. Adapted from a graphic novel, Here is an ambitious drama that all unfolds in the… Read More New This Week (11/01/2024): Here, Emilia Pérez, & More!
By John Corrado Thirty years after Forrest Gump, director Robert Zemeckis reunites with stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as well as screenwriter Eric Roth for the ambitious drama Here. An adaptation of the 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire, Here is built around the conceit of watching life unfold in a single location across millions of years, from… Read More Movie Review: Here
By John Corrado The first trailer has just been released for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, which A24 acquired out of Venice. The film is an adaption of the William S. Burroughs novel of the same name, and stars Daniel Craig in the leading role as a gay man roaming about Mexico after the war. I wasn’t… Read More Trailer Released for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer
By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 25th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Anora (Limited Release): This latest from Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket) follows Ani (Mikey Madison), a stripper from Brooklyn who falls for Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a Russian billionaire. Baker was awarded the Palme d’Or for… Read More New This Week (10/25/2024): Anora, Conclave, & More!
By John Corrado Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band is the latest Springsteen documentary from director Thom Zimny, and it’s an electrifying mix of concert doc and intimate snapshot of The Boss on tour. Where as Zimny’s recent portraits Western Stars and Letter to You focused on those specific albums, Road Diary expands its scope to his current world… Read More Movie Review: Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (Disney+)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Twisters. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my theatrical review right here. Twisters, the legacy sequel to the 1996 blockbuster Twister, is getting a physical media release this week, following its run in theatres over… Read More Blu-ray Review: Twisters (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado A24 has released the first trailer for The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour post-war epic shot on VistaVision that first drew raves at Venice. I saw the film at TIFF, presented in 70mm, and it’s a staggering achievement. This is a great first trailer that gives viewers a glimpse at Lol Crowley’s… Read More First Trailer for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist
By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 18th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Smile 2 (Wide Release): This follow up to the 2022 box office hit Smile is a classically “bigger” horror sequel that finds writer-director Parker Finn building on the first one to deliver a piece of satisfying pop entertainment. This one branches… Read More New This Week (10/18/2024): Smile 2, We Live in Time, The Shadow Strays, & More!
By John Corrado The film Goodrich opens with protagonist Andy Goodrich (Michael Keaton) being awoken by a phone call from his younger wife Naomi (Laura Benanti), who tells him that she has just checked herself into a rehab facility for the next ninety days. Unbeknownst to Andy, Naomi was dealing with a prescription pill addiction,… Read More Movie Review: Goodrich
By John Corrado The 2022 horror movie Smile rode the wave of a concept ready-made for viral marketing campaigns to become a hit at the box office. Add in the fact that the film’s premise basically allowed for near-endless follow-ups, and a sequel was an inevitable case of not if, but when. Writer-director Parker Finn (who expanded… Read More Movie Review: Smile 2
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