By John Corrado In her confident feature directorial debut Good One, emerging filmmaker India Donaldson uses the premise of a father-daughter camping trip to offer an engaging, fascinatingly stripped down character study. The protagonist is Sam (Lily Collias), a 17-year-old girl who ends up on a weekend camping trip to the Catskills with her dad… Read More Movie Review: Good One
By John Corrado The seventh instalment in the Alien franchise that began in 1979, Alien: Romulus is a spinoff sequel that is set somewhere between the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 followup Aliens. Directed by Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe, the Evil Dead remake), Romulus shares a lot of DNA with Scott’s… Read More Movie Review: Alien: Romulus
By John Corrado The fifth film in Australian filmmaker George Miller’s operatic action anthology, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a prequel to his Oscar-winning 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, that finds him returning to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the decades-old series. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger version of Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
By John Corrado The group GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the winners of their 16th annual TV awards. Leading the pack is Hacks with four wins including Best TV Comedy, followed by Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, which racked up three wins including Best TV Drama. In third place is… Read More Winners of the 2024 Dorian TV Awards from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
By John Corrado Disney’s biannual convention D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event is currently taking place in Anaheim, California, where the Mouse House has unveiled new looks at a variety of their upcoming projects. This includes the first trailer for Disney’s Snow White, new trailers for Mufasa: The Lion King and Moana 2, as well as… Read More New Trailers Released for Disney’s Snow White, Mufasa: The Lion King, Moana 2, & Win or Lose
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 9th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Borderlands (Wide Release): Eli Roth takes a stab at trying to bring the video game Borderlands to the big screen, and the result is kind of a mess. This is an uninspired sci-fi adventure, that feels slapped together from a variety… Read More New This Week (08/09/2024): Borderlands, Cuckoo, & More!
By John Corrado The sophomore effort from German writer-director Tilman Singer, Cuckoo is an intentionally bizarre horror movie that draws upon the metaphorical symbolism of the titular cuckoo bird to reimagine genre tropes through Singer’s more unique vision. Our heroine is Gretchen (Hunter Schafer), a 17-year-old girl who travels to Germany with her father (Marton… Read More Movie Review: Cuckoo
By John Corrado Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for director Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night (formerly titled SNL 1975), a dramatization of the frantic ninety minutes leading up to the first ever live broadcast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live on October 11th, 1975. Co-written by Reitman and Gil Kenan (his writing partner on Ghostbusters:… Read More Trailer Released for Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night
By John Corrado Eli Roth, the actor turned filmmaker who is mostly known for his bloody slasher movies, now takes a stab at directing a video game adaptation with Borderlands. But, in bringing the titular franchise to the screen, Roth struggles mightily to overcome the curse of most video game adaptations. The result is a… Read More Movie Review: Borderlands
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 2nd, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Trap (Wide Release): M. Night Shyamalan returns with this serial killer thriller set a pop concert, starring Josh Hartnett (and the director’s own daughter Saleka Shyamalan as the pop singer). It wasn’t screened for critics, but I’ll be seeing it next… Read More New This Week (08/02/2024): Trap, Sing Sing, & More!
By John Corrado The title of Sing Sing refers to the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, located on the Hudson River. But the film’s title, with its evocation of music and singing, also serves as a jubilant nod to the spirited performances being staged by the men within the maximum security prison. It’s… Read More Movie Review: Sing Sing
By John Corrado Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy, Fifty Shades of Grey), Back to Black is a biopic of British singer Amy Winehouse, who passed away at age 27 from alcohol poisoning. The film is named after her (still incredible) Grammy-winning 2006 album Back to Black, which catapulted her from working-class Camden girl to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Back to Black (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. After a successful run in theatres, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has now released Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire on physical media, including Blu-ray.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
By John Corrado New releases for the week of July 26th, 2024. Theatrical Releases: Deadpool & Wolverine (Wide Release): Marvel’s highly anticipated team-up between Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) has finally arrived. I saw it at a press screening earlier in the week, and it’s a lot of fun. As I wrote, it… Read More New This Week (07/26/2024): Deadpool & Wolverine, Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, & More!
By John Corrado Netflix has released the first trailer (and poster) for His Three Daughters, which actually premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where the streamer picked it up. This happened to be the last movie I saw at TIFF last year, and it’s a solid, dialogue-driven chamber piece centred around the death… Read More Trailer Released for Netflix’s His Three Daughters
By John Corrado Fashioned as a love letter to Hollywood stunt doubles, The Fall Guy is a mildly entertaining but ultimately uneven romantic action comedy from director David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Bullet Train). Ryan Gosling stars in the film as Colt Seavers, who is the main stunt double for Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), an arrogant… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Fall Guy
By John Corrado In a surprise move, Searchlight Pictures has just released the first trailer for their upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as the iconic folk singer. The studio has also dated the film (which recently wrapped shooting) for release in the thick of awards season in December. Directed by… Read More First Trailer Released for A Complete Unknown
By John Corrado There is a lot riding on Deadpool & Wolverine, the latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film not only serves as the third movie in the Deadpool franchise, but also officially brings the potty-mouthed Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) into the fold of the MCU, following Disney’s acquisition of studio 20th… Read More Movie Review: Deadpool & Wolverine
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the new trailer for their upcoming sequel Joker: Folie À Deux, which of course sees Joaquin Phoenix returning to his Oscar-winning role of Arthur Fleck, the failed comedian turned crown prince of crime. Phoenix is joined this time around by Lady Gaga, who takes on the role… Read More New Trailer Released for Joker: Folie À Deux
By John Corrado In 1996, audiences were taken into the world of “storm chasers” in the summer blockbuster Twister, a film that used the dramatic effects of severe weather to drum up excitement, while grounding itself in the relationships between a group of characters. Since legacy sequels are all the rage these days, we now… Read More Movie Review: Twisters
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