By John Corrado Sometimes a basic premise is all you need to sell a movie. Such is the case with Whalefall, which follows a young diver who gets swallowed by a whale, and has to survive inside of the creature as his oxygen runs out. But it’s what director Brian Duffield (No One Will Save… Read More Movie Review: Whalefall
By John Corrado The Dog Stars is the latest film from director Ridley Scott, a legendary filmmaker now in his late eighties who has earned his stripes with a number of classics over the decades, but whose output has been decidedly more hit or miss in recent years. This post-apocalyptic drama, which is adapted from… Read More Movie Review: The Dog Stars
By John Corrado It’s somehow been twenty years since the release of The Devil Wears Prada in 2006, which netted Meryl Streep one of her many Oscar nominations for her ice queen performance as Miranda Priestly, the Anna Wintour-inspired editor of a New York fashion magazine. Now we have a sequel, The Devil Wears Prada… Read More Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just released our first trailer (and poster) for The Dog Stars, the latest film from director Ridley Scott (following his sequel Gladiator II). This one is adapted from a book by Peter Heller, and is a post-apocalyptic survival story starring Jacob Elordi, Guy Pearce, Margaret Qualley and Allison… Read More First Trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars
By John Corrado Elements of time travel and crime thriller collide in Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, an enjoyable action comedy that unfolds with a sort of clever-dumb logic that requires us to just roll with it. The plot, which unfolds across one night, is filled with twists and double-crossings. The titular players… Read More Movie Review: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (Disney+)
By John Corrado What would you do if you found yourself stranded on a desert island with your asshole boss? Now imagine that boss, who has constantly belittled you as an employee, has no survival skills, and now you hold all the power? That’s the basic premise behind Send Help, the new film from director… Read More Movie Review: Send Help
By John Corrado James Cameron returns to the world of Avatar in Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in his sci-fi saga that began all the way back in 2009. And this latest instalment essentially delivers more of what fans of the first two want, with Cameron giving us another immersive, visually dazzling trip… Read More Movie Review: Avatar: Fire and Ash
By John Corrado Aside from his role as co-creator and producer of The Simpsons, which is certainly enough of a legacy on its own, James L. Brooks is also best known for writing and directing a trio of beloved, all-timer romantic dramedies with Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good As It Gets. Brooks… Read More Movie Review: Ella McCay
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 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 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 We now have a new trailer (and poster) for Avatar: Fire and Ash, the upcoming third film in James Cameron’s Pandora-set trilogy. This fresh look arrives before the re-release of 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water on October 3rd. It reveals a bit more of the plot and shows us some new… Read More New Trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash
By John Corrado Swiped is director Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s glossy biopic of Whitney Wolfe (played by Lily James), a co-founder of ubiquitous dating app Tinder and the creator of Bumble. We first meet Wolfe at a Los Angeles meet-up for tech investors, trying to get financial backers for an app that connects orphanages in other… Read More Movie Review: Swiped (Disney+)
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just put out the first trailer and poster for Swiped. Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Unpregnant) directs this based-on-a-true-story film, which stars Lily James in the role of Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of online dating apps Tinder and Bumble. Lofty comparisons to The Social Network might be unavoidable. Otherwise, this… Read More First Trailer for Swiped, premiering at TIFF
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just put out the first trailer and poster for Ella McCay. This is the new dramedy from writer-director James L. Brooks, his first since How Do You Know in 2009. I’m obviously a big fan of Brooks’ classics like Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good As… Read More First Trailer for James L. Brooks’ Ella McCay
By John Corrado The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash has now been released online, after premiering in theatres in front of The Fantastic Four: First Steps over the weekend. I got to preview the trailer in IMAX before the Fantastic Four press screening last week (I posted my thoughts on X/Twitter). To reiterate,… Read More Trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash
By John Corrado The first trailer has just been released for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. This is, of course, the Bruce Springsteen biopic (kind of unmistakable now that they added his name to the title), starring Jeremy Allen White as the iconic musician. It’s directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart). We get a glimpse… Read More First Trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
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 When the Planet of the Apes series was revived in 2011 with the pleasantly surprising Rise of the Planet of the Apes, it led to one of the best modern blockbuster trilogies with the two Matt Reeves-directed follow-ups Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the… Read More Movie Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
By John Corrado A young nun begins to discover ominous things are afoot after arriving in Italy. This is the basic plot of the indie horror film Immaculate released two weeks ago. But it’s also the setup for director Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen. Stevenson’s film serves as a surprisingly solid prequel to The Omen,… Read More Movie Review: The First Omen