By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5th to 15th, more information can be found right here. Former music video director Joseph Kahn follows up his raucous 2017 battle rap satire Bodied with Ick; a sci-fi horror comedy that serves as homage to stereotypical early-2000s high school movies, starring Brandon… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Ick (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Directed by Dito Montiel, Riff Raff is an enjoyable dark comedy that mostly just lets its all-star comic cast (including the likes of Jennifer Coolidge, Bill Murray, and Pete Davidson)… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Riff Raff (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The feature directorial debut of writer-director Andrew DeYoung, Friendship is a cringe comedy about adult male friendship that fully leans into the absurd. Tim Robinson stars in the film as… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Friendship (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In his latest film Saturday Night, director Jason Reitman uses a massive and spot-on ensemble cast to meticulously recreate the frantic ninety minutes leading up to the first taping of… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Saturday Night (Special Presentations)
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 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 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 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 This week, Paramount is releasing the R-rated 1999 animated musical comedy South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut for the first time on 4K Ultra HD, in honour of the film’s 25th anniversary. Directed by Trey Parker and co-written by Matt Stone, the film finds the South Park boys getting corrupted after going… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
By John Corrado Writer-director Josh Margolin’s Thelma is being pitched as a senior citizen’s action comedy. But the indie character dramedy really functions as a wonderful leading showcase for elderly actress June Squibb, whose star has really risen over the past decade as a scene-stealing supporting player. Squibb stars as the titular Thelma, a feisty… Read More Movie Review: Thelma
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing the streaming special South Park: Joining the Panderverse on Blu-ray. The 49 minute animated special from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone skewers everything from “woke” culture, to useless college degrees, multiverse movies, and token diverse characters in Disney reboots. The wide-ranging special, which premiered… Read More Blu-ray Review: South Park: Joining the Panderverse
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto Jewish Film Festival runs from May 30th to June 9th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The title of director Amnon Carmi’s indie comedy Yaniv refers to an old Jewish card game originating from Israel, that two teachers in New York see… Read More #TJFF2024 Review: Yaniv (Centrepiece Film)
By John Corrado The feature directorial debut of actress Pamela Adlon, Babes is a comedy about motherhood and adult friendship, that explores the bond between Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), and how it changes when the former becomes pregnant with her first child after the latter has just had her second. Eden and… Read More Movie Review: Babes
By John Corrado Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) is an awkward high school loner in 1989 who falls for the reanimated corpse of a man from the Victorian era whose grave she likes to visit in the horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein, written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body). Following the horror movie death of her mother,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Lisa Frankenstein (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of Mean Girls (2024). For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. This musical reimagining of Mean Girls, the modern classic teen comedy from 2004, is receiving a 4K Ultra HD… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Mean Girls (2024)
By John Corrado The high school comedy Mean Girls was released in theatres exactly twenty years ago today on April 30th, 2004, and Paramount is marking the occasion by releasing the film for the first time on 4K Ultra HD, in a brand new 20th anniversary edition. The film, which just received a musical remake… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Mean Girls (2004): 20th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Directed by brothers David and Nathan Zellner (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter), Sasquatch Sunset is a unique and ambitious indie dramedy that unfolds without dialogue and follows a family of sasquatches living off the land, played by actors in realistic fursuits. There’s the gruff, older patriarch (Nathan Zellner), the mama bear matriarch (Riley… Read More Movie Review: Sasquatch Sunset
By John Corrado Based on the real life case of the Littlehampton Letters (with an opening title card assuring us that “this is more true than you’d think”), Wicked Little Letters is an amusing trifle set in a small English town in 1920. The story centres around the scandal involving a series of insulting letters… Read More Movie Review: Wicked Little Letters
By John Corrado A follow up to the 2021 legacy sequel Ghostbusters: Afterlife (which was itself a course correction from the misguided 2016 reboot), Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is the latest film in the franchise that began forty years ago. It’s safe to say that all of these films have been chasing the high of the… Read More Movie Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
By John Corrado This sequel to the 1997 Nickelodeon kids comedy Good Burger finds Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell reprising their roles as Dex and Ed, the two dudes who work at the eponymous burger joint. In Good Burger 2 (a Paramount+ Original Movie), Dex is now an aspiring entrepreneur whose business ideas all have… Read More DVD Review: Good Burger 2
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