By John Corrado When Zootopia came out in 2016, it took a lot of people by surprise (myself included) with how sharp and relevant it was. Set in an anthropomorphic world of talking animals designed like a bustling metropolis, the Disney film delivered a timely message about stereotypes and discrimination between “predators” and “prey,” told… Read More Movie Review: Zootopia 2
By John Corrado Disney has just released the new trailer (and poster) for Hoppers, Pixar’s next original movie opening next year. This one follows a girl who has her consciousness put into a robotic beaver, to infiltrate the animal kingdom. The full cast list has also been unveiled, including Meryl Streep, making her Pixar debut!… Read More New Trailer for Pixar’s Hoppers!
By John Corrado Disney has just put out the first teaser trailer (and poster) for their upcoming live action remake of Moana. The studio continuing with the live action updates isn’t shocking, especially after the massive success of Lilo & Stitch earlier this year. But this one is arriving barely a decade after the animated… Read More First Teaser for Disney’s Live-Action Moana
By John Corrado The Jonas Brothers are back in A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, the Disney Plus Original that finds the boyband brothers trying to get back home for Christmas. The film opens with brothers Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas finishing up their tour in London just days before Christmas, and looking forward to getting… Read More Movie Review: A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (Disney+)
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first teaser trailer (and a new poster) for Pixar’s Toy Story 5, the fifth film in the series that is set to arrive next summer. I’m guessing this teaser will play before Disney’s Zootopia 2 in a few weeks. Set to INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart,” this… Read More First Teaser Trailer for Pixar’s Toy Story 5!
By John Corrado It’s been fifteen years since the release of director Joseph Kosinki’s Tron: Legacy, a belated follow up to Disney’s 1982 film Tron. This stretch of time between Kosinski’s 2010 film and the new third instalment, Tron: Ares, means that Ares itself feels like a legacy sequel meant to resurrect older IP, in… Read More Movie Review: Tron: Ares
By John Corrado Disney has just released the new, full-length trailer for Zootopia 2. This is the highly anticipated sequel to the 2016 smash hit Zootopia, seeing the return of bunny cop Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), now working together as official law enforcement partners. This trailer gives us a… Read More New Trailer for Disney’s Zootopia 2
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 Disney has just released the first poster and teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, the big screen continuation of the popular Disney Plus series. Will this translate into being a box office hit? This is the first theatrically released Star Wars movie since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019.… Read More Teaser Trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
By John Corrado A belated sequel to Disney’s 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as mother and daughter who switch places with each other, could have easily gone off the rails. Especially since that film was already a remake of an earlier movie from 1976 (starring Jodie Foster),… Read More Movie Review: Freakier Friday
By John Corrado Disney’s Zootopia was a wonderful surprise back in 2016, and it’s become a fan favourite over the years, so a sequel was inevitable. Now we are finally getting one nearly a decade later with Zootopia 2, and the studio has just put out a brand new trailer for the film. This sequel… Read More New Trailer for Disney’s Zootopia 2!
By John Corrado The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the latest attempt to bring Marvel’s “first family” to the big screen, and is easily the most successful one yet, following previous versions in 2005 (Fantastic Four) and 2007 (The Rise of the Silver Surfer), with a failed reboot in 2015 (Fant4stic). This latest iteration, directed… Read More Movie Review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By John Corrado Disney has just released the full trailer for Tron: Ares. This new look at the sequel to 2010’s underrated Tron: Legacy shows us more of the film’s premise, which involves the computerized world of Tron being brought into our world through an AI entity named Ares (played by Jared Leto). I’m already… Read More New Trailer for Disney’s Tron: Ares
By John Corrado Pixar has just put out the first teaser trailer for Hoppers, the animation studio’s next original movie. This one is directed by Daniel Chong, who is best known for the popular cartoon series We Bare Bears. The story follows a girl who transfers her mind into a robotic beaver body, allowing her… Read More Teaser Trailer for Pixar’s Hoppers
By John Corrado The Fantastic Four: First Steps is now just a month out from releasing in theatres, and Disney and Marvel have put out the final trailer for the film. This latest attempt to bring Marvel’s “First Family” to the big screen is starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn. This… Read More Final Trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By John Corrado Elio, the very sweet new animated film from Pixar, uses the age old question of “are we alone in the universe?” to explore the very real topic of loneliness, namely that of the titular Elio (voiced by Yonas Kibreab). Elio is a space-obsessed kid who has been left living on a military… Read More Movie Review: Elio
By John Corrado Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp (who previously made the small gem Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), Lilo & Stitch is a delightful, big-hearted family movie that stands out as one of Disney’s best live-action remakes. The original animated film from 2002, about the friendship between a girl and her pet alien,… Read More Movie Review: Lilo & Stitch
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first teaser trailer for Zootopia 2 (which will likely play in front of Lilo & Stitch this weekend). This teaser, which is set to music, doesn’t show us much. But it does give us a glimpse at some of the new worlds that our heroes Nick Wilde… Read More First Teaser for Zootopia 2
By John Corrado Disneynature’s Earth Day releases have been an annual tradition since 2009, when the studio released Earth. The films have since shifted away from being theatrical releases and migrated to being released direct to streaming on Disney Plus, but the tradition remains largely the same. In Sea Lions of the Galapagos, the latest… Read More Movie Review: Sea Lions of the Galapagos (Disney+)
By John Corrado Disney has just released the new trailer for Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. This is the highly anticipated reboot that officially brings Marvel’s “First Family” into the fold of the MCU. And it looks fun. I’m mainly interested to see Marvel playing around in the Space Age 1960s. Pedro Pascal stars… Read More New Trailer for The Fantastic Four: Four Steps
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