By John Corrado The film Tony, Canadian director Matt Johnson’s new biopic of Anthony Bourdain, opens with a quote from the celebrity chef’s bestselling 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential. “I was – to be frank – a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, badly in need of a good ass-kicking,” the screen reads. And… Read More Movie Review: Tony
By John Corrado Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the third film from director Jane Schoenbrun, is a tribute to 1980s slasher movies channeled through a meta, queer lens. In this way, Camp Miasma serves as an interesting companion piece to Schoenbrun’s haunting 2023 sophomore film I Saw the TV Glow, which also operated… Read More Movie Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
By John Corrado Eli Roth’s latest bad-taste splatter flick Ice Cream Man is a passion project that the horror filmmaker has been trying to get made for years, and finally had to self-produce under the banner of his new production company The Horror Section. The result is an idiotic horror comedy (?) that is never… Read More Movie Review: Ice Cream Man
By John Corrado When Spider-Man: No Way Home was released back in 2021, it felt like a culmination of things in so many ways, not only as a capper to the Tom Holland trilogy, but also as a thrilling, two-decades-in-the-making crossover event (and celebration) for cinematic Spidey fans. It was always going to be a… Read More Movie Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
By John Corrado Sheep in the Box, named for a passage in The Little Prince, is the latest work from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who has proven himself a master of quietly observed character studies that raise thorny emotional questions. On paper, at least, this makes Kore-eda, serving as both writer and director, a natural fit… Read More Movie Review: Sheep in the Box
By John Corrado One of my favourite movies of the year so far, the fantastic World War II drama Pressure is being released on physical media this week, including 4K Ultra HD. Andrew Scott stars in the film as James Stagg, the meteorologist tasked with providing General Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) the weather forecast for D-Day.… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Pressure (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Her Private Hell is the latest film from Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, whose 2011 thriller Drive starring Ryan Gosling is the closest thing he’s had to a mainstream hit, and a far better movie than anything he’s made since. This is Refn’s first film in a decade since 2016’s The Neon… Read More Movie Review: Her Private Hell
By John Corrado After becoming a surprise box office sensation at the start of the summer, director Curry Barker’s breakout horror movie Obsession is now getting a physical media release, including on 4K Ultra HD. The film follows the lonely Bear (Michael Johnston), who uses a “One Wish Willow” to wish that his crush Nikki… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Obsession (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens with glimpses of the Trojan Horse, half-submerged in water and being pulled onto the beach by unsuspecting Trojan guards who view it as a gift. We’ve all heard the story, or “song,” of how Greek soldiers hid inside this giant wooden horse to sneak inside the city… Read More Movie Review: The Odyssey
By John Corrado The appeal of the Minions, those little pill-shaped yellow guys who speak gibberish and made their debut in 2010’s Despicable Me, is that they provide classic cartoon humour. As such, their giggle-inducing antics can be enjoyed across all languages, cultures and age groups, not unlike silent movies themselves. It’s fitting, then, that… Read More Movie Review: Minions & Monsters
By John Corrado The first full length trailer has finally been unveiled for Digger, the new dark comedy from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, starring Tom Cruise. This is our first full look at Cruise’s transformation, which involves old man makeup and a Southern accent, in what is being set up as a chance for the movie… Read More New Trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, starring Tom Cruise!
By John Corrado Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, the gonzo new comedy from director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer), functions as a mix of crude sex humour, celebrity cameos, and over the top homage to The Wizard of Oz. You see, main character Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) is really just a girl… Read More Movie Review: Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
By John Corrado Moana is the latest Disney movie to be getting a live-action remake, but what sets this one apart is that it is arriving barely a decade after the animated film came out in 2016, and less than two years after the sequel Moana 2 grossed just over a billion dollars in 2024.… Read More Movie Review: Moana
By John Corrado If modern filmmakers like Ari Aster and Jordan Peele helped define a subgenre known as “elevated horror,” director Kat Coiro’s Italy-set romantic comedy You, Me & Tuscany pioneers something that could be described as “elevated Hallmark.” This rom-com plays like something that could air on the Hallmark Channel, but with recognizable stars… Read More Blu-ray Review: You, Me & Tuscany
By John Corrado The Invite is the third film directed by actress Olivia Wilde, following her 2019 debut with the teen comedy Booksmart, and her overly ambitious sophomore feature Don’t Worry Darling in 2022. This film finds her not only rebounding mightily after the notorious critical flop of Don’t Worry Darling (a film that bit… Read More Movie Review: The Invite
By John Corrado It becomes clear early on in Couture, the latest film from French director Alice Winocour, that Angelina Jolie will be giving one of her most personal performances. Jolie stars in the film as Maxine Walker, an American horror filmmaker who is in France for Paris Fashion Week. She has been commissioned to… Read More Movie Review: Couture
By John Corrado Maddie’s Secret is the feature directorial debut of American comedian John Early, who also wrote the script, and stars in the film – in full drag – as the titular Maddie Ralph, a millennial woman who’s got a secret. The result is a satirical dark comedy that is tonally entirely its own… Read More Movie Review: Maddie’s Secret
By John Corrado The horror movie Leviticus, which serves as the feature directorial debut of Australian writer-director Adrian Chiarella, plays almost like an explicitly queer take on It Follows, David Robert Mitchell’s STD-themed indie horror flick from 2014. This slow-burn film follows Naim (Joe Bird) and Ryan (Stacy Clausen), two closeted teen boys in rural… Read More Movie Review: Leviticus
By John Corrado The origins of Girls Like Girls, the feature directorial debut of singer, songwriter and actress Hayley Kiyoko, stem back to her 2015 song “Girls Like Girls” and the music video she co-directed for it. That video for the song, which became a queer anthem of the mid-2010s, got expanded into Kiyoko’s 2023… Read More Movie Review: Girls Like Girls
By John Corrado Disclosure Day is the latest blockbuster from director Steven Spielberg, following his semi-autobiographical 2022 film The Fabelmans (which was also my personal favourite movie of 2022). And it’s a gripping film filled with mystery, intrigue and suspense, as well as surprisingly moving spiritual themes, that reminds us why he is one of… Read More Movie Review: Disclosure Day
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