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 Watching Eddington, the new movie from writer-director Ari Aster, it’s hard not to think about how much we still haven’t processed from the year 2020, even though it was (shockingly) five years ago now. Aster’s film is set in May of 2020, to be precise, at the height of mask mandates, lockdowns,… Read More Movie Review: Eddington
By John Corrado Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is one of the most acclaimed and financially successful films of the year, finding that sweet spot as a critically lauded original blockbuster that took off with general audiences as well. The film is now available on 4K Ultra HD. Michael B. Jordan stars in the dual role of… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Sinners
By John Corrado A single mother ends up on a first date from hell in Drop, the twisty new thriller from Blumhouse Productions and director Christopher Landon (Freaky, Happy Death Day). The film also serves as somewhat of a palate cleanser for Landon, who was supposed to direct Scream 7, before that fell through. The… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Drop (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado 40 Acres is a pretty solid Canadian post-apocalyptic survival thriller that imagines a dystopic future where, as the opening title card tells us, a global pandemic led to a second Civil War breaking out and subsequent worldwide famine. This has caused farmland to become the planet’s most valuable resource, with families struggling… Read More Movie Review: 40 Acres
By John Corrado In their debut feature Sorry, Baby, writer-director-star Eva Victor blends elements of comedy and drama to craft a unique, emotionally resonant portrait of a traumatic incident and its aftermath. Victor stars in the film as Agnes, a college literary professor living alone in small town Massachusetts. When the film opens, Agnes’ friend… Read More Movie Review: Sorry, Baby
By John Corrado One of the themes of Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh film in the franchise that arrives 32 years after Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park, is how dinosaurs are no longer as popular as they once were, in the three decades since they were first brought back to life. It would be a… Read More Movie Review: Jurassic World Rebirth
By John Corrado Despite not being scheduled for release until next March, a three minute trailer has just been put out for Project Hail Mary, the new science fiction film from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. It’s based on a book by Andy Weir, who also wrote the book behind The Martian, and stars… Read More First Trailer for Project Hail Mary
By John Corrado In F1: The Movie, director Joseph Kosinski aims to do for race car drivers and Brad Pitt what his 2022 legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick did for fighter pilots and Tom Cruise, and he delivers another crowd-pleasing summer blockbuster. Kosinski’s latest is once again an example of adrenaline-fuelled filmmaking. If Maverick was… Read More Movie Review: F1: The Movie
By John Corrado A Minecraft Movie is the recent box office phenomenon based on the popular video game from Sweden’s Mojang Studios, and it’s one of those films that is basically critic proof. For fans of the game, it’s loaded with Easter Eggs and references, with director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) and a… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: A Minecraft Movie
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 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 Paramount has just put out the full-length trailer for The Naked Gun. This is director Akiva Schaffer’s reboot of the classic Leslie Nielsen police spoofs, starring Liam Neeson as the son of Nielsen’s Frank Drebin. Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser are also in the cast. There are a number of solid… Read More Official Trailer for The Naked Gun
By John Corrado The animated documentary Endless Cookie, which won the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs, offers a quirky portrait of half-brothers Seth and Pete Scriver. Seth is a white animator living in Toronto, using a government grant to make a film about his Indigenous half-brother Pete, who lives in… Read More Movie Review: Endless Cookie
By John Corrado Not to be outdone by Disney, who have made a business out of releasing live-action remakes of their beloved animated films, DreamWorks and Universal now get in on the (live) action with How to Train Your Dragon. The studio’s first live-action update of a DreamWorks Animation film, Dragon is mostly a beat-for-beat… Read More Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon
By John Corrado A24 has just released the official trailer for Eddington, the latest film from Ari Aster. Joaquin Phoenix stars in the “modern Western” as a local sheriff, running for mayor of the titular Texas town against the incumbent (played by Pedro Pascal). It’s also set during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the summer of… Read More Official Trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington
By John Corrado In Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song delivered one of the greatest directorial debuts of all time, reinvigorating a love triangle premise to offer a deeply moving exploration of longing and potentially meeting the right person at the wrong time. Expectations have been set incredibly high for Song’s sophomore feature Materialists, which finds… Read More Movie Review: Materialists
By John Corrado The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson’s twelfth feature film, and by this point, you either vibe with his style or you don’t. Anderson’s latest is another immaculately designed work that doesn’t find him straying from his signature style, but rather doubling down on it; the panning camera moves, the intricate, dollhouse-like sets,… Read More Movie Review: The Phoenician Scheme
By John Corrado Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, we get Dangerous Animals, a clever, entertaining spin on killer shark movies from director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones). In Byrne’s film, the sharks aren’t the real villains, and the main threat is actually a different type of predator;… Read More Movie Review: Dangerous Animals
By John Corrado The real life exorcism of Emma Schmidt is said to be the most well documented case of an exorcism and demonic possession in North America. Which is why it’s so disappointing that The Ritual, director David Midell’s dramatized version of these events from nearly a hundred years ago, is so poorly handled.… Read More Movie Review: The Ritual
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