By John Corrado Ne Zha II is the Chinese blockbuster that became the highest grossing animated film of all time, beating the record previously set by Inside Out 2 just last year, almost entirely from what it grossed in China alone. The film had previously been released in North American theatres earlier this year, and now we… Read More Movie Review: Ne Zha II
By John Corrado Honey Don’t! is the second solo film from director Ethan Coen, who first split from his brother Joel to make last year’s crime comedy Drive-Away Dolls, a collaboration with his wife and co-writer Tricia Cooke. This latest, which was also co-written by Coen and Cooke and is the second in their planned… Read More Movie Review: Honey Don’t!
By John Corrado The live-action remake of DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon was a slam-dunk hit at the box office earlier this summer, and now it’s available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. I reviewed this one in theatres (you can read my full thoughts on the film here), and was somewhat pleasantly… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: How to Train Your Dragon (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Bob Odenkirk returns as contract killer and family man Hutch Mansell in Nobody 2, the pretty good sequel to the 2021 pandemic-era action flick that did modestly well in theatres and found even more of an audience on VOD. And this slightly higher-budgeted followup kinda feels like an old school action movie… Read More Movie Review: Nobody 2
By John Corrado Weapons, the ambitious new horror movie from director Zach Cregger who burst onto the scene with Barbarian in 2022, opens with a killer hook. One night, at 2:17am, seventeen kids all woke up, got out of bed, walked out their front doors, and disappeared. At the start of the film, we see… Read More Movie Review: Weapons
By John Corrado My Mother’s Wedding, which actually premiered at TIFF two years ago under the original title North Star, is the directorial debut of actress Kristin Scott Thomas, who also appears in the film as the titular mother getting married. But this uneven comedy-drama mainly focuses on her character Diana Frost’s three adult daughters;… Read More Movie Review: My Mother’s Wedding
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 How do you reboot the classic police spoof The Naked Gun without its star Leslie Nielsen, especially when the spoof genre itself has sadly withered away over the past few decades? You hire Liam Neeson to take over the role. Yes, that Neeson, who is best known as a dramatic actor and… Read More Movie Review: The Naked Gun
By John Corrado A couple find themselves being increasingly bound together in Together, the new body horror rom-com from writer-director Michael Shanks. But the real selling point of the film is the casting of actual couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, whose chemistry adds an extra layer of interest. The real-life married couple star as… Read More Movie Review: Together
By John Corrado If, on the surface, Oh, Hi! might seem likely your typical indie romantic dramedy, it’s one with a blackly comic twist. Writer-director Sophie Brooks sets the stage for this in the opening scene, with female lead Iris (Molly Gordon) frantically telling her best friend Max (Geraldine Viswanathan) that she “did something bad.”… Read More Movie Review: Oh, Hi!
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
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