By John Corrado With six weeks to go until this one hits theatres, Paramount has just put out the new official trailer for Ebenezer. This is horror director Ti West’s (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) new take on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge. This is Depp’s big comeback role, clearly… Read More New Official Trailer for Ebenezer, starring Johnny Depp
By John Corrado Sometimes all you need for a movie to work is an old school movie star and a canine companion. Such is the case with Heart of the Beast, the latest film from director David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch), which stars Brad Pitt as a Special Forces officer and his combat dog.… Read More Movie Review: Heart of the Beast
By John Corrado The first trailer (and poster) for Ebenezer has just been released online, following its unveiling at San Diego’s Comic-Con today. Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) directs this new take on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge in what is being hyped up as the actor’s… Read More First Trailer for Ebenezer, starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge…
By John Corrado The Wayans brothers make their return to the horror spoof genre with Scary Movie, the sixth movie in the comedy franchise that sees them regaining control of the series for the first time since the first two. Back under the creative control of the Wayans (who left the series before the fan… Read More Movie Review: Scary Movie
By John Corrado Billie Eilish teams up with none other than visionary filmmaker James Cameron to co-direct Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), a solid concert film that will thrill her fans and provides an eye-popping, visually dazzling 3D experience. While Eilish and Cameron might seem like an… Read More Movie Review: Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
By John Corrado Ghostface is back in Scream 7, the latest film in the meta slasher movie franchise that revolves around copycat killers putting on the mask to recreate the original murders in Woodsboro, California. I promise not to get into spoilers in this review, but without burying the lede, Scream 7 is fun. This… Read More Movie Review: Scream 7
By John Corrado All of Edgar Wright’s movies, known for their kinetic, genre-bending style, have a propulsive, forward momentum to them. This makes him a good fit for The Running Man, a new adaptation of the Stephen King story that was already made into a 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger picture, which basically offers a premise of… Read More Movie Review: The Running Man
By John Corrado Regretting You is an adaptation of the Colleen Hoover book, that comes to us from The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone. These two things should tell you what to expect from this film, which is a mix of dramatic weepie and teen romance. Morgan Grant (Allison Williams) and her husband… Read More Movie Review: Regretting You
By John Corrado The latest film from Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine), Roofman is based on the true story of Jeffrey Manchester, a convicted criminal who became known in the media as “Roofman” for robbing a series of McDonalds by cutting a hole through the roof. Manchester was doing this to… Read More #TIFF50 Review: Roofman (Gala Presentations)
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 Paramount has just put out the first trailer for director Edgar Wright’s latest movie The Running Man. This is a new adaptation of the Stephen King book, which was already turned into a movie in 1987 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wright’s version stars Glen Powell as a man trying to survive in a… Read More Official Trailer for Edgar Wright’s The Running Man
By John Corrado Paramount Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Roofman, starring Channing Tatum in the true story of an escaped convict hiding out in a Toys “R” Us. At least the way the trailer sells it, it looks like the story has been turned into a quirky crime comedy. Kirsten Dunst,… Read More First Trailer for Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman
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 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the eighth entry in the action franchise, and it’s fashioned as a sort of swan song for the series that began nearly thirty years ago in 1996. Over the course of this franchise – especially in the last three directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who returns… Read More Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By John Corrado The new trailer has just dropped for Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise in what is said to be his final mission as Ethan Hunt. Everybody should already be sold on this movie. The Mission: Impossible series has turned into one of our most reliable blockbuster franchises, with… Read More New Trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By John Corrado The third film in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, adapted from the SEGA video games, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 finds director Jeff Fowler delivering another hybrid of live action and animation that feels very consistent with the first two. In other words, it’s fun. Sure, these aren’t cinematic masterpieces by any stretch.… Read More Movie Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
By John Corrado At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, a group of Palestinian terrorists broke into the Olympic Village and kidnapped Israeli athletes, holding them hostage in a tense standoff. Director Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 is a movie about this hostage crisis, but somewhat indirectly; the film is based on the true story of the ABC… Read More Movie Review: September 5
By John Corrado Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, the filmmaker’s Oscar-winning modern classic from 2000, is remembered for many things, including star Russell Crowe throwing his arms open in the arena and asking the immortal question, “are you not entertained?” It’s a moment that has become somewhat of a meme, but it’s impossible not to think about… Read More Movie Review: Gladiator II
By John Corrado Paramount has just released the teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which is being pitched as the concluding chapter in the saga of Tom Cruise’s special agent Ethan Hunt. The film serves as a direct continuation of the 2022 film Dead Reckoning (which has since dropped “Part One” from… Read More Teaser Trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By John Corrado The 2022 horror movie Smile rode the wave of a concept ready-made for viral marketing campaigns to become a hit at the box office. Add in the fact that the film’s premise basically allowed for near-endless follow-ups, and a sequel was an inevitable case of not if, but when. Writer-director Parker Finn (who expanded… Read More Movie Review: Smile 2