By John Corrado We finally have a trailer (and an official title!) for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film. It’s called Disclosure Day, and is the director’s long-awaited return to the sci-fi genre. The details of it have been kept tantalizingly under wraps so far. This is said to be him going back to his roots of… Read More First Teaser for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day!
By John Corrado James Cameron returns to the world of Avatar in Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in his sci-fi saga that began all the way back in 2009. And this latest instalment essentially delivers more of what fans of the first two want, with Cameron giving us another immersive, visually dazzling trip… Read More Movie Review: Avatar: Fire and Ash
By John Corrado Director Dan Trachtenberg reinvigorated the decades old Predator franchise with his previous two entries; the 2022 prequel Prey, which was a 1700s-set Comanche survival thriller, and Predator: Killer of Killers, an animated anthology movie released earlier this year. Trachtenberg now switches things up one more time with Predator: Badlands, which is again… Read More Movie Review: Predator: Badlands
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 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 The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash has now been released online, after premiering in theatres in front of The Fantastic Four: First Steps over the weekend. I got to preview the trailer in IMAX before the Fantastic Four press screening last week (I posted my thoughts on X/Twitter). To reiterate,… Read More Trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash
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 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 How do you even begin to follow an all-timer movie like Parasite, especially after it becomes the first non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Picture? You make Mickey 17, one of the biggest “blank cheque” movies of all time. In following up his landmark Oscar-winner, Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Mickey 17
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first trailer for Tron: Ares, the long-awaited follow up to the 2010 legacy sequel Tron: Legacy. This one concerns a computer program, Ares, getting loose in the real world. A sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film Tron, Tron: Legacy was a visually dazzling experience with an awesome… Read More First Trailer for Disney’s Tron: Ares
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the new trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, the Korean director’s follow up to his Oscar-winning Parasite. This one stars Robert Pattinson as a lonely man who signs up to be an “expendable” on a dangerous space mission; every time he dies, they just print out… Read More New Trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17
Warner Bros. has just released the first full-length trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, the Korean director’s new film following his Oscar-winning Parasite in 2019. The film was supposed to come out this past March, but somewhat curiously had its release date pushed back to January 31st, 2025, fully bypassing an Oscar run. Adapted… Read More Trailer Released for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5th to 15th, more information can be found right here. Former music video director Joseph Kahn follows up his raucous 2017 battle rap satire Bodied with Ick; a sci-fi horror comedy that serves as homage to stereotypical early-2000s high school movies, starring Brandon… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Ick (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Léo (Pier-Luc Funk) is a lonely pizza delivery driver in Montreal, who becomes the latest target of John (François Papineau), an alien posing as an older cab driver, who… Read More #TIFF24 Review: You Are Not Alone (Discovery)
By John Corrado The seventh instalment in the Alien franchise that began in 1979, Alien: Romulus is a spinoff sequel that is set somewhere between the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 followup Aliens. Directed by Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe, the Evil Dead remake), Romulus shares a lot of DNA with Scott’s… Read More Movie Review: Alien: Romulus
By John Corrado Eli Roth, the actor turned filmmaker who is mostly known for his bloody slasher movies, now takes a stab at directing a video game adaptation with Borderlands. But, in bringing the titular franchise to the screen, Roth struggles mightily to overcome the curse of most video game adaptations. The result is a… Read More Movie Review: Borderlands
By John Corrado A Quiet Place: Day One is a very solid prequel to director John Krasinski’s first two thrillers, which were built around the gimmick of people needing to stay silent lest they get eaten by monsters with super-hearing. This film is written and directed by Michael Sarnoski (taking over from Krasinski, who helped… Read More Movie Review: A Quiet Place: Day One
By John Corrado The sequel to 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire finds the two Titans teaming up after duking it out, and the results are mixed. Directed by Adam Wingard, returning to the series following GvK, GxK is a monster-smash movie that offers little else besides massive creatures pulverizing each… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of Dune: Part Two. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is still one of the best movies of the year so far (and also… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Dune: Part Two
By John Corrado Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, the follow-up to 2021’s Dune, is massive filmmaking in every sense. Villeneuve builds upon the first film, completing his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel. The film picks up directly after the events of the first. Following the death of his family on Arrakis at the… Read More Movie Review: Dune: Part Two
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