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
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection on Blu-ray, an individually numbered, limited edition set including every movie and TV series featuring Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard in one very nice box. Limited to 11,750 copies worldwide, this is a truly impressive, 54-disc set that combines all seven… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A mix of home invasion thriller and alien invasion movie, No One Will Save You is a pretty good little sci-fi flick from writer-director Brian Duffield (Spontaneous), that does some stylistically interesting things with its premise. This includes unfolding with minimal dialogue to focus on the more visceral… Read More Review: No One Will Save You (Disney+)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Ben Kingsley stars in the film Jules as Milton Robinson, an aging eccentric who befriends an alien that crash lands in his backyard, and invites the humanoid creature into his home out of loneliness and isolation. This results in an odd but mostly weirdly endearing little film that… Read More Review: Jules
By John Corrado With the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds having just premiered on Paramount+, Paramount recently released Season One of the original series on 4K Ultra HD, including in a limited edition SteelBook set. Led by a diverse cast that includes a mix of new and pre-established characters (including cast members… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season One (Limited Edition SteelBook)
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Since Bruce Willis has announced his retirement from acting due to his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, the film Assassin serves as his final role. As such, the movie is being sold under his name, but Willis is merely a supporting player in the sci-fi flick, which offers a… Read More DVD Review: Assassin
By John Corrado In honour of its 25th anniversary this year, Paramount has released the 1998 summer blockbuster Deep Impact for the first time on 4K Ultra HD. Directed by Mimi Leder, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the film unfolds in the twelve months leading up to when a massive comet is expected to… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Deep Impact: 25th Anniversary
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The year is 2257, and a group of kids are living in a mining colony on the moon. For most of them, life on the third rock from the sun is all they have ever known. This is the premise behind Crater, a new sci-fi movie being released… Read More Review: Crater (Disney+)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Writer-director James Gunn completes his gonzo space adventure trilogy with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, a fitting end to the saga that plays with the same colourful mix of action, humour, and heart that made the first two movies such standouts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And… Read More Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection on 4K Ultra HD, including the films Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). These four films serve as a continuation of the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection
By John Corrado It’s been fifteen years since director Matt Reeves and producer J.J. Abrams first unleashed their found footage monster movie Cloverfield in theatres on January 18th, 2008. Paramount is honouring the milestone by re-releasing the film on 4K Ultra HD this week, in a very nice new limited edition SteelBook set. The film… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Cloverfield: 15th Anniversary – Limited Edition SteelBook
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) It’s been thirteen years since director James Cameron first took us to Pandora in his 2009 sci-fi blockbuster Avatar, a film that some have erroneously claimed had no cultural impact, but won a trio of Oscars, lit the box office on fire, and ushered in a new 3D… Read More Review: Avatar: The Way of Water
By John Corrado Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and Universal Pictures Home Entertaining is releasing a new Blu-ray edition of the film in honour of this milestone. I first saw E.T. as a nine-year-old kid in 2002, when the film was released on DVD for the first time… Read More Blu-ray Review: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: 40th Anniversary Edition
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