By John Corrado Milla Jovovich, the star of the Resident Evil franchise, is now being given her own Liam Neeson in Taken or Sylvester Stallone in Rambo moment in Protector. That latter comparison makes some sense since this film comes to us from director Adrian Grünberg, who previously made the 2019 legacy sequel Rambo: Last… Read More Movie Review: Protector
By John Corrado Pixar already took us inside the mind of an adolescent girl in both Inside Out movies, and now the studio’s latest film, Hoppers, follows a teenaged girl who puts her mind inside a robotic beaver. The result is an incredibly fun animated film that is totally zany and often very funny (including… Read More Movie Review: Hoppers
By John Corrado A young girl is selected to bake a cake for her school in honour of President Saddam Hussein’s birthday in Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi’s debut feature The President’s Cake, which serves as a charming neorealist throwback. Hadi’s film is set in Iraq in the early 1990s, where, despite mass starvation caused by… Read More Movie Review: The President’s Cake
By John Corrado Dreams is the latest film from Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, and his second collaboration with actress Jessica Chastain following their 2023 dementia drama Memory. In Dreams, Chastain takes on the role of Jennifer McCarthy, a rich socialite in San Francisco who is having a forbidden affair with a much younger ballet dancer… Read More Movie Review: Dreams
By John Corrado In Cold Light, the English-language debut of Quebec filmmaker Maxime Giroux, is a mix of crime drama and thriller that stars Maika Monroe as a young ex-convict in Alberta trying to get her life back on track, but being dragged right back into the criminal underworld. The film opens with Ava (Monroe)… Read More Movie Review: In Cold Light
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 In Midwinter Break, the feature directorial debut of British National Theatre director Polly Findlay, Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds star as an older married couple on vacation in Amsterdam. Stella (Manville) and Gerry (Hinds) are originally from Ireland, but have lived together in Glasgow for years. It’s clear from the opening scenes… Read More Movie Review: Midwinter Break
By John Corrado We just got a brand new trailer (and poster) for Toy Story 5. This is Disney and Pixar’s return to the world of their flagship franchise, which finds the toys facing a new adversary in the form of a tablet named Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee), stealing Bonnie’s attention. Yes, this is… Read More New Trailer for Toy Story 5!
By John Corrado Disney has just released a brand new trailer (and poster) for director Jon Favreau’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. This is following an initial teaser and Super Bowl ad for the film, which is of course the big screen spinoff of their popular streaming series The Mandalorian on Disney Plus. Pedro… Read More New Trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
By John Corrado Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” (those quotation marks are an intentional stylistic choice) is the Promising Young Woman and Saltburn filmmaker’s take on the classic Emily Brontë novel from the 1840s. Fennell’s adaptation is a mildly revisionist and risqué take on Brontë. This is her version of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s doomed love… Read More Movie Review: “Wuthering Heights”
By John Corrado In Pillion, British writer-director Harry Lighton delivers a queer romantic dramedy with a BDSM twist, exploring a dominant-submissive relationship in a way that is open and honest. Colin (Harry Melling) is a shy young man in London who lives with his aging mum (Lesley Sharp) and dad (Douglas Hodge). He works issuing… Read More Movie Review: Pillion
By John Corrado A strange man wearing a plastic trench coat bursts into a Los Angeles diner one night, telling all the patrons that he is from the future and the world will end if they don’t follow him. This is the inciting incident for the genre-hopping Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, which serves… Read More Movie Review: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
By John Corrado A green, oozing alien fungus presents a threat to life on Earth in the sci-fi horror comedy Cold Storage, which mainly serves as a decent little B-movie that benefits from knowing it is one. Directed by Jonny Campbell, mostly a British TV director whose only previous film credit is the 2006 film… Read More Movie Review: Cold Storage
By John Corrado Charli XCX stars as a version of herself in The Moment, an A24 film that is neither concert movie or documentary, but rather a sort of docu-fiction hybrid that follows the British pop star on her Brat stadium tour. Or at least a version of all of these things. The film comes… Read More Movie Review: The Moment
By John Corrado The official trailer has just been released for Michael. This is director Antoine Fuqua’s glossy biopic of late pop star Michael Jackson, who is being played in the film by Jackson’s real life nephew Jaafar Jackson, who looks quite good in the role. The resemblance is uncanny. The film has had its… Read More Official Trailer for Antoine Fuqua’s Michael
By John Corrado The title of writer-director Hailey Gates’ pretty good Iraq War satire Atropia refers to the name of an elaborate, fully functional set located in the California desert that serves as a training ground for the United States military. It’s the name of a fictional country, because the government can’t legally name the… Read More Movie Review: Atropia
By John Corrado The Oscar-nominated French animated film Arco, which serves as the feature directorial debut of artist Ugo Bienvenu, imagines a future world where time travel is not only possible, but involves colourful jumpsuits that use rainbows and refracted light. The film opens in the distant future, with a boy named Arco (voiced by… Read More Movie Review: Arco
By John Corrado What would you do if you found yourself stranded on a desert island with your asshole boss? Now imagine that boss, who has constantly belittled you as an employee, has no survival skills, and now you hold all the power? That’s the basic premise behind Send Help, the new film from director… Read More Movie Review: Send Help
By John Corrado H is for Hawk is based on 2014 memoir of the same name by British author and naturalist Helen Macdonald, which told the story of her grief-fuelled friendship with a wild goshawk. Claire Foy stars in the film adaptation as Helen, who we first meet as a shy academic at Cambridge. When… Read More Movie Review: H is for Hawk
By John Corrado The first thing we hear in filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski’s new French-language thriller A Private Life (or Vie privée) is the distinctive strains of The Talking Heads song “Psycho Killer.” The song is leaking into the office of psychiatrist Lillian Steiner (Jodie Foster), as it’s being blasted by her neighbours in the apartment… Read More Movie Review: A Private Life
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