By John Corrado Director Paul Feig is probably best known for his comedy work like Bridesmaids, but dipped his toes into the thriller genre with his darkly comic 2018 mystery film A Simple Favor and its sequel Another Simple Favor, released earlier this year. It’s this energy that Feig now brings to The Housemaid, his… Read More Movie Review: The Housemaid
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just revealed the title and released the first teaser for Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest film. It’s called Digger, and stars Tom Cruise in the leading role of a man named Digger Rockwell. Everything about this one has been kept very secretive throughout the production, when it was… Read More First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, starring Tom Cruise!
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 A young girl has to confront the monster under her bed in Dust Bunny, the imaginative feature directorial debut of TV writer and producer Bryan Fuller, who is best known for series like Star Trek: Discovery, Pushing Daisies, and fan favourite Hannibal. Despite reuniting him with his Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen, Fuller… Read More Movie Review: Dust Bunny
By John Corrado Aside from his role as co-creator and producer of The Simpsons, which is certainly enough of a legacy on its own, James L. Brooks is also best known for writing and directing a trio of beloved, all-timer romantic dramedies with Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good As It Gets. Brooks… Read More Movie Review: Ella McCay
By John Corrado In her new documentary The Tale of Silyan, the follow-up to her Oscar-nominated Honeyland, director Tamara Kotevska once again explores the balance between people and nature in North Macedonia. In Honeyland, Kotevska focused on an elderly beekeeper having her traditional way of life – and her livelihood – threatened by a new family… Read More Movie Review: The Tale of Silyan
By John Corrado In his acceptance speech at the SAG Awards earlier year, when he won the Best Actor trophy for his uncanny portrayal of Bob Dylan in music biopic A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet unabashedly spoke about wanting to be one of the greats. The young actor took some heat for it online. Surely… Read More Movie Review: Marty Supreme
By John Corrado When Zootopia came out in 2016, it took a lot of people by surprise (myself included) with how sharp and relevant it was. Set in an anthropomorphic world of talking animals designed like a bustling metropolis, the Disney film delivered a timely message about stereotypes and discrimination between “predators” and “prey,” told… Read More Movie Review: Zootopia 2
By John Corrado Named for the most well known song from the second half of the Broadway musical, Wicked: For Good is the grand finale of director Jon M. Chu’s two-part film adaptation, and it delivers on the dramatic promise of the story. If it’s maybe not quite as good as the first movie, which… Read More Movie Review: Wicked: For Good
By John Corrado Disney has just released the new trailer (and poster) for Hoppers, Pixar’s next original movie opening next year. This one follows a girl who has her consciousness put into a robotic beaver, to infiltrate the animal kingdom. The full cast list has also been unveiled, including Meryl Streep, making her Pixar debut!… Read More New Trailer for Pixar’s Hoppers!
By John Corrado The first teaser trailer has just been released for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. This is the sixth instalment in the franchise, and the second prequel following 2013’s The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. This one is set in Panem over two decades before the first one, and focuses on… Read More First Teaser Trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
By John Corrado Disney has just put out the first teaser trailer (and poster) for their upcoming live action remake of Moana. The studio continuing with the live action updates isn’t shocking, especially after the massive success of Lilo & Stitch earlier this year. But this one is arriving barely a decade after the animated… Read More First Teaser for Disney’s Live-Action Moana
By John Corrado Do you know how hard it is to be yourself? That’s the quippy answer that George Clooney’s movie star character Jay Kelly, the titular protagonist of director Noah Baumbach’s latest film, gives when someone asks him what it feels like to be accused by critics of always playing himself. Of course, Clooney… Read More Movie Review: Jay Kelly
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just released the first teaser trailer (and a poster) for The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is arriving next summer exactly twenty years after the 2006 original. David Frankel returns to direct, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci all reprising their roles. This is… Read More Teaser Trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first teaser trailer (and a new poster) for Pixar’s Toy Story 5, the fifth film in the series that is set to arrive next summer. I’m guessing this teaser will play before Disney’s Zootopia 2 in a few weeks. Set to INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart,” this… Read More First Teaser Trailer for Pixar’s Toy Story 5!
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 Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is the third film in the magic heist franchise, arriving nearly a decade after the second instalment to complete the trilogy that began with 2013’s Now You See Me and its 2016 sequel. The fact that there is some hype for a third movie in… Read More Movie Review: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
By John Corrado In Nuremberg, director James Vanderbilt dramatizes the Nuremberg trials, when members of the Nazi high command were arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity in the wake of World War II. The result is a rock solid old school historical drama that works surprisingly well on every level. Rami Malek… Read More Movie Review: Nuremberg
By John Corrado It’s funny that, in the decade since the blockbuster YA franchises that made them both movie stars wrapped up, the long-awaited big screen pairing of Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence and Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, is an arthouse movie. It speaks to the genuine credibility they have both built for themselves within the… Read More Movie Review: Die My Love
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