By John Corrado Digger, the latest film from Birdman and The Revenant filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, stars Tom Cruise in the titular role of Digger Rockwell, an aging Texas oil tycoon. Cruise, appearing in old man makeup, has been the main selling point of Iñárritu’s film. Returning to non-action roles, Digger gives the actor the… Read More Movie Review: Digger
By John Corrado Director Michael Showalter’s Verity, the latest adaptation of a novel by It Ends With Us and Regretting You author Colleen Hoover, is a throwback to the psychological thrillers of the 1990s and 2000s, that themselves were inspired by the films of Brian De Palma who borrowed liberally from Alfred Hitchcock. This leaves… Read More Movie Review: Verity
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 Fresh off of winning the People’s Choice Award at TIFF, Netflix has released a new trailer for Spanish historical drama La Bola Negra. The trailer is largely built around Glenn Close’s appearance in the film, and reveals the epic scope of the triptych storytelling, which won co-directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi… Read More Official Trailer for La Bola Negra
By John Corrado Focus Features has just put out the first official trailer for Elsinore, fresh off the film winning the International People’s Choice Award at TIFF. Andrew Scott stars in the film as Chariots of Fire actor Ian Charleson, with the film focusing on his performance in a production of Hamlet while he was… Read More Official Trailer for Elsinore, starring Andrew Scott
By John Corrado Perhaps the funniest thing about director John Wilson’s The History of Concrete, the comedian and documentarian’s endearingly offbeat feature debut, is that we actually do learn a lot about concrete by watching the film. Playing in a similar vein to his HBO series How To with John Wilson, Wilson’s film is a… Read More Movie Review: The History of Concrete
By John Corrado We now have a new “official” trailer for Werwulf, the latest film from director Robert Eggers. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe all star in this 14th century werewolf movie, re-teaming with Eggers following their roles in his 2024 vampire film Nosferatu. I’m pretty excited for this one. It looks very… Read More New Trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf
By John Corrado In director Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, which won the Directing Award at Sundance earlier this year, Rinko Kikuchi stars as Haru, a Japanese woman who loves ballroom dancing. Haru lives in Tokyo, and performs in ballroom dance competitions with her husband Luis (Alejandro Edda). Then Luis dies suddenly, and… Read More Movie Review: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
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 It’s the mid-2000s, right in the middle of the reality TV boom, and Chris Hansen is using his NBC show To Catch a Predator to turn sting operations capturing pedophiles into entertainment. This is the premise behind Primetime, director Lance Oppenheim’s quasi-biopic of Hansen turned stylish, disturbing Nightcrawler-esque thriller. Robert Pattinson stars… Read More Movie Review: Primetime
By John Corrado Before Noel and Liam Gallagher, the rockstar brothers behind Oasis, actually took the stage again for the first show of their 2025 reunion tour in Cardiff, the idea that they would ever truly make amends, let alone walk out on the same stage holding hands, didn’t seem like a sure thing until… Read More Movie Review: Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
By John Corrado Onslaught is director Adam Wingard’s return to the horror-thriller genre following his forays into monster movie blockbusters with Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. In fact, Onslaught is such a return to form for Wingard that he has said it takes place in the same universe as his… Read More Movie Review: Onslaught
By John Corrado It’s hard to review Coyote vs. Acme without first talking about the long, strange journey that the film has been on to actually reach theatres. After it was completed in 2023, Warner Bros. made the controversial (and quite frankly shameful) decision to not release it, and instead permanently shelve the film as… Read More Movie Review: Coyote vs. Acme
By John Corrado The romantic comedy formula is tried and true at this point, but every so often a new one comes along that reminds us just how satisfying this formula can be when done well. Such is the case with director Alicia MacDonald’s Finding Emily, a British romantic comedy that is produced by heavy… Read More Movie Review: Finding Emily
By John Corrado Sony Pictures has just put out a new trailer for The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s quasi-sequel to David Fincher’s modern classic The Social Network. Fincher, of course, isn’t returning this time around, with screenwriter Sorkin instead handling directing duties himself. Jeremy Strong is also taking over from Jesse Eisenberg in the role… Read More New Trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning
By John Corrado The Dog Stars is the latest film from director Ridley Scott, a legendary filmmaker now in his late eighties who has earned his stripes with a number of classics over the decades, but whose output has been decidedly more hit or miss in recent years. This post-apocalyptic drama, which is adapted from… Read More Movie Review: The Dog Stars
By John Corrado Adapted from the classic children’s novels by Enid Blyton, The Magic Faraway Tree is a British live-action family film that works mostly as a cute and charming adventure. The story follows Tim Thompson (Andrew Garfield) and his wife Polly (Claire Foy), as they move to the countryside with their three kids. The… Read More Movie Review: The Magic Faraway Tree
By John Corrado Directed by Kent Jones, the film Late Fame mainly exists to give a formidable late career role to Willem Dafoe, an actor whose own current standing among young cinephiles could be seen as being mirrored in the film’s narrative. Dafoe stars in the film as Ed Saxberger, a poet living in New… Read More Movie Review: Late Fame
By John Corrado Director Andrew Patterson’s The Rivals of Amziah King, the long awaited follow up to his 2019 breakout film The Vast of Night, is finally arriving in theatres after premiering at SXSW in 2025, nearly a year-and-a-half ago. This delay isn’t because the movie isn’t good (because it is good), but likely due… Read More Movie Review: The Rivals of Amziah King
By John Corrado The film Tony, Canadian director Matt Johnson’s new biopic of Anthony Bourdain, opens with a quote from the celebrity chef’s bestselling 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential. “I was – to be frank – a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, badly in need of a good ass-kicking,” the screen reads. And… Read More Movie Review: Tony
