By John Corrado Based on the short story The Wicker Husband by author Ursula Wills-Jones, Wicker is a clever and enjoyable medieval romp starring Olivia Colman as the unnamed Fisherwoman, a spinster who gets herself a husband made of wicker. The film’s co-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, who also co-wrote the screenplay, fully… Read More Movie Review: Wicker
By John Corrado This is something fun I wanted to share. Amazon MGM Studios has just released a new trailer for I Play Rocky, ahead of the film’s release in theatres next month. At just a minute-and-a-half, this trailer gives you a good taste of what to expect from the hugely entertaining film. Peter Farrelly… Read More New Trailer for Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky!
By John Corrado Since their debut film Coraline in 2009, the Oregon-based animation studio LAIKA has not only been keeping stop-motion alive as an art form, but also pushing it forward in exciting ways. Across their subsequent films (ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link), LAIKA has been pioneering new techniques, building… Read More Movie Review: Wildwood
By John Corrado Director Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder is a very enjoyable portrait of The Talented Mr. Ripley author Patricia Highsmith, that works around the clever concept of being both a literary biopic and an imagined version of a sixth story featuring her most famous creation, Tom Ripley. Set in 1995, the film… Read More Movie Review: A Talent for Murder
By John Corrado Sometimes a basic premise is all you need to sell a movie. Such is the case with Whalefall, which follows a young diver who gets swallowed by a whale, and has to survive inside of the creature as his oxygen runs out. But it’s what director Brian Duffield (No One Will Save… Read More Movie Review: Whalefall
By John Corrado We now have our first trailer for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. This is Greta Gerwig’s take on the classic C. S. Lewis series, with the Lady Bird, Little Women and Barbie filmmaker putting her own spin on it. The rock music influences that Gerwig has hinted at are certainly felt in this trailer,… Read More First Trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
By John Corrado Before David Fincher’s The Social Network was released in 2010, there was a lot of talk about whether or not we actually needed a movie about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. It turned out to not only be one of the most prescient films of that decade, but one of the… Read More Movie Review: The Social Reckoning
By John Corrado Apple Original Films has just put out the official trailer for Being Heumann, director Siân Heder’s follow-up to her surprise Best Picture winner CODA. I saw this one when it premiered as the opening night film at TIFF last month (you can read my full review right here), and enjoyed it quite… Read More Official Trailer for Siân Heder’s Being Heumann
By John Corrado We now have the first trailer (and poster) for director Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs, which is also playing in theatres in front of Other Mommy this weekend. This is the latest attempt to reboot this iconic horror franchise, after David Gordon Green’s 2023 legacy sequel Exorcist: Believer fell flat, and the… Read More First Trailer for Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs
By John Corrado In his entertaining directorial debut California Schemin’, actor James McAvoy takes on the wild story of early-2000s rap duo Silibil N’ Brains, whose flash in the pan success was built on a lie. Silibil and Brains were the stage names of Billy Boyd (Samuel Bottomley) and Gavin Bain (Séamus McLean Ross), two… Read More Movie Review: California Schemin’
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