By John Corrado The title of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest film from French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, refers to Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano), a fictional, composite figure who is shown to be at the centre of Putin’s rise in post-Soviet Russia. Adapted from Emmanuel Carrère’s 2022 novel of the same name, the film… Read More Movie Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin
By John Corrado Would you want your crush to love you more than anyone in the world? That’s the question at the centre of writer-director Curry Barker’s new horror movie Obsession, one of the big breakout films from last year’s Midnight Madness section at TIFF. Bear (Michael Johnston) is a love-lorn young adult who wishes… Read More Movie Review: Obsession
By John Corrado A brand new “teaser” trailer has just dropped for Wildwood. This is the latest stop-motion animated film from LAIKA, the studio behind modern classics like Coraline, ParaNorman and Kubo and the Two Strings. It’s no surprise coming from them that Wildwood looks visually stunning, with this entire trailer playing like a highlight… Read More New Teaser Trailer for LAIKA’s Wildwood
By John Corrado Billie Eilish teams up with none other than visionary filmmaker James Cameron to co-direct Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), a solid concert film that will thrill her fans and provides an eye-popping, visually dazzling 3D experience. While Eilish and Cameron might seem like an… Read More Movie Review: Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
By John Corrado Director Cole Webley’s debut feature Omaha is a quiet heartbreaker of a film that delivers a huge emotional impact as it mixes road movie and family drama. The film opens in the early morning, with a dad (John Magaro) bringing his sleeping son Charlie (Wyatt Solis) out to the car, and waking… Read More Movie Review: Omaha
By John Corrado A24 has just released the first trailer for their upcoming Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, which stars Dominic Sessa as the celebrity chef. The main reason I’m intrigued by this one is because it’s directed by none other than Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson, who is coming off the recent critical success of his… Read More First Trailer for Matt Johnson’s Tony
By John Corrado The new trailer just dropped at midnight for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. This is, of course, the filmmaker’s epic followup to Oscar-winning Oppenheimer. The new trailer shows off a lot more footage from the film, which looks huge in scope, as well as more members of the ensemble cast, including Robert Pattinson… Read More New Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
By John Corrado It’s somehow been twenty years since the release of The Devil Wears Prada in 2006, which netted Meryl Streep one of her many Oscar nominations for her ice queen performance as Miranda Priestly, the Anna Wintour-inspired editor of a New York fashion magazine. Now we have a sequel, The Devil Wears Prada… Read More Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada 2
By John Corrado Titled after the Polish word for “eruption,” as in “volcanic,” Erupcja is an indie movie travelogue set in Poland, that provides a scrappy portrait of modern friendship and relationships, starring none other than pop star Charli XCX. The story follows Charli XCX’s Bethany, a British woman who is on vacation in Warsaw… Read More Movie Review: Erupcja
By John Corrado The tagline for Mother Mary, the latest film from writer-director David Lowery, is “this is not a ghost story.” It’s a bit of a misnomer, because Mother Mary arguably is one. But it does cleverly differentiate this bold effort from Lowery’s low-key, experimental 2017 film A Ghost Story, an understated gem which… Read More Movie Review: Mother Mary
By John Corrado Here we have it, folks. The first trailer has officially been released for Coyote vs. ACME, the live-action and animation hybrid Looney Tunes film that got cancelled by Warner Bros. as a tax write off, before being sold to Ketchup Entertainment. The fact that this film is being released at all is… Read More First Trailer for Coyote vs. ACME!
By John Corrado Amidst the modern biopic boom, the Michael Jackson biopic has finally arrived. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer trilogy, Training Day), and starring the late King of Pop’s real life nephew Jaafar Jackson, who is uncanny as his uncle, Michael is about the rise of Michael Jackson, and really only the rise.… Read More Movie Review: Michael
By John Corrado In Mile End Kicks, the very enjoyable sophomore feature from former Toronto film critic Chandler Levack following her excellent directorial debut I Like Movies, we follow a young music critic trying to figure things out in her early twenties. In many ways, Mike End Kicks plays like a companion piece to I… Read More Movie Review: Mile End Kicks
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just released our first trailer (and poster) for The Dog Stars, the latest film from director Ridley Scott (following his sequel Gladiator II). This one is adapted from a book by Peter Heller, and is a post-apocalyptic survival story starring Jacob Elordi, Guy Pearce, Margaret Qualley and Allison… Read More First Trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars
By John Corrado Disney has just released the final trailer (and poster) for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, following their CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. This feature-length theatrical spinoff from the Disney+ streaming series finds star Pedro Pascal reprising his role, and seems to be sold on the enduring appeal of Grogu – “Baby… Read More Final Trailer for Disney’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
By John Corrado Universal Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Focker-in-Law, which was first unveiled tonight at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. This is the sequel to popular comedies Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, and it’s written and directed by John Hamburg, who co-wrote the previous three. This fourth… Read More First Trailer for Focker-in-Law
By John Corrado Ryan Gosling received his first Oscar nomination two decades ago for playing a school teacher in the indie drama Half Nelson. Now, Gosling is playing a teacher once again in the sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary, which finds the Canadian actor delivering one of his very best performances. Adapted from the novel… Read More Movie Review: Project Hail Mary
By John Corrado The indie dramedy Fantasy Life serves as the impressive feature directorial debut of actor Matthew Shear, doing quadruple duty as writer, director, executive producer, and star. Shear stars in the film as Sam, an anxious young Jewish man in New York City who, in no short order, gets laid off from his… Read More Movie Review: Fantasy Life
By John Corrado The Drama, the latest film from Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, starts off feeling like a typical indie rom-com, complete with a coffee shop “meet-cute” between our protagonists Charlie Thompson (Robert Pattinson) and Emma Harwood (Zendaya). But there’s something off about it. And if you’ve seen Borgli’s previous films Dream Scenario and Sick… Read More Movie Review: The Drama
By John Corrado In his previous documentary, the Oscar-winning 2022 film Navalny, Toronto filmmaker Daniel Roher presented a thrilling portrait of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Now Roher turns his attention to the equally timely topic of artificial intelligence in The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Roher’s latest, which he… Read More Movie Review: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
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