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
By John Corrado Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the third film from director Jane Schoenbrun, is a tribute to 1980s slasher movies channeled through a meta, queer lens. In this way, Camp Miasma serves as an interesting companion piece to Schoenbrun’s haunting 2023 sophomore film I Saw the TV Glow, which also operated… Read More Movie Review: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
By John Corrado Eli Roth’s latest bad-taste splatter flick Ice Cream Man is a passion project that the horror filmmaker has been trying to get made for years, and finally had to self-produce under the banner of his new production company The Horror Section. The result is an idiotic horror comedy (?) that is never… Read More Movie Review: Ice Cream Man
By John Corrado A24 has released the full trailer for Primetime, a movie about To Catch a Predator‘s Chris Hansen starring Robert Pattinson as the controversial reality TV host. Pattinson, who also has roles in The Drama, The Odyssey and Dune: Part Three this year, looks and sounds incredible in the role. This could be… Read More Official Trailer for Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson
By John Corrado When Spider-Man: No Way Home was released back in 2021, it felt like a culmination of things in so many ways, not only as a capper to the Tom Holland trilogy, but also as a thrilling, two-decades-in-the-making crossover event (and celebration) for cinematic Spidey fans. It was always going to be a… Read More Movie Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
By John Corrado Sheep in the Box, named for a passage in The Little Prince, is the latest work from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who has proven himself a master of quietly observed character studies that raise thorny emotional questions. On paper, at least, this makes Kore-eda, serving as both writer and director, a natural fit… Read More Movie Review: Sheep in the Box
By John Corrado The first teaser trailer dropped this morning for The Thomas Crown Affair, Michael B. Jordan’s fresh take on the heist films of the same name from 1968 and 1999, respectively. Jordan is directing this one, and it’s also his first big role since winning the Best Actor Oscar for Sinners earlier this… Read More First Teaser Trailer for Michael B. Jordan’s The Thomas Crown Affair
By John Corrado The first trailer (and poster) for Ebenezer has just been released online, following its unveiling at San Diego’s Comic-Con today. Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) directs this new take on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, starring Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge in what is being hyped up as the actor’s… Read More First Trailer for Ebenezer, starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge…
By John Corrado Her Private Hell is the latest film from Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, whose 2011 thriller Drive starring Ryan Gosling is the closest thing he’s had to a mainstream hit, and a far better movie than anything he’s made since. This is Refn’s first film in a decade since 2016’s The Neon… Read More Movie Review: Her Private Hell
By John Corrado A24 has just dropped the first trailer for Misty Green, a Hollywood satire written and directed by Chris Rock, starring actress Rosalind Eleazar in the titular role as a washed up actress trying to make her comeback. The supporting cast includes Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Adam Driver, as well as Rock himself.… Read More First Trailer for Chris Rock’s Misty Green
By John Corrado The first trailer (and poster) for Avengers: Doomsday has just been released, with tickets going on sale for the film five months in advance. This trailer mainly teases the X-Men officially joining the MCU, and ends confirming the return of another character, though Robert Downey Jr. – now playing villain Doctor Doom… Read More First Trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday…
By John Corrado Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens with glimpses of the Trojan Horse, half-submerged in water and being pulled onto the beach by unsuspecting Trojan guards who view it as a gift. We’ve all heard the story, or “song,” of how Greek soldiers hid inside this giant wooden horse to sneak inside the city… Read More Movie Review: The Odyssey
By John Corrado The appeal of the Minions, those little pill-shaped yellow guys who speak gibberish and made their debut in 2010’s Despicable Me, is that they provide classic cartoon humour. As such, their giggle-inducing antics can be enjoyed across all languages, cultures and age groups, not unlike silent movies themselves. It’s fitting, then, that… Read More Movie Review: Minions & Monsters
By John Corrado We now have our first trailer for I Play Rocky, director Peter Farrelly’s drama about the making of the 1976 film Rocky, starring Anthony Ippolito as Sylvester Stallone. I have to say I’m pleasantly surprised by how promising this trailer looks, presenting the true story behind the making of the iconic boxing… Read More First Trailer for Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky
By John Corrado The first full length trailer has finally been unveiled for Digger, the new dark comedy from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, starring Tom Cruise. This is our first full look at Cruise’s transformation, which involves old man makeup and a Southern accent, in what is being set up as a chance for the movie… Read More New Trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, starring Tom Cruise!
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