By John Corrado Paramount Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Roofman, starring Channing Tatum in the true story of an escaped convict hiding out in a Toys “R” Us. At least the way the trailer sells it, it looks like the story has been turned into a quirky crime comedy. Kirsten Dunst,… Read More First Trailer for Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman
By John Corrado Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have just released the new trailer for Weapons. This is director Zach Cregger’s followup to his breakout horror hit Barbarian, starring Julia Garner as a school teacher dealing with every kid from her classroom going missing one night. It looks disturbing and incredibly well crafted. Cregger’s… Read More New Trailer for Zach Cregger’s Weapons
By John Corrado NEON has just put out the first trailer for Splitsville, the new relationship comedy from director, co-writer and co-star Michael Angelo Covino. This is Covino’s second collaboration with co-writer and co-star Kyle Marvin, following their promising feature debut The Climb. Covino and Marvin’s latest (which premiered out of competition at Cannes in… Read More First Trailer for Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville
By John Corrado The first trailer has just been released for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. This is, of course, the Bruce Springsteen biopic (kind of unmistakable now that they added his name to the title), starring Jeremy Allen White as the iconic musician. It’s directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart). We get a glimpse… Read More First Trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
By John Corrado Elio, the very sweet new animated film from Pixar, uses the age old question of “are we alone in the universe?” to explore the very real topic of loneliness, namely that of the titular Elio (voiced by Yonas Kibreab). Elio is a space-obsessed kid who has been left living on a military… Read More Movie Review: Elio
By John Corrado Paramount has just put out the full-length trailer for The Naked Gun. This is director Akiva Schaffer’s reboot of the classic Leslie Nielsen police spoofs, starring Liam Neeson as the son of Nielsen’s Frank Drebin. Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser are also in the cast. There are a number of solid… Read More Official Trailer for The Naked Gun
By John Corrado Not to be outdone by Disney, who have made a business out of releasing live-action remakes of their beloved animated films, DreamWorks and Universal now get in on the (live) action with How to Train Your Dragon. The studio’s first live-action update of a DreamWorks Animation film, Dragon is mostly a beat-for-beat… Read More Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon
By John Corrado A24 has just released the official trailer for Eddington, the latest film from Ari Aster. Joaquin Phoenix stars in the “modern Western” as a local sheriff, running for mayor of the titular Texas town against the incumbent (played by Pedro Pascal). It’s also set during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the summer of… Read More Official Trailer for Ari Aster’s Eddington
By John Corrado In Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song delivered one of the greatest directorial debuts of all time, reinvigorating a love triangle premise to offer a deeply moving exploration of longing and potentially meeting the right person at the wrong time. Expectations have been set incredibly high for Song’s sophomore feature Materialists, which finds… Read More Movie Review: Materialists
By John Corrado The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson’s twelfth feature film, and by this point, you either vibe with his style or you don’t. Anderson’s latest is another immaculately designed work that doesn’t find him straying from his signature style, but rather doubling down on it; the panning camera moves, the intricate, dollhouse-like sets,… Read More Movie Review: The Phoenician Scheme
By John Corrado Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, we get Dangerous Animals, a clever, entertaining spin on killer shark movies from director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones). In Byrne’s film, the sharks aren’t the real villains, and the main threat is actually a different type of predator;… Read More Movie Review: Dangerous Animals
By John Corrado The real life exorcism of Emma Schmidt is said to be the most well documented case of an exorcism and demonic possession in North America. Which is why it’s so disappointing that The Ritual, director David Midell’s dramatized version of these events from nearly a hundred years ago, is so poorly handled.… Read More Movie Review: The Ritual
By John Corrado Universal Pictures has just unveiled the first trailer for Wicked: For Good, the highly anticipated followup to last year’s Wicked: Part One. The first film was obviously a box office sensation and an awards juggernaut, and this trailer indicates that director Jon M. Chu has nailed Part Two as well. This is… Read More First Trailer Released for Wicked: For Good
By John Corrado Set between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and John Wick: Chapter 4, Ballerina (full title From the World of John Wick: Ballerina) is the first spinoff film in the action franchise. The film is directed by Len Wiseman, taking over the mantle from original series director Chad Stahelski, who… Read More Movie Review: From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
By John Corrado Two Women, the latest film from Quebec director Chloé Robichaud (Sarah Prefers to Run), is a raunchy, female-centric comedy that serves as a modern remake of Claude Fournier’s 1970 film Two Women in Gold. Fournier’s original remains an influential piece of Quebec cinema, and Robichaud’s version, which has been adapted and updated… Read More Movie Review: Two Women
By John Corrado Bring Her Back is the unnerving sophomore feature from Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, who began their career as YouTubers (under the pseudonym RackaRacka), before branching out and getting noticed with their A24-backed directorial debut Talk to Me. The same studio, A24, is behind their latest effort as well, which finds… Read More Movie Review: Bring Her Back
By John Corrado Agathe Robinson (Camille Rutherford) is an aspiring romance novelist who works as a shopkeeper at Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Company. She fantasizes about Jane Austen, and longs for her own love story, but is perpetually single, and struggling with writer’s block. Agathe is the protagonist of writer-director Laura Piani’s delightful new romantic… Read More Movie Review: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
By John Corrado Spending time with future in-laws can be awkward. Add an interfaith dynamic – and a freak accident – into the mix, and you have the recipe for Bad Shabbos, the entertaining and distinctly Jewish indie comedy from director Daniel Robbins. The film, which won the Audience Award at Tribeca in 2024, centres… Read More Movie Review: Bad Shabbos
By John Corrado Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the eighth entry in the action franchise, and it’s fashioned as a sort of swan song for the series that began nearly thirty years ago in 1996. Over the course of this franchise – especially in the last three directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who returns… Read More Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By John Corrado Sony Pictures has just put out the first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing. This is the director’s followup to his Oscar-winning The Whale, and it looks much lighter in tone than that film, or really any of Aronofsky’s previous works (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, etc.). The tone… Read More Trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing
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