By John Corrado When Zootopia came out in 2016, it took a lot of people by surprise (myself included) with how sharp and relevant it was. Set in an anthropomorphic world of talking animals designed like a bustling metropolis, the Disney film delivered a timely message about stereotypes and discrimination between “predators” and “prey,” told… Read More Movie Review: Zootopia 2
By John Corrado Named for the most well known song from the second half of the Broadway musical, Wicked: For Good is the grand finale of director Jon M. Chu’s two-part film adaptation, and it delivers on the dramatic promise of the story. If it’s maybe not quite as good as the first movie, which… Read More Movie Review: Wicked: For Good
By John Corrado Disney has just released the new trailer (and poster) for Hoppers, Pixar’s next original movie opening next year. This one follows a girl who has her consciousness put into a robotic beaver, to infiltrate the animal kingdom. The full cast list has also been unveiled, including Meryl Streep, making her Pixar debut!… Read More New Trailer for Pixar’s Hoppers!
By John Corrado The first teaser trailer has just been released for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. This is the sixth instalment in the franchise, and the second prequel following 2013’s The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. This one is set in Panem over two decades before the first one, and focuses on… Read More First Teaser Trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
By John Corrado Disney has just put out the first teaser trailer (and poster) for their upcoming live action remake of Moana. The studio continuing with the live action updates isn’t shocking, especially after the massive success of Lilo & Stitch earlier this year. But this one is arriving barely a decade after the animated… Read More First Teaser for Disney’s Live-Action Moana
By John Corrado Do you know how hard it is to be yourself? That’s the quippy answer that George Clooney’s movie star character Jay Kelly, the titular protagonist of director Noah Baumbach’s latest film, gives when someone asks him what it feels like to be accused by critics of always playing himself. Of course, Clooney… Read More Movie Review: Jay Kelly
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just released the first teaser trailer (and a poster) for The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is arriving next summer exactly twenty years after the 2006 original. David Frankel returns to direct, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci all reprising their roles. This is… Read More Teaser Trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first teaser trailer (and a new poster) for Pixar’s Toy Story 5, the fifth film in the series that is set to arrive next summer. I’m guessing this teaser will play before Disney’s Zootopia 2 in a few weeks. Set to INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart,” this… Read More First Teaser Trailer for Pixar’s Toy Story 5!
By John Corrado All of Edgar Wright’s movies, known for their kinetic, genre-bending style, have a propulsive, forward momentum to them. This makes him a good fit for The Running Man, a new adaptation of the Stephen King story that was already made into a 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger picture, which basically offers a premise of… Read More Movie Review: The Running Man
By John Corrado Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is the third film in the magic heist franchise, arriving nearly a decade after the second instalment to complete the trilogy that began with 2013’s Now You See Me and its 2016 sequel. The fact that there is some hype for a third movie in… Read More Movie Review: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
By John Corrado In Nuremberg, director James Vanderbilt dramatizes the Nuremberg trials, when members of the Nazi high command were arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity in the wake of World War II. The result is a rock solid old school historical drama that works surprisingly well on every level. Rami Malek… Read More Movie Review: Nuremberg
By John Corrado It’s funny that, in the decade since the blockbuster YA franchises that made them both movie stars wrapped up, the long-awaited big screen pairing of Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence and Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, is an arthouse movie. It speaks to the genuine credibility they have both built for themselves within the… Read More Movie Review: Die My Love
By John Corrado As an actor, Harris Dickinson has already impressed us with his performances in Babygirl and Triangle of Sadness. So it’s fitting that, in his confident feature directorial debut Urchin, a stripped down drama about poverty and addiction, he gives another young performer the chance to take centre stage. That actor is Frank… Read More Movie Review: Urchin
By John Corrado NEON has just released a new trailer for Sentimental Value. This is Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s follow up to The Worst Person in the World, reuniting him with that film’s star Renate Reinsve. I saw this one during TIFF, and it’s easily one of the best movies of the year, if not… Read More New Trailer for Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value
By John Corrado Bugonia is the latest film from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, who has been on a hot streak with recent Oscar heavyweights The Favorite and Poor Things, as well as last year’s anthology film Kinds of Kindness. The common denominator between these films is Emma Stone, who also appears in Lanthimos’ latest, playing… Read More Movie Review: Bugonia
By John Corrado Regretting You is an adaptation of the Colleen Hoover book, that comes to us from The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone. These two things should tell you what to expect from this film, which is a mix of dramatic weepie and teen romance. Morgan Grant (Allison Williams) and her husband… Read More Movie Review: Regretting You
By John Corrado Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska is and was not like other Springsteen albums. Stripped down, acoustic, recorded in a bedroom on a 4-track tape recorder, it was a collection of ten deeply personal songs that had him baring his soul in a poetic, sometimes cryptic way. It’s fitting, then, that director Scott… Read More Movie Review: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
By John Corrado Kiss of the Spider Woman, the new musical film from Dreamgirls director Bill Condon, is a big screen reimagining of the 1992 stage musical from John Kander and Fred Ebb, that was in turn based on a 1976 novel that had a 1985 film adaptation. Set during Argentina’s military dictatorship in 1983, the… Read More Movie Review: Kiss of the Spider Woman
By John Corrado The opening shot of writer-director Mary Bronstein’s intense and suffocating but occasionally darkly funny If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a tight closeup on lead actress Rose Byrne’s face. She is in a doctor’s appointment for her sick daughter (Delaney Quinn), with some disagreement about her treatment plan. The doctor… Read More Movie Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
By John Corrado The main appeal of Good Fortune, the long-awaited feature directorial debut of comic actor Aziz Ansari, is getting to see Keanu Reeves play an angel. This is not to in any way diminish the performances of Ansari himself as a down-on-his-luck gig economy worker, or his co-star Seth Rogen as a rich… Read More Movie Review: Good Fortune
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