By John Corrado We now have the final trailer for Wicked: For Good. This is director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Act Two of the musical, with his Wicked: Part One lighting up the box office last year and becoming a major Oscar contender. Universal is clearly hoping to recapture that magic with For Good.… Read More Final Trailer for Wicked: For Good!
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first poster and teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, the big screen continuation of the popular Disney Plus series. Will this translate into being a box office hit? This is the first theatrically released Star Wars movie since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019.… Read More Teaser Trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
By John Corrado The Long Walk is the long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novella of the same name, an early work by the author that became part of a 1985 short story collection published under the pen name Richard Bachman. That that collection also included The Running Man and Rage, a school shooting story… Read More Movie Review: The Long Walk
By John Corrado Splitsville is the new relationship comedy from director Michael Angelo Covino and his real life friend Kyle Marvin. The two previously teamed up to make the 2020 film The Climb, a portrait of male friendship told with impressive technical precision through a series of long takes and fluid camerawork. Covino and Marvin… Read More Movie Review: Splitsville
By John Corrado Searchlight Pictures has just given us our first look at Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On?, the director and actor’s follow up to Meastro and A Star is Born. Cooper’s latest is a character dramedy starring Will Arnett as a guy going through a divorce (Laura Dern plays ex-wife), who turns to… Read More Teaser Trailer for Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On?
By John Corrado Focus Features has now released the first teaser trailer for Hamnet. This is Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloe Zhao’s return to the awards season race, after her Marvel foray Eternals. This one stars Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare and Jessie Buckley as his wife Agnes, telling the tragic story that inspired Hamlet. Their… Read More Teaser Trailer for Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet
By John Corrado Ne Zha II is the Chinese blockbuster that became the highest grossing animated film of all time, beating the record previously set by Inside Out 2 just last year, almost entirely from what it grossed in China alone. The film had previously been released in North American theatres earlier this year, and now we… Read More Movie Review: Ne Zha II
By John Corrado Honey Don’t! is the second solo film from director Ethan Coen, who first split from his brother Joel to make last year’s crime comedy Drive-Away Dolls, a collaboration with his wife and co-writer Tricia Cooke. This latest, which was also co-written by Coen and Cooke and is the second in their planned… Read More Movie Review: Honey Don’t!
By John Corrado Netflix has just put out the first trailer for Ballad of a Small Player, the latest film from German director Edward Berger. Berger’s last two films were, of course, the Oscar heavyweights Conclave and All Quiet on the Western Front, so expectations are naturally high for this one. Colin Farrell stars as… Read More Trailer for Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player
By John Corrado Bob Odenkirk returns as contract killer and family man Hutch Mansell in Nobody 2, the pretty good sequel to the 2021 pandemic-era action flick that did modestly well in theatres and found even more of an audience on VOD. And this slightly higher-budgeted followup kinda feels like an old school action movie… Read More Movie Review: Nobody 2
By John Corrado A24 has just released the first trailer for Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet as aspiring ping pong player Marty Mauser. It’s easily one of the most hotly anticipated films of the rest of the year, and this trailer (set to “Forever Young”) suggests the film will live up to the hype. This… Read More First Trailer for Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet
By John Corrado Weapons, the ambitious new horror movie from director Zach Cregger who burst onto the scene with Barbarian in 2022, opens with a killer hook. One night, at 2:17am, seventeen kids all woke up, got out of bed, walked out their front doors, and disappeared. At the start of the film, we see… Read More Movie Review: Weapons
By John Corrado My Mother’s Wedding, which actually premiered at TIFF two years ago under the original title North Star, is the directorial debut of actress Kristin Scott Thomas, who also appears in the film as the titular mother getting married. But this uneven comedy-drama mainly focuses on her character Diana Frost’s three adult daughters;… Read More Movie Review: My Mother’s Wedding
By John Corrado A belated sequel to Disney’s 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as mother and daughter who switch places with each other, could have easily gone off the rails. Especially since that film was already a remake of an earlier movie from 1976 (starring Jodie Foster),… Read More Movie Review: Freakier Friday
By John Corrado Searchlight Pictures has revealed our first look at Rental Family, which is shaping up to be one of the hottest titles of the fall. Brendan Fraser, fresh off his Oscar win for The Whale, stars in the film as a washed up American actor living in Japan, who gets hired by a… Read More First Trailer for Rental Family, starring Brendan Fraser
By John Corrado Netflix has just put out the first teaser trailer for their upcoming film Jay Kelly. This is the new movie from filmmaker Noah Baumbach, his first since the divisive, big budget White Noise in 2022. This one is poised to follow the path of Marriage Story in 2019, and put him squarely… Read More Teaser Trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly
By John Corrado 20th Century Studios has just put out the first trailer and poster for Ella McCay. This is the new dramedy from writer-director James L. Brooks, his first since How Do You Know in 2009. I’m obviously a big fan of Brooks’ classics like Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good As… Read More First Trailer for James L. Brooks’ Ella McCay
By John Corrado Disney’s Zootopia was a wonderful surprise back in 2016, and it’s become a fan favourite over the years, so a sequel was inevitable. Now we are finally getting one nearly a decade later with Zootopia 2, and the studio has just put out a brand new trailer for the film. This sequel… Read More New Trailer for Disney’s Zootopia 2!
By John Corrado How do you reboot the classic police spoof The Naked Gun without its star Leslie Nielsen, especially when the spoof genre itself has sadly withered away over the past few decades? You hire Liam Neeson to take over the role. Yes, that Neeson, who is best known as a dramatic actor and… Read More Movie Review: The Naked Gun
By John Corrado A couple find themselves being increasingly bound together in Together, the new body horror rom-com from writer-director Michael Shanks. But the real selling point of the film is the casting of actual couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, whose chemistry adds an extra layer of interest. The real-life married couple star as… Read More Movie Review: Together
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