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
By John Corrado The first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash has now been released online, after premiering in theatres in front of The Fantastic Four: First Steps over the weekend. I got to preview the trailer in IMAX before the Fantastic Four press screening last week (I posted my thoughts on X/Twitter). To reiterate,… Read More Trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash
By John Corrado If, on the surface, Oh, Hi! might seem likely your typical indie romantic dramedy, it’s one with a blackly comic twist. Writer-director Sophie Brooks sets the stage for this in the opening scene, with female lead Iris (Molly Gordon) frantically telling her best friend Max (Geraldine Viswanathan) that she “did something bad.”… Read More Movie Review: Oh, Hi!
By John Corrado The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the latest attempt to bring Marvel’s “first family” to the big screen, and is easily the most successful one yet, following previous versions in 2005 (Fantastic Four) and 2007 (The Rise of the Silver Surfer), with a failed reboot in 2015 (Fant4stic). This latest iteration, directed… Read More Movie Review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By John Corrado Watching Eddington, the new movie from writer-director Ari Aster, it’s hard not to think about how much we still haven’t processed from the year 2020, even though it was (shockingly) five years ago now. Aster’s film is set in May of 2020, to be precise, at the height of mask mandates, lockdowns,… Read More Movie Review: Eddington
By John Corrado Disney has just released the full trailer for Tron: Ares. This new look at the sequel to 2010’s underrated Tron: Legacy shows us more of the film’s premise, which involves the computerized world of Tron being brought into our world through an AI entity named Ares (played by Jared Leto). I’m already… Read More New Trailer for Disney’s Tron: Ares
By John Corrado Following last year’s one-two punch of Challengers and Queer, Luca Guadagnino is back this year with After the Hunt. This one is a post-#MeToo psychological thriller starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri. Amazon MGM Studios has just released the first trailer for the film, positioning this as a… Read More First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt
By John Corrado In their debut feature Sorry, Baby, writer-director-star Eva Victor blends elements of comedy and drama to craft a unique, emotionally resonant portrait of a traumatic incident and its aftermath. Victor stars in the film as Agnes, a college literary professor living alone in small town Massachusetts. When the film opens, Agnes’ friend… Read More Movie Review: Sorry, Baby
By John Corrado One of the themes of Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh film in the franchise that arrives 32 years after Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park, is how dinosaurs are no longer as popular as they once were, in the three decades since they were first brought back to life. It would be a… Read More Movie Review: Jurassic World Rebirth
By John Corrado NEON has just put out the first trailer for Sentimental Value, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes. This is director Joachim Trier’s follow up to The Worst Person in the World, reuniting him with star Renate Reinsve. Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning also star. It’s one of my most anticipated films… Read More First Trailer for Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value
By John Corrado Paramount has just put out the first trailer for director Edgar Wright’s latest movie The Running Man. This is a new adaptation of the Stephen King book, which was already turned into a movie in 1987 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wright’s version stars Glen Powell as a man trying to survive in a… Read More Official Trailer for Edgar Wright’s The Running Man
By John Corrado Despite not being scheduled for release until next March, a three minute trailer has just been put out for Project Hail Mary, the new science fiction film from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. It’s based on a book by Andy Weir, who also wrote the book behind The Martian, and stars… Read More First Trailer for Project Hail Mary
By John Corrado In F1: The Movie, director Joseph Kosinski aims to do for race car drivers and Brad Pitt what his 2022 legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick did for fighter pilots and Tom Cruise, and he delivers another crowd-pleasing summer blockbuster. Kosinski’s latest is once again an example of adrenaline-fuelled filmmaking. If Maverick was… Read More Movie Review: F1: The Movie
By John Corrado Here’s a nice surprise; Focus Features has just put out the first teaser trailer for Bugonia, the new film from Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos. This latest work from the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning Poor Things and The Favourite is a remake of the Korean film Save the Green Planet! from 2003. The… Read More Official Teaser Trailer for Bugonia
By John Corrado The Fantastic Four: First Steps is now just a month out from releasing in theatres, and Disney and Marvel have put out the final trailer for the film. This latest attempt to bring Marvel’s “First Family” to the big screen is starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn. This… Read More Final Trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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
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