By John Corrado The second feature from Canadian director Matthew Rankin, following his highly stylized Mackenzie King biopic The Twentieth Century, Universal Language is an absurdist dramedy set in an alternate version of Manitoba where everybody speaks Farsi instead of English. It’s a farcical, high-concept setup that the director not only fully commits himself to (even the signs… Read More Movie Review: Universal Language
By John Corrado The first trailer has just been released for Jurassic World Rebirth. This is the sixth film in the Jurassic franchise, following the first three Park and World movies. This one looks like a bit of a reboot, with Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali taking over the starring roles. Directed by… Read More First Trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth
By John Corrado This morning, Disney unveiled the teaser trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, officially bringing Marvel’s “First Family” into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This version stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing. They… Read More Teaser Trailer for Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By John Corrado In his latest film I’m Still Here, which received a surprise Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) offers a portrait of life during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s through the lens of mainly being a family drama. Salles’ film serves as a biography of… Read More Movie Review: I’m Still Here
By John Corrado Warner Bros. just released the new, full-length trailer for director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Coogler is the director behind Black Panther, Creed and Frutivale Station, and Sinners is his latest collaboration with star Michael B. Jordan. This time around, Jordan stars in a duel role, playing twin brothers. The new trailer shows off… Read More New Trailer for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners
By John Corrado Pansy Deacon (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the lead character in British writer-director Mike Leigh’s new movie Hard Truths, is a bitter woman with a chip perpetually on her shoulder. She is miserable every time she steps out into the world, but not much happier at home either, where she is constantly nagging after husband… Read More Movie Review: Hard Truths
By John Corrado Flight Risk is the new movie directed by Mel Gibson. It’s the actor-turned-filmmaker’s first since the World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge in 2016, which provided a stunning Hollywood comeback for him when he received a Best Director Oscar nomination. Gibson’s latest is also his most constrained and straight-forward directorial effort yet;… Read More Movie Review: Flight Risk
By John Corrado Here’s a nice surprise. Distributor NEON has released the official redband trailer for Finn Wolfhard’s Hell of a Summer, the summer camp slasher that the Stranger Things actor co-directed with friend Billy Byrk. Wolfhard and Byrk also cast themselves in supporting roles, while Fred Hechinger – whose stock as an actor has… Read More Trailer Released for Finn Wolfhard’s Hell of a Summer
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the new trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, the Korean director’s follow up to his Oscar-winning Parasite. This one stars Robert Pattinson as a lonely man who signs up to be an “expendable” on a dangerous space mission; every time he dies, they just print out… Read More New Trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17
By John Corrado Distributor NEON has just released the new full-length redband trailer for director Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey. This trailer follows the new poster that was released yesterday, which cheekily highlighted all of the gory deaths that will be depicted in the film. The marketing for this one so far has been on point.… Read More New Trailer for Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey
By John Corrado The first English-language feature from Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar, The Room Next Door is an involving and morally complex – if occasionally uneven – melodrama, built around a pair of compelling performances from Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The film (which was awarded the Golden Lion at Venice) opens with Moore’s Ingrid,… Read More Movie Review: The Room Next Door
By John Corrado It’s rare to come across a film that feels like it is reinventing the form. Yet, in bringing Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys to the screen, director RaMell Ross takes a radically new approach to adapting a novel; he presents the entire film from the perspective of his characters, through unique,… Read More Movie Review: Nickel Boys
By John Corrado Director Maura Delpero’s Vermgilio, Italy’s International Feature submission for the Oscars, is set at the end of World War II in 1944, but the war is happening entirely offscreen. Instead, this is a slow-burn slice-of-life portrait of a large family in the mountain village of Vermiglio. The patriarch of the family is Cesare… Read More Movie Review: Vermiglio
By John Corrado Director James Mangold arguably perfected the modern biopic structure with Walk the Line, his Oscar-winning 2005 portrait of country singer Johnny Cash. Mangold now returns to this genre and time period with his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (in fact, Cash is even featured here as well, as a contemporary of Dylan’s). Dylan, one… Read More Movie Review: A Complete Unknown
By John Corrado Wicked is the long-in-development film adaptation of the Broadway musical from over two decades ago, with director Jon M. Chu (In the Heights, Crazy Rich Asians) finally bringing this Wizard of Oz prequel story to the screen. Well, Act One of it anyways; the film is a two-parter, with Act Two (officially… Read More Movie Review: Wicked
By John Corrado Nosferatu is the fourth film from director Robert Eggers, and it finds him reimagining F.W. Murnau’s German Expressionist film of the same name from 1922. This passion project from Eggers has shades of his 2015 debut The Witch, but on a much larger scale. Whether you view this as a remake of the Murnau… Read More Movie Review: Nosferatu
By John Corrado Writer-director Halina Reijn’s Babygirl is a compelling modern twist on the erotic thriller, that centres around a woman with power who gets turned on by giving it up, as she embarks on an inappropriate workplace relationship with a male intern. These fascinating power dynamics are portrayed by Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson,… Read More Movie Review: Babygirl
By John Corrado The third film in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, adapted from the SEGA video games, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 finds director Jeff Fowler delivering another hybrid of live action and animation that feels very consistent with the first two. In other words, it’s fun. Sure, these aren’t cinematic masterpieces by any stretch.… Read More Movie Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the first teaser trailer for James Gunn’s Superman, starring David Corenswet as Clark Kent. We also get first glimpses at Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luther, and of course Superman’s dog Krypto. It feels a bit more like a sizzle reel with the… Read More Teaser Trailer for James Gunn’s Superman
By John Corrado The most surprising thing about Mufasa: The Lion King, which serves as both a prequel and sequel to Disney’s 2019 “live action” remake of their 1994 animated classic The Lion King, is that it’s directed by Barry Jenkins. Jenkins is best known for the Oscar-winning dramas Moonlight and If Beale Street Could… Read More Movie Review: Mufasa: The Lion King
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