By John Corrado Actor Michael Angarano directs and stars in Sacramento, a dramedy about masculinity and fatherhood that hits a lot of the expected beats, but still has enough of a scrappy charm to it. Angarano stars as Rickey, an immature man-child in LA who has recently lost his father, when he comes crashing back… Read More Movie Review: Sacramento
By John Corrado The new trailer has just dropped for Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise in what is said to be his final mission as Ethan Hunt. Everybody should already be sold on this movie. The Mission: Impossible series has turned into one of our most reliable blockbuster franchises, with… Read More New Trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
By John Corrado Focus Features has just unveiled the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, the filmmaker’s first film since 2023’s underrated Asteroid City. This one is touted as being an espionage thriller, but the trailer reveals that it will still be very much in line with Anderson’s usual artistic style. We get… Read More First Trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme
By John Corrado Disney has just released the first trailer for Tron: Ares, the long-awaited follow up to the 2010 legacy sequel Tron: Legacy. This one concerns a computer program, Ares, getting loose in the real world. A sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film Tron, Tron: Legacy was a visually dazzling experience with an awesome… Read More First Trailer for Disney’s Tron: Ares
By John Corrado The Luckiest Man in America is the based-on-a-true-story tale of Michael Larson (played by Paul Walter Hauser), an ice cream truck driver from Ohio who had an incredible winning streak on the game show Press Your Luck in the 1980s. Like other contemporary films about live TV from a similar era such… Read More Movie Review: The Luckiest Man in America
By John Corrado Director James Griffiths’ entirely enjoyable dramedy The Ballad of Wallis Island opens with musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) arriving on the remote Wallis Island to play what he believes is an intimate solo gig. Herb is formerly one half of the fictional folk music duo McGwyer & Mortimer, and has been brought… Read More Movie Review: The Ballad of Wallis Island
By John Corrado In her feature debut, the crowd-pleasing dramedy Bob Trevino Likes It, writer-director Tracie Laymon crafts a surprisingly tender portrait of an unlikely friendship, drawn from her own life. Lily Trevino (Barbie Ferreira) is a bubbly but insecure young woman who has a strained relationship with her self-absorbed father Robert (French Stewart). When… Read More Movie Review: Bob Trevino Likes It
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the first trailer for One Battle After Another, the highly anticipated new film from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. Leonardo DiCaprio leads the stacked cast, which also includes Regina Hall, Benicio Del Toro and Teyana Taylor, with Sean Penn as the neo-Nazi antagonist in what is reported to… Read More First Trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another
By John Corrado When Magazine Dreams premiered at Sundance in 2023, it was touted as a defining role for Jonathan Majors, who was instantly in the Oscar conversation when Searchlight Pictures picked up the film and positioned it for an awards run. And then everything fell apart. Majors was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend (and… Read More Movie Review: Magazine Dreams
By John Corrado Disney has built a reliable business model over the past decade around creating live-action remakes of their various animated classics. The latest such film is Snow White, their beleaguered reimagining of 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which holds an extra special place in the studio’s history as their first ever… Read More Movie Review: Disney’s Snow White
By John Corrado Disney has just released the brand new “official” trailer for Pixar’s upcoming film Elio. This trailer shows off a lot more of the plot behind this animated sci-fi action comedy, including the friendship between the titular Elio (voiced by Yonas Kibreab) and an alien named Glordon (Remy Edgerly). Set to Queen’s “Don’t… Read More New Trailer for Disney and Pixar’s Elio
By John Corrado Following the poster debut yesterday, A24 has just released the first trailer for writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists. This is Song’s highly anticipated second feature following her acclaimed, Oscar-nominated 2023 debut Past Lives. This one is a romantic comedy starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal. Johnson plays a New York matchmaker,… Read More First Trailer for Celine Song’s Materialists
By John Corrado Director Ann Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness? is set in a futuristic version of Canada, where the progressive government has mandated that everybody “voluntarily” gives up their life at the age of fifty for the sake of the planet. It’s a chilling premise that makes for a mostly engaging if… Read More Movie Review: Can I Get a Witness?
By John Corrado Apple Original Films and Warner Bros. have just released the full trailer for director Joseph Kosinski’s Formula One movie F1, which will be given a theatrical release on June 27th. Kosinski, of course, is the director behind Top Gun: Maverick, and this is his first film since that box office smash. The… Read More Full Trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s F1
By John Corrado Distributor NEON has just released the first teaser trailer for director Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck, which they acquired following last year’s TIFF, where it won the festival’s coveted People’s Choice Award. Tom Hiddleston stars as the titular Chuck, alongside a host of others. Like the poster that was released a… Read More First Teaser Trailer for The Life of Chuck
By John Corrado Disney has just released the full trailer for the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. This is our first full look at the film, which is coming to theatres on May 23rd. The original 2002 animated film is a fan favourite, and already pretty perfect as it is, so this remake has… Read More Trailer for Disney’s Live-Action Lilo & Stitch
By John Corrado Black Bag is the new sexy spy thriller from director Steven Soderbergh, with an ensemble cast of characters dealing with the prospect of a double agent in their midst while navigating their own personal relationships. Michael Fassbender stars as George Woodhouse, an English spy married to fellow agent Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). In… Read More Movie Review: Black Bag
By John Corrado The latest Toronto-set psychodrama from Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, Seven Veils reimagines the opera Salome through the lens of trauma and the #MeToo movement. It’s also perhaps The Sweet Hereafter filmmaker’s strongest late-career effort. Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) is a young theatre director who is hired by the Canadian Opera Company to remount the… Read More Movie Review: Seven Veils
By John Corrado Director Alex Parkinson dramatizes his own 2019 documentary of the same name in Last Breath, a decent survival thriller following a group of deep sea divers rescuing a trapped crew mate. The first act is all about introducing the characters, a group of saturation divers repairing a stretch of pipeline deep below… Read More Movie Review: Last Breath
By John Corrado Fresh off the surprise success of serial killer thriller Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins now returns with a different kind of horror movie in The Monkey. This time it’s a horror comedy, adapted from a Stephen King short story of the same name. Re-teaming with Longlegs distributor NEON, Perkins’ latest finds him playing… Read More Movie Review: The Monkey
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