By John Corrado The first full length trailer has finally been unveiled for Digger, the new dark comedy from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, starring Tom Cruise. This is our first full look at Cruise’s transformation, which involves old man makeup and a Southern accent, in what is being set up as a chance for the movie… Read More New Trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, starring Tom Cruise!
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the new trailer for Dune: Part Three, which premiered today during special IMAX fan events. This longer look at Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film, which is the final chapter in his epic sci-fi saga, fills me with promise for what he has delivered. The scale of it looks… Read More New Trailer for Dune: Part Three!
By John Corrado Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, the actress-turned-filmmaker’s followup to her Oscar-nominated directorial debut The Lost Daughter, is an ambitious genre mashup of horror movie, detective picture, musical, and feminist revisionism. Setting her film in the 1930s, Gyllenhaal uses Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a blueprint for an entirely new reimagining of the story, crafting… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Bride!
By John Corrado Following a successful run in theatres, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is being released on physical media this week, including 4K Ultra HD. Fennell’s adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff, in a sweeping period love story. The film mainly received mixed reviews,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Wuthering Heights
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just released the first trailer for Dune: Part Three. This is Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated finale to his sci-fi trilogy, modelled after author Frank Herbert’s much darker second book, Dune: Messiah. This trailer comes in the wake of star Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar campaign for Marty Supreme, which, ultimately, sadly,… Read More First Trailer for Dune: Part Three!
By John Corrado Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” (those quotation marks are an intentional stylistic choice) is the Promising Young Woman and Saltburn filmmaker’s take on the classic Emily Brontë novel from the 1840s. Fennell’s adaptation is a mildly revisionist and risqué take on Brontë. This is her version of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s doomed love… Read More Movie Review: “Wuthering Heights”
By John Corrado Following a successful run in theatres, Paul Thomas Anderson’s awards favourite One Battle After Another is now available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. I already gave high praise to this one when I saw it in theatres (you can read my full review right here), and also included it on… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: One Battle After Another
By John Corrado There you have it, folks. We have reached the end of 2025. Another year has officially come and gone, which means that it’s time for my countdown of the best movies of 2025. Or, perhaps more correctly, my favourite movies released this year. This includes, in no short order, a trio of… Read More The Best Movies of 2025
By John Corrado Warner Bros. has just revealed the title and released the first teaser for Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s latest film. It’s called Digger, and stars Tom Cruise in the leading role of a man named Digger Rockwell. Everything about this one has been kept very secretive throughout the production, when it was… Read More First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, starring Tom Cruise!
By John Corrado The Conjuring: Last Rites is the fourth and supposedly final film in The Conjuring series that began in 2013, and the ninth (or tenth) film in the horror franchise if you count the various spinoffs we have gotten over the years. The series peaked with the first film and its 2016 sequel,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Conjuring: Last Rites
By John Corrado Director Zach Cregger’s Weapons became one of the biggest breakout hits of the year when it was released over the summer, and the film is now available on physical media including 4K Ultra HD. The film centres around a young teacher (played by Julia Garner) who has all but one of the… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Weapons
By John Corrado One of the summer’s best blockbusters, F1: The Movie is now available on physical media, including 4K Ultra HD. Brad Pitt stars in the film as Sonny Hayes, an aging race car driver brought on to mentor young hotshot Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). I had a great time with this one when… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: F1: The Movie
By John Corrado The runtime for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is 162 minutes. The length of the movie is surely one of the least pertinent things about it, but it’s worth mentioning because of how kinetic the film feels. Nearly two hours in, I was surprised there was less than an hour… Read More Movie Review: One Battle After Another
By John Corrado James Gunn’s Superman is the former Marvel filmmaker’s attempt to reboot the DC Cinematic Universe. In doing so, Gunn is going back to the beginning by introducing a new Superman, with David Corenswet taking over the iconic role from Henry Cavill. Gunn and Corenswet’s new version (and vision) of the character couldn’t… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Superman
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 Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is one of the most acclaimed and financially successful films of the year, finding that sweet spot as a critically lauded original blockbuster that took off with general audiences as well. The film is now available on 4K Ultra HD. Michael B. Jordan stars in the dual role of… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Sinners
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 A Minecraft Movie is the recent box office phenomenon based on the popular video game from Sweden’s Mojang Studios, and it’s one of those films that is basically critic proof. For fans of the game, it’s loaded with Easter Eggs and references, with director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) and a… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: A Minecraft Movie
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
By John Corrado There’s this idea introduced at the start of director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners about how every culture has a different word for people who can play music so powerful that it can transcend spirit worlds and “pierce the veil” between the living and the dead. It’s a theme that is prevalent throughout Blues… Read More Movie Review: Sinners
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