By John Corrado *** (out of 4) At the start of Maleficent, we are told by narrator Janet McTeer that things are going to be different from the story we already know. And right from the opening scenes, we realize that this isn’t quite the same version of Sleeping Beauty that was first told by… Read More Review: Maleficent
By John Corrado *** (out of 4) X-Men: Days of Future Past is predominantly a sequel to the 2011 prequel First Class, that also serves as a continuation of where the original trilogy left off in 2006 with The Last Stand, and could very well lead into a reboot of the entire series. The fact… Read More Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Paramount is releasing a new edition of How To Train Your Dragon on Blu-ray today, before the sequel opens on June 13th. Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) is an innocent Viking who can’t bring himself to kill a dragon, much to the dismay of his father (Gerard Butler). But then he befriends Toothless, a lovable dragon who… Read More Blu-ray Release: How To Train Your Dragon
Last week, Paramount released a new edition of the 1963 western McLintock!, fully restored on Blu-ray. With their daughter (Stefanie Powers) coming home from college, proud cattle baron George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) is reunited with his estranged wife Katherine (Maureen O’Hara) after several years, and the bickering couple picks up right where they left… Read More Blu-ray Release: McLintock!
The Birder – A Dot Film Company Release http://www.thebirdermovie.com Release Date: May 23rd, 2014 @ The Carlton Cinema Rated 14A for substance abuse Running time: 85 minutes Ted Bezaire (dir.) Ted Bezaire (writer) Michael Stasko (writer) Dylan Heming (music) Isabelle Noel (music) Richard Pell (music) Tom Cavanagh as Ron Spencer Mark Rendall as Ben Jamie… Read More Five Views: The Birder
By John Corrado After premiering at Hot Docs a few weeks back, 112 Weddings is opening today at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto, and will be playing numerous times over the next week. Below are my thoughts on the film, originally published during the festival. Documentarian Doug Block has filmed over a hundred weddings, leaving… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: 112 Weddings
By John Corrado A showcase for the best of LGBT cinema, the 24th edition of Inside Out launches tonight with the Canadian premiere of the beautiful Brazilian romance The Way He Looks, fresh off of winning the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the Berlin Film Festival. Throughout the next eleven days, Inside Out will… Read More Previewing the Inside Out Film Festival
About Last Night – A Sony Pictures Release http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/aboutlastnight/ Blu-ray Release Date: May 20th, 2014 Rated 14A for mature themes and sexual content Running time: 100 minutes Steve Pink (dir.) Leslye Headland (screenplay) Based on the play Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet Marcus Miller (music) Kevin Hart as Bernie Michael Ealy as Danny Regina… Read More Blu-ray Review: About Last Night
Today, Sony Pictures is releasing The Monuments Men on Blu-ray & DVD. Directed by and starring George Clooney alongside an impressive ensemble cast, the fine film tells the story of an unlikely group tasked with retrieving works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II. We reviewed The Monuments Men when the film… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Monuments Men
The cult classic short George Lucas in Love is being released for the first time on iTunes today, courtesy of Level Film. Taking place in 1967, the film follows George Lucas (Martin Hynes) as he struggles to finish his screenplay “Space Wheat,” before a fellow student (Lisa Jakub) with an iconic hairstyle and other quirky… Read More Digital Release: George Lucas in Love
By John Corrado *** (out of 4) Can people who have kids ever return to their days of staying up late and partying, or will they always become the overtired neighbours begging the college kids to “keep it down?” This is the central question asked in Neighbors, a raunchy comedy that opened in a surprise… Read More Review: Neighbors
Godzilla – A Warner Bros. Pictures Release http://www.godzillamovie.com Release Date: May 16th, 2014 Rated PG for frightening scenes and violence Running time: 123 minutes Gareth Edwards (dir.) Max Borenstein (screenplay) David Callaham (story) Alexandre Desplat (music) Bryan Cranston as Joe Brody Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Ford Brody Ken Watanabe as Dr. Ichiro Serizawa Elizabeth Olsen as… Read More Five Views: Godzilla
Million Dollar Arm – A Walt Disney Pictures Release http://movies.disney.com/million-dollar-arm Release Date: May 16th, 2014 Rated PG for mature themes Running time: 124 minutes Craig Gillespie (dir.) Thomas McCarthy (screenplay) A.R. Rahman (music) Jon Hamm as JB Bernstein Pitobash as Amit Suraj Sharma as Rinku Madhur Mittal as Dinesh Aasif Mandvi as Aash Lake Bell… Read More Five Views: Million Dollar Arm
Today, VVS Films is releasing the aptly titled romantic comedy That Awkward Moment on Blu-ray. After Mikey (Michael B. Jordan) finds out his wife (Jessica Lucas) is cheating on him, his buddies Jason (Zac Efron) and Daniel (Miles Teller) make a pact that they are staying single with him. But their promise predictably gets broken… Read More Blu-ray Release: That Awkward Moment
Today, Paramount is releasing the 2002 animated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron for the first time on Blu-ray. With narration by Matt Damon, the film tells the story of a wild horse who is captured by a colonel (James Cromwell) who tries to break him, before regaining his freedom alongside a young Lakota brave,… Read More Blu-ray Release: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Paramount is releasing the 1986 classic Crocodile Dundee for the first time on Blu-ray today, in a double pack with the 1988 followup Crocodile Dundee II. The first one follows newspaper reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) who travels to Australia to meet eccentric local Mick “Crocodile” Dundee (Paul Hogan). But when he saves her life… Read More Blu-ray Release: Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II Double Feature
By John Corrado After winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Short, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life is opening tomorrow at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema and will be playing a few more times until May 20th, co-presented by the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. Tickets can be found right here, and the… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
By John Corrado After premiering at the festival back in 2013, Teenage is opening today for a short run at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, and will be playing throughout the week until May 15th. Tickets can be found right here. Directed by Matt Wolf, Teenage mixes archival footage and grainy reenactments to chart the… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: Teenage
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – A Columbia Pictures Release http://www.theamazingspiderman.com/site/ Release Date: May 2nd, 2014 Rated PG for violence Running time: 142 minutes Marc Webb (dir.) Alex Kurtzman (screenplay) Roberto Orci (screenplay) Jeff Pinkner (screenplay) Hans Zimmer (music) Johnny Marr (music) Pharrell Williams (music) Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man/Peter Parker Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy Jamie… Read More Five Views: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
This week, 20th Century Fox is releasing the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds for the first time on Blu-ray. After excitedly arriving at college, likeable nerds Lewis (Robert Carradine) and Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) find themselves mercilessly picked on by Stan (Ted McGinley) and his gang of dumb jocks. Determined to no longer put up… Read More Blu-ray Release: Revenge of the Nerds
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