Today, VVS Films is releasing Jon Favreau’s wonderful Chef on Blu-ray. With an excellent ensemble cast and a sharp script, this is a delightful and heartfelt comedy that is just as satisfying as a great meal, and one of the best movies of the year so far. We reviewed Chef in theatres back on June 6th, and our overall… Read More Blu-ray Release: Chef
D Films is releasing the pretty good Words and Pictures on Blu-ray today. Although the screenplay is overly clichéd, Clive Owen and Juliette Binoch deliver a pair of good performances, and there are some nicely written scenes celebrating the importance of both forms of artistic expression. We reviewed the film back on July 4th, and our overall… Read More Blu-ray Release: Words and Pictures
After premiering at TIFF last year, VVS Films is releasing McCanick on Blu-ray today. Eugene McCanick (David Morse) is a tough cop just trying to get through his birthday, when he gets the news that Simon Weeks (Cory Monteith) has been released from prison, a street kid who he put away for murder seven years before. The story starts… Read More Blu-ray Release: McCanick
The Boxtrolls – An eOne Films Release http://www.theboxtrolls.com Release Date: September 26th, 2014 Rated PG for some scary scenes Running Time: 97 minutes Graham Annable (director) Anthony Stacchi (director) Irena Brignull (screenplay) Adam Pava (screenplay) Based on the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow Dario Marianelli (music) Ben Kingsley as Archibald Snatcher (voice) Jared… Read More Five Views: The Boxtrolls
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) There is perhaps no greater compliment than to say that I left the screening of Pride with the same feelings I had after seeing The King’s Speech for the first time four years ago. And just like that other retelling of a somewhat lesser known but very important true story, Pride is a gloriously… Read More Review: Pride
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Shawn Levy is a director whose films I often find myself enjoying for various reasons, and his dysfunctional family dramedy This is Where I Leave You is no different. What can I say? I guess I just have a soft spot for his brand of feel good comedies with heart.… Read More Review: This is Where I Leave You
Back on September 9th, D Films released The Double on Blu-ray. Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is a hopelessly shy office worker, slaving away at his job and pining for the attention of cute coworker Hannah (Mia Wasikowska). But then the charismatic James Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) arrives at the office, an exact doppelgänger of Simon James who threatens… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Double
Last week, Sony Pictures released the popular sequel Think Like a Man Too on Blu-ray. When Michael (Terrence Jenkins) and Candace (Regina Hall) decide to get married in Las Vegas with all of their friends in tow, their respective bachelor and bachelorette parties predictably spiral out of control, with the hyperactive and impulsive Cedric (Kevin Hart) threatening… Read More Blu-ray Release: Think Like a Man Too
By John Corrado After making a splash at Fantastic Fest last year, D Films is releasing the creative and intelligently written science fiction thriller Coherence at TIFF Bell Lightbox this weekend. Tickets and showtimes are right here. The setup for the film is deceptively straight forward. Eight friends gather at one of their houses for a dinner party, and it’s… Read More TIFF Bell Lightbox Release: Coherence
Last Tuesday, Marvel released Captain America: The Winter Soldier on Blu-ray. Dark, gritty and also thought provoking, while still managing to breathlessly entertain, this is one of the best blockbusters of the year. We all reviewed the film in theatres back on April 4th, and our overall consensus was: “With exhilarating action sequences and a surprisingly smart screenplay full of… Read More Blu-ray Release: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
By John Corrado We have now officially reached the end of TIFF, with The Imitation Game winning the Grolsch People’s Choice Award, further cementing the film as a surefire Oscar contender. Although I’m not going to miss the crowds and running between venues that have been such a big part of this past week, I am going… Read More Final #TIFF14 Reviews: The Crow’s Egg, Big Game, Men, Women & Children, 99 Homes and Haemoo
By John Corrado We have reached the final weekend of TIFF, which always seems to happen just as soon as I start finding my stride. I saw four movies yesterday at Princess of Wales, starting with a double bill of The Good Lie and Wild, both featuring Reese Witherspoon. The night culminated with me finally seeing St. Vincent.… Read More #TIFF14 Reviews: St. Vincent, The Good Lie, Wild and Before We Go
By John Corrado We are now exactly a week into TIFF, but in some ways it feels like I’m just getting into the swing of things. I mean, I saw a double bill of Infinitely Polar Bear and Love & Mercy today with barely five minutes in between them, which seems like a pretty genuine film festival experience,… Read More #TIFF14 Reviews: Love & Mercy, Infinitely Polar Bear and The Guest
By John Corrado Ethan Hawke gives a solid performance in Good Kill, and does impressive work behind the camera on the documentary Seymour: An Introduction, both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. They are also two of the four movies that I’m profiling today. Ethan Hawke and Seymour Bernstein came on stage… Read More #TIFF14 Reviews: Out of Nature, Good Kill, Seymour: An Introduction and ’71
By John Corrado We have made it through the first weekend of TIFF, which means that now we can get to some of the films that have already played other festivals, including Sundance award winner Whiplash and Telluride standout The Imitation Game. These are just two of the three movies that I’m profiling this time around. The third… Read More #TIFF14 Reviews: The Theory of Everything, Whiplash and The Imitation Game
By John Corrado Aside from all the star studded premieres and awards season hopefuls that now make up the bulk of TIFF, the festival still offers some great discoveries, and this year one of those films is the very good little Canadian drama We Were Wolves, which is premiering tomorrow night. This is a film that… Read More #TIFF14: Jordan Canning, Peter Mooney and Steve Cochrane on We Were Wolves
By John Corrado There is an interesting serendipity to the fact that my reviews of While We’re Young and My Old Lady have ended up on the same day. These two films that both premiered this weekend at TIFF couldn’t be more different, but their titles contrast and compliment each other quite nicely. Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young was… Read More #TIFF14 Reviews: While We’re Young and My Old Lady
By John Corrado I’ve been waiting two weeks to tell everyone about Nightcrawler, and now that the first weekend of TIFF is upon us and the embargo has lifted after Friday night’s world premiere, I can finally tell you that the film is an absolute stunner. And then there’s the glorious Pride, which is already on my… Read More #TIFF14 Reviews: Nightcrawler and Pride
By John Corrado The 39th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival starts tonight with the world premiere of David Dobkin’s legal drama The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall. The film kicks off eleven days of movies that will be playing in the city, including the usual juxtaposition between some of the biggest… Read More #TIFF14 Reviews: The Price We Pay, In Her Place, The Valley Below, We Were Wolves
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