By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth and latest entry into the long running series, follows all the check points of the previous franchise entries. We’ve got a tangled web of a plot that involves lots of double crossings and surprise twists, witty banter between the characters, and… Read More Review: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
By John Corrado This week, 20th Century Fox is releasing DreamWorks Animation’s surprise hit Home on Blu-ray. After our planet is taken over by aliens, Tip (Rihanna) ends up separated from her mom (Jennifer Lopez), and is travelling across the country to get her back. When Oh (Jim Parsons) becomes an outlaw amongst his race,… Read More Blu-ray Release: Home
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When the Indonesian military ordered the killing of anyone considered a “communist” in 1965, nearly a million people were rounded up and brutally murdered by death squad leaders, in a mass genocide that remains a blight on their country, which the government would still rather keep out of the history books.… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: The Look of Silence
By John Corrado Last week, 20th Century Fox released the recent sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on Blu-ray. With the highly opinionated Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) acting as his advisor, overeager manager Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) is trying to juggle the purchase of a new property to expand the hotel with preparations for his upcoming marriage, while also feeling… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
By John Corrado Last week, 20th Century Fox released X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut on Blu-ray, an extended version of last year’s summer blockbuster. Through two previously unreleased scenes and a lot of alternate takes, this new cut includes about fifteen minutes of extra footage, mainly to expand a subplot involving Rogue (Anna Paquin). Although your willingness… Read More Blu-ray Release: X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) I saw a lot of good films at Hot Docs, but few have stuck with me the same way as All the Time in the World, the engaging and unexpectedly touching story of a family making a difference by choosing to live more simply. The film opens at the… Read More Bloor Cinema Release: All the Time in the World
Ant-Man – A Walt Disney Studios Release http://marvel.com/antman Release Date: July 17th, 2015 Rated PG for language and some scary scenes Running Time: 117 minutes Peyton Reed (director) Edgar Wright (screenplay) Joe Cornish (screenplay) Adam McKay (screenplay) Paul Rudd (screenplay) Christophe Beck (music) Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man Michael Douglas as Dr. Hank Pym Evangeline… Read More Three Views: Ant-Man
By John Corrado Today, The Black Stallion is being released on Blu-ray, through Criterion. After surviving a shipwreck that claims the life of his father (Hoyt Axton) in 1946, Alec (Kelly Reno) is left stranded on an island, developing a close bond with the wild stallion that survived alongside him. When they are rescued, the boy… Read More Criterion Release: The Black Stallion
By John Corrado This week, Mongrel Media is releasing the recent surprise horror hit It Follows on all home entertainment platforms, including iTunes. After having sex with her boyfriend (Jake Weary), 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe) becomes infected by a mysterious supernatural entity, leaving her plagued with disturbing visions of people chasing her, that can only be stopped by having sex… Read More Digital Release: It Follows
By John Corrado Today, Mongrel Media is releasing the critically acclaimed science fiction thriller Ex Machina on all home entertainment platforms, including iTunes. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is a bright computer programmer who is invited to the private estate of reclusive coding genius Nathan (Oscar Isaac), to complete the Turing Test for his latest invention, a… Read More Digital Release: Ex Machina
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Who knew that one of the best “protecting the American president” films would come from Finland? But Big Game is a lot of fun, and more than able to hold its own alongside many of the summer blockbusters being released. After premiering during Midnight Madness at TIFF last… Read More Review: Big Game
By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the excellent documentary Merchants of Doubt on Blu-ray. The film fascinatingly explores how fake scientists and sleazy public relations firms are hired by companies and political parties to cover up potentially harmful truths, from the tobacco industry’s unscrupulous approach to keeping toxic cigarettes on the market,… Read More Blu-ray Release: Merchants of Doubt
By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing the excellent and highly recommended thriller ’71 on Blu-ray. The year is 1971, and after his troop is deployed to a small town in Belfast right on the border of the Protestant and Catholic conflicts, a young soldier (Jack O’Connell) gets lost in the increasingly violent riots and… Read More Blu-ray Release: ’71
By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing Danny Collins on DVD, a nice surprise from earlier in the year. Danny Collins (Al Pacino) is an aging pop star who has grown dissatisfied of his affluent life of drugs and sex, when his manager (Christopher Plummer) gives him an undelivered letter that John Lennon wrote forty years earlier,… Read More DVD Release: Danny Collins
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Among the best films from last year’s festival circuit was Infinitely Polar Bear, an excellent independent dramedy that did the rounds of Sundance and TIFF, but is only being released now. This is one of the most honest and bighearted portraits of an unique family that I have ever seen,… Read More Review: Infinitely Polar Bear
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