By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Adapting a series of classic books can have its challenges, but Goosebumps is a big exception to this rule, making great use of an almost ingeniously clever premise to bring R.L. Stine’s chilling children’s novels to life in extremely entertaining fashion. Destined to become a future Halloween favourite, this is a… Read More Review: Goosebumps
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) It would be impossible to discuss Victoria without talking about the general conceit behind the film, which is that it was all filmed in one continuous single take, with director Sebastian Schipper never stopping the camera once throughout the overnight shoot. The film opens in a throbbing nightclub,… Read More Review: Victoria
By John Corrado Last week, the excellent documentary The Wolfpack was released on Blu-ray. Everything the Angulo brothers know about the outside world comes from the movies they watch, having rarely left their subsidized apartment in New York City. Homeschooled by their mother, and raised under the fanatical rules of their father, the six teenagers spend… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Wolfpack
By John Corrado Last week, Sony Pictures Classics released Dope on Blu-ray. Malcolm (Shameik Moore), Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) are a trio of high school friends from a rough Los Angeles neighbourhood, self-professed geeks who have their own band and are obsessed with ’90s pop culture and retro hip hop. But Malcolm’s Harvard… Read More Blu-ray Release: Dope
By John Corrado This week, Sony is releasing Pixels on Blu-ray 3D. When our planet is attacked by versions of classic video game characters, sent by aliens who mistake footage from a 1980s arcade competition as a call to war, President Will Cooper (Kevin James) enlists the help of his nerdy old friends Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler)… Read More Blu-ray 3D Release: Pixels
By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures is releasing Monty Python and the Holy Grail: 40th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray. The first of three narrative features created by and starring all six of the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin), this beloved cult classic comedy follows King Arthur and his knights on a quest to… Read More Blu-ray Release: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: 40th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Jack (Jacob Tremblay) has just turned five, but has lived his entire life locked inside a small square room with his beloved Ma (Brie Larson). The only glimpse he has ever gotten of the world is through a small skylight, believing that outside is space and everything else only… Read More Review: Room
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The latest triumph from visionary director Robert Zemeckis, arriving thirty years after his iconic Back to the Future trilogy, The Walk continues his winning streak of pushing to the cutting edge of what’s possible through visual effects, to craft a thrilling big screen spectacle built around an incredibly… Read More Review: The Walk
By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the recent period drama Testament of Youth on Blu-ray. Vera Brittain (Alicia Vikander) is a young woman who dreams of being a writer, but puts aside her university education to work as a nurse during World War I, when her brother (Taron Egerton) and love interest (Kit… Read More Blu-ray Release: Testament of Youth
By John Corrado Back on October 6th, 20th Century Fox released the indie dramedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl on Blu-ray. Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann) is an awkward high schooler who makes parodies of classic films with his best friend and co-worker Earl (RJ Cyler). But Greg’s life changes when he starts hanging… Read More Blu-ray Release: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Bridge of Spies – A DreamWorks Studios Release http://bridgeofspies.com Release Date: October 16th, 2015 Rated PG for mature themes and violence Running Time: 141 minutes Steven Spielberg (director) Matt Charman (writer) Ethan Coen (writer) Joel Coen (writer) Thomas Newman (music) Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel Austin Stowell as Francis… Read More Three Views: Bridge of Spies
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Ravi Patel, the title subject in the utterly delightful documentary Meet the Patels, is approaching thirty and facing pressure to find a wife. But this process is complicated by living in a family where Patels always marry Patels, and nobody breaks away from their proud Indian culture. Ravi’s more… Read More Review: Meet the Patels
By John Corrado Today, Disney is releasing their 1992 classic Aladdin on Blu-ray, as part of their Diamond Edition series. Aladdin (Scott Weinger) is a young street thief who falls in love with Jasmine (Linda Larkin), a lonely princess who is tired of being confined to the castle, but forced to marry royalty. When Aladdin is… Read More Blu-ray Release: Aladdin
By John Corrado Today, Disney is releasing director Brad Bird’s big budget fantasy Tomorrowland on Blu-ray. Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) is a young dreamer who finds a mysterious pin that seemingly transports her to a futuristic world every time she touches it. The pin brings her into contact with Frank Walker (George Clooney), a grizzled inventor… Read More Blu-ray release: Tomorrowland
By John Corrado Today, 20th Century Fox is releasing a 25th anniversary edition of director Tim Burton’s beloved classic Edward Scissorhands on Blu-ray. Pieced together atop a mountain by a lonely old inventor (Vincent Price), who dies before being able to complete him, Edward (Johnny Depp) is a gentle man who is left with scissors for hands. When he’s… Read More Blu-ray Release: Edward Scissorhands
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Equal parts compelling and heartbreaking, 99 Homes builds a gripping dramatic thriller around the recent housing crash and economic crisis, wrought with vivid moral dilemmas that are made all the more powerful because of how current they feel. When Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is forcefully evicted from his family… Read More Review: 99 Homes
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Canadian politics have rarely been as much fun as they are in My Internship in Canada, a whip smart and hugely entertaining political satire, that especially hits home with the election just around the corner. Steve Guibard (Patrick Huard) is an independent Member of Parliament in Quebec, who ends… Read More Review: My Internship in Canada
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After taking us to the battlefields of World War II in his 2008 epic Passchendaele, writer-director Paul Gross returns to the combat zone in his modern war film Hyena Road. Taking place during the War in Afghanistan, this pretty good action drama focuses on a group of Canadian soldiers stationed… Read More Review: Hyena Road
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Allowing the profoundly important message of its title subject to ring through in every scene, He Named Me Malala is an inspiring documentary about the power for change, that helps illustrate the importance of education and women’s rights. Forced to leave Pakistan with her family, after being shot in the head by the… Read More Review: He Named Me Malala
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Named after the Mexican word for “hitman,” Sicario is a tense and thought provoking condemnation of the war on drugs, that provides a timely examination of the murky border policies and abuses of police force that have come in its wake. After members of her team are killed during a… Read More Review: Sicario
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