By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The film industry is a place ripe for satire, a world where movie stars are grossly overpaid, writers are criminally undervalued, and studio heads become God-like figures overseeing it all to make sure every piece of the machine works accordingly to turn a profit. This is the basic setup… Read More Review: Hail, Caesar!
By John Corrado Today, Disney•Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur is being released on Blu-ray. The film imagines a world where dinosaurs never went extinct and follows Arlo (Raymond Ochoa), a scared young apatosaurus who becomes separated from his family when tragedy strikes, and forms a bond with a feral human child named Spot (Jack Bright), as they… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Good Dinosaur
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Today, Disney Junior is releasing The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar on DVD. A TV special that aired last fall to kick off the new animated series, the story follows Simba (Rob Lowe) and Nala’s (Gabrielle Union) second born son Kion (Max Charles), who is assigned to lead the Lion… Read More DVD Review: The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Right from the ingenious opening credits, which announce the film as being produced by “asshats” and directed by “an overpaid tool,” as Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning” ironically plays on the soundtrack, Deadpool sets itself up as both origin story of its title character and gleeful sendup… Read More Review: Deadpool
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) If a belief in God also means believing in the devil, it’s no surprise that the deeply religious family at the centre of The Witch becomes so terrified and paranoid when apparently satanic things start happening around their New England farm. The year is 1630, and William (Ralph… Read More Review: The Witch
By John Corrado The one thing that stuck out to me when putting together this highly belated list of the best albums of 2015, is just how different the majority of these recordings are from each other. But like the wide range of movies I watch, the music I listen to is just as diverse,… Read More The Best Albums of 2015
Featuring one of the best roles of Lily Tomlin’s career, Grandma is a small gem that I’m happy to help support, so when Sony Pictures Classics reached out asking if I wanted to do a giveaway, I openly accepted the offer. We’ve got two copies of the newly released Blu-ray to give away to a pair of… Read More Contest: Win a Copy of Grandma on Blu-ray
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) This week, MGM is releasing Spectre on Blu-ray, the 24th James Bond movie. With a new head of security (Andrew Scott) threatening to enact overreaching government surveillance measures that would reduce the need for field agents, James Bond (Daniel Craig) goes rogue to track down a mysterious supervillian (Christoph… Read More Blu-ray Review: Spectre
By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the small gem Grandma on Blu-ray. Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) is an aging feminist and misanthropic poet, who is launched into one of the most eventful days of her life when her estranged granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) shows up, needing to borrow over six hundred dollars… Read More Blu-ray Release: Grandma
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing Touched By An Angel: The Complete Series on DVD, featuring all 214 episodes from the nine seasons of the popular faith-based drama that ran from 1994 to 2003. The series follows a trio of angels, Tess (Della Resse), Monica (Roma Downey), and Andrew the “Angel of Death” (John… Read More DVD Release: Touched By An Angel: The Complete Series
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Bringing Alan Bennet’s largely autobiographical stage play of the same name to the screen, The Lady in the Van recounts the “mostly true” story of Miss Shephard (Maggie Smith), an eccentric senior who lives in the back of a beat up old van. The old vehicle ends parked in… Read More Review: The Lady in the Van
The International Film Music Critics Association nominations were released this morning for excellence in film scoring in 2015. Leading with four nominations each are veteran John Williams for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Ennio Morricone for The Hateful Eight. Close behind with three noms each are Michael Giacchio for Inside Out, Jupiter Ascending, and… Read More 12th Annual IFMCA Award Nominees Announced Today
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest tale in DreamWorks Animation’s surprisingly engaging saga, Kung Fu Panda 3 finds unlikely Dragon Warrior Po (Jack Black) reunited with his birth father (Bryan Cranston), and taken back to the secret panda village where he was born. But all of China is being threatened by the… Read More Review: Kung Fu Panda 3
By John Corrado Today, Disney is releasing their beloved 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray, to kick off their new Signature Collection series. Famously voiced by Adriana Caselotti, Snow White is a charming princess who escapes the clutches of the evil Queen (Lucilla La Verne), and finds herself in the forest… Read More Blu-ray Release: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Signature Collection
By John Corrado DreamWorks is releasing the excellent historical drama Bridge of Spies on Blu-ray today, the latest from director Steven Spielberg. James Donovan (Tom Hanks) is a defence lawyer in Brooklyn who is hired to represent Rudolph Abel (Mark Rylance), a Russian agent arrested for espionage on home soil at the height of the… Read More Blu-ray Release: Bridge of Spies
By John Corrado Today, Paramount is releasing the 2001 comedy Zoolander on Blu-ray. Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is a dimwitted male fashion model who loses Model of the Year to his rival Hansel (Owen Wilson), and is brainwashed by deranged designer Mugato (Will Ferrell) in a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister of Malaysia, who has… Read More Blu-ray Release: Zoolander
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