By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Beginning and ending with scenes of Inuit people hunting seals, Angry Inuk packs a compelling argument between these bookending sequences that gracefully challenges those who protest the seal hunt. The winner of the Audience Award at Hot Docs, this is documentary filmmaking at its most important and provocative. Directed by Alethea… Read More Review: Angry Inuk
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The story of a young black man and how his life changes from childhood to adulthood as he comes to terms with being gay, Moonlight is a heartbreaking and vital work of art, that has a profound lasting impact. The film opens with our protagonist Chiron as an extremely… Read More Review: Moonlight
By John Corrado Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, the 2006 comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is getting a new Blu-ray release, including both the theatrical and unrated cuts of the film. I still remember seeing Talladega Nights in theatres when it first came out and laughing my face off, and it still holds up… Read More Blu-ray Review: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
By John Corrado To mark the fifteenth anniversary of the film, the Oscar-winning modern classic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is being released on Blu-ray. Directed by Ang Lee, the film became an instant critical and box office success upon its release, that went on to win four of its ten Academy Award nominations, and remains the highest… Read More Blu-ray Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: 15th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The fifth film in the popular animated franchise, arriving fourteen years after the still-best original from 2002, Ice Age: Collision Course finds its characters dealing with the various entanglements of romance. Manny (Ray Romano) is trying to keep his marriage to Ellie (Queen Latifah) from getting stale while also having a hard time accepting… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ice Age: Collision Course
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Jonas Ford (Josh Wiggins) lives on a struggling rural farm property, with a severely depressed mother (Vickie Papavs) and a father (Joe Cobden) who keeps him out of school and expects him to work in the fields. When Casey Caraway (Sophie Nélisse) moves into a nearby farmhouse with… Read More Review: Mean Dreams
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The People vs. Fritz Bauer dramatizes the lengths prosecutor Fritz Bauer (Burghart Klaussner) went to in tracking down high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann (Michael Schenk) over a decade after the end of World War II, hoping to put him on trial in Germany for his crimes against humanity. Burghart Klaussner portrays… Read More Review: The People vs. Fritz Bauer
By John Corrado A much less successful followup to Tim Burton’s 2010 take on Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass follows Alice (Mia Wasikowska) as she is guided through a mirror that takes her back to Underland. The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) has grown sick, and the clues to cure him lie in the past,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Alice Through the Looking Glass
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When an ancient and powerful mutant named Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) is awoken after thousands of years and becomes hellbent on wiping out humanity, it’s up to Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), as well as a team of young mutants including Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Cyclops (Tye… Read More Blu-ray Review: X-Men: Apocalypse
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) A passion project for director Andrea Arnold, American Honey is an epic in its own right. This is an exhilarating road movie that quietly explores the hidden pockets of America where real people live their lives, struggling with ways to make money and dealing with the reality of… Read More Review: American Honey
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) A visually stunning mix of animation and archival footage, the unique documentary Tower recreates the events of August 1st, 1966 when a lone gunmen with a sniper rifle positioned himself atop the clock tower at the University of Texas, and for over ninety minutes unleashed a reign of terror… Read More Review: Tower
By John Corrado Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, the 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life is being rereleased in a new Platinum Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray. The film follows the life of George Bailey (James Stewart), a man faced with suicidal desperation on Christmas Eve who is visited by Clarence (Henry Travers), a kind angel wanting to get… Read More Blu-ray Review: It’s a Wonderful Life: Platinum Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado A remake of the iconic 1984 classic, Ghostbusters opened this summer and was overshadowed by a sea of hype and often ugly backlash, and now it arrives on Blu-ray where it deserves to find an even bigger audience. This reboot of the franchise finds Dr. Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig), Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy), Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and Patty Tolan… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ghostbusters
By John Corrado When people talk about a lack of originality in film, Swiss Army Man now exists to prove them wrong as a glorious example of something admirably unique that’s literally never been done before. This is the story of Hank (Paul Dano), a depressed man stranded in the wilderness who finds an unlikely friend in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Swiss Army Man
By John Corrado Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) is a foster kid who has just been placed with Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and Hector (Sam Neill), an older couple who live on a rural property in New Zealand. But when tragic circumstances lead Ricky to run away, Hector goes after him, and the two start to… Read More DVD Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Based on a true story, Genius recounts the unlikely friendship that developed between book editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth) and young author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), as the two worked together on the classic novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. This unique relationship between creator… Read More DVD Review: Genius
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Darius McCollum has spent over thirty years impersonating transit officials and commandeering buses and subway trains for joy rides, and has ended up stuck in the revolving doors of the prison system because of it. These so called “crimes” have made him a New York legend, and his unique story… Read More Review: Off the Rails
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Kim Nguyen, and featuring breathtaking images shot on location in Nunavut, Two Lovers and a Bear is a hypnotic and transportive psychological drama, that balances its elements of magical realism with genuine human emotion. The two lovers of the title are Lucy (Tatiana Maslaney) and Roman (Dane DeHaan), a young couple… Read More Review: Two Lovers and a Bear
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Recounting the events of a landmark court case in the 1990s that literally saw the the Holocaust being put on trial, Denial is an engaging and well acted drama that presents a lot of interesting ideas about the dangers of revisionist history. The case involves Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), a Jewish… Read More Review: Denial
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is a rock star vacationing on a remote Italian island with her filmmaking partner (Matthias Schoenaerts), resting her voice after vocal surgery has left her temporarily unable to talk. But passions heat up when an old flame (Ralph Fiennes) pays a surprise visit with… Read More DVD Review: A Bigger Splash
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