By John Corrado The latest addition to Disney’s Signature Collection is their iconic 1994 classic The Lion King, which has just gotten a shiny new Blu-ray release. Released a few years into the fabled Disney Renaissance, the film remains one of the studio’s finest and most acclaimed achievements, and it still holds up beautifully over… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Lion King: The Signature Collection
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson) is the self-styled head of the Emerald Bay lifeguards, working alongside CJ Parker (Kelly Rohrbach) to keep the beach safe. When Mitch is tasked with finding three new recruits, the eager Summer Quinn (Alexandra Daddario) and chubby underdog Ronnie Greenbaum (Jon Bass) are brought… Read More Blu-ray Review: Baywatch
By John Corrado I’ve always had a soft spot for classic westerns, and John Wayne is one of the stalwarts of the genre, with his iconic persona allowing him to inhabit many characters and headline countless films throughout his long career. Now two of his later works, Rio Lobo and Big Jake, are available together… Read More Blu-ray Review: John Wayne Double Feature
By John Corrado The ragtag heroes Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) are back in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. This time around, Peter is dealing with the return of his father Ego (Kurt Russell), and how this affects his familial relationships with the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) One of the first images we see in Good Time is a closeup of Nick Nikas’s (Ben Safdie) expressive eyes, with pain and confusion flashing behind them as he is given a mental examination. Nick is a young man with a developmental disability, and though he gives seemingly… Read More Review: Good Time
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Set in late 2007, The Wall follows two American soldiers who are stationed in Iraq. Matthews (John Cena) is a sniper and Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is his spotter, and when the film opens, they have spent 22 hours lying in the dirt in the blazing sun, waiting for… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Wall
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When Mae Holland (Emma Watson) gets a job at a powerful tech company known as The Circle, she ends up discovering the true intentions of the company that controls everyone’s lives through their devices and social media platforms. At first, the company seems like an oasis of possibilities,… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Circle
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) is a teen girl who lives with her mother (Anika Noni Rose) in a completely sterile house, cut off from the rest of the physical world and not allowed to leave for fear that she will become dangerously sick due to a rare immune deficiency… Read More Blu-ray Review: Everything, Everything
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Directed by Guy Ritchie, following his entertaining pair of Sherlock Holmes films and his fun reboot of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., King Arthur: Legend of the Sword updates the classic tale of the man who freed the sword in the stone, with mostly disappointing results. This version of the… Read More Blu-ray Review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) It’s the fall of 1995, and Ali (Abby Quinn) is a teenager who lives with her parents Alan (John Turturro) and Pat (Edie Falco) in a Manhattan apartment. Meanwhile, her older sister Dana (Jenny Slate) is living with her fiancé Ben (Jay Duplass), and on the surface their family… Read More Review: Landline
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After finding out that their pensions have been frozen at the steel factory where they worked for years, and faced with more bills than they can pay, Joe Harding (Michael Caine), Willie Davis (Morgan Freeman) and Albert Garner (Alan Arkin) make the decision to turn to crime in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Going in Style
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) When Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson) moves out of the city and into the home of her new fiancé David (Geoff Stults), becoming a stepmother to his young daughter Lily (Isabella Kai Rice), things seem to finally be going well in her life. But when David’s obsessive and possessive… Read More Blu-ray Review: Unforgettable
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