By John Corrado This always happens. I was hoping to put up my list of the best movies of 2017 closer to the end of the year for once, but I ended up spending January playing catch up on films that I had either missed last year, or weren’t even getting wide releases until this… Read More The Best Movies of 2017
By John Corrado Earlier in the month, Julie Taymor’s 2007 jukebox musical Across the Universe got the 4K UHD treatment. The film reimagines the events of the 1960s, including the Detroit riots, the Vietnam War, and the experimentations with hallucinogenic drugs that defined the decade, all set to the iconic music of the Beatles. The… Read More 4K UHD Review: Across the Universe
By John Corrado Based on a true story, Breathe dramatizes the life of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), a disability rights advocate who was struck with polio in the 1950s and left paralyzed from the neck down. Although initially confined to a hospital bed, Robin was able to survive at home thanks to the dedication of his wife… Read More DVD Review: Breathe
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The latest from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread is said to have been inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 classic Rebecca, and it does indeed have the feel of an old romantic drama from the 1940s or ’50s, albeit with a twisted side to it that is fascinating to unravel… Read More Review: Phantom Thread
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Right from the opening scene of Logan, a brutal attempted carjacking staged in the middle of the sparse New Mexico desert, the film immediately sets itself up as offering something different from the majority of other comic book movies, let alone the ones in the X-Men universe. This… Read More Review: Logan
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Wink (Ian McLaren) is a member of the Badsville Kings, a greaser gang that tries to rule over the depressed title town in Badsville, a gritty crime drama that takes place just outside of Los Angeles and explores themes of loyalty and rivalry between gang members. When Wink falls… Read More Review: Badsville
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) When climate change starts running amok, causing devastating natural disasters around the globe, the world’s governments hire the cocky scientist Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) to set up the Dutch Boy Program, a high tech network of satellites that are connected to a space station and control the Earth’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: Geostorm
By John Corrado The latest from director Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer follows Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell), a cardiac surgeon who strikes up a strange friendship with an offbeat teen named Martin (Barry Keoghan), but things start to go horribly wrong when he brings the troubled teen home to meet his wife (Nicole… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
By John Corrado The first ever fully hand painted feature film, Loving Vincent takes place a year after the suicide of Vincent Van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk), and follows a postman’s son (Douglas Booth) who is tasked with delivering a lost letter that the Dutch artist had written to his brother, and ends up becoming intrigued… Read More iTunes Review: Loving Vincent
By John Corrado Based on a book by Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck tells the interconnecting stories of Rose (Millicent Simmonds), a young deaf girl in 1927, and Ben (Oakes Fegley), a preteen boy in the Midwest in 1973 who goes deaf when lightning strikes his house, who both run away to New York. Although the film isn’t… Read More iTunes Review: Wonderstruck
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Directed by Ai Weiwei, Human Flow is a mix of documentary and art project that offers an on the ground look at the migrant crisis in Europe, filmed over 23 different countries. The film offers a sprawling look at the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from war… Read More iTunes Review: Human Flow
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) When most people hear the name of figure skater Tonya Harding, they recall the 1994 incident when her rival Nancy Kerrigan’s knee was bashed in, mere weeks before they were both set to compete at the Olympics in Lilliehammer, Norway. But the truth is that she wasn’t even… Read More Review: I, Tonya
By John Corrado Every year, I end up seeing a lot of really good documentaries, and 2017 was no different. Between Hot Docs and TIFF, there were a lot of non-fiction films that I really liked, and that’s what I want to highlight here. There were a few buzzed about films that I didn’t get… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2017
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A long awaited follow up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 takes place thirty years after the events of the original film. Replicants are still being treated like second class citizens, and now the blade runner jobs go to other replicants, who… Read More Blu-ray Review: Blade Runner 2049
By John Corrado Adapted from Stephen King’s classic horror novel, It follows a group of misfit friends in the 1980s who dub themselves the Loser’s Club, and have to take down a demonic entity that feeds on children and manifests as a terrifying clown named Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), who terrorizes their town of Derry, Maine… Read More Blu-ray Review: It
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