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
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