By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Don’t mess with the dead. That’s the main lesson to be learned from Our House, a small but entertaining new ghost story from director Anthony Scott Burns that is itself a remake of Matt Osterman’s 2010 indie film Ghost From the Machine. The film follows Ethan (Thomas Mann)… Read More Review: Our House
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A disappointingly shallow followup of sorts to her excellent 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, Generation Wealth finds photographer and documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield painting a much broader portrait of the destruction that can be caused by affluence and greed in modern society. The film serves as a… Read More Review: Generation Wealth
By John Corrado One of my very favourite movies of the year so far is Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, which is arriving on Blu-ray this week. Based on Ernest Cline’s bestselling novel of the same name, the film offers a wildly entertaining and visually dazzling thrill ride that pays tribute to countless classic movies,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ready Player One
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The latest from director Gus Van Sant, mining similar territory as his Oscar-winning 1997 drama Good Will Hunting, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is based on the life of controversial quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Callahan, and much of the… Read More Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher) is having trouble finding her place in middle school, and the final week of her last academic year before starting high school is charted in Eighth Grade. The film opens with Kayla filming one of the videos for her YouTube channel, where she tries… Read More Review: Eighth Grade
By John Corrado Sam Raimi’s hyper-stylized 1995 western The Quick and the Dead has just gotten a 4K Ultra HD upgrade. While the film received mixed reviews at the time of its release and was a box office flop, it has also gained somewhat of a cult following over the years. The film stars Sharon… Read More 4K UHD Review: The Quick and the Dead
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Loosely based on the video game that first launched in the 1980s, Rampage follows Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), a primatologist at a wildlife sanctuary in San Diego who has formed a bond with a rare albino silverback gorilla named George, who he has taught to communicate through sign language.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Rampage
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Set in a dystopic near-future world that has been ravaged by alien creatures that rely solely on hearing, forcing any of the remaining humans to live in silence lest they make a noise and summon an attack, A Quiet Place is an entertaining if overly gimmicky monster movie that… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Quiet Place
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) What if the rise and fall of Elvis Presley could be seen as a microcosm of America itself, symbolizing nothing less than the birth and death of the American Dream? This is the basic concept behind The King, a damn near stunning new documentary from director Eugene Jarecki,… Read More Review: The King
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When the 19-year-old Bobby arrived at college in 1980, he was treated like a familiar face, despite the fact that he didn’t know anyone. As it turns out, they had mistaken him for Eddy, an identical twin that he never knew existed. The story of these two long… Read More Review: Three Identical Strangers
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A biopic of the Frankenstein author, Mary Shelley takes the pretty extraordinary story behind one of the most beloved horror novels of all time, and turns it into a decently acted but otherwise fairly ordinary costume drama. The film opens with Mary (Elle Fanning) as a free-spirited teenager living… Read More Review: Mary Shelley
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When we first meet Will (Ben Foster) and his adolescent daughter Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) in Leave No Trace, they are living a secluded life in the middle of a large urban forest in Portland, Oregon, sharing a small tent and foraging for food. We don’t really know how… Read More Review: Leave No Trace
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Carlyle has seen its share of famous guests over the years, ranging from actors and rock stars to politicians and royalty, and now the famous New York City hotel is the centre of attention in Matthew Miele’s glossy new documentary Always at the Carlyle. Situated in the… Read More Review: Always at the Carlyle
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Set in the seedy underground world of Toronto tow-truck drivers, 22 Chaser follows Ben (Brian J. Smith), a driver for the Jackrabbit towing company who is trying to make an honest living, but is stuck doing by-law duty and finds himself struggling to support his wife (Tiio Horn) and… Read More Review: 22 Chaser
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest in a long line of faith-based movies from Affirm Films, Paul, Apostle of Christ depicts the last days of Paul the Apostle (James Faulkner). The film begins with him imprisoned in Rome in 67 AD, and sentenced to death by Emperor Nero, who accused Christians of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Paul, Apostle of Christ
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