To celebrate the home entertainment release of Hotel Transylvania 3, and in honour of Halloween this week, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has provided us with a copy of the Blu-ray to give away to one lucky Canadian reader! To enter, simply send an email to info@onemoviefiveviews.com with the subject line “Win a Copy of Hotel… Read More Contest: Win a Copy of Hotel Transylvania 3 on Blu-ray!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Dracula (Adam Sandler) is back in Hotel Transylvania 3, the latest film in director Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated series. The result is an amusing threequel that shows there is still some fun to be had with these characters, and if you liked the first two, then you are sure… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hotel Transylvania 3
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Based on the Cartoon Network series Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is a feature length version of the show that uses meta humour to further the adventures of teen superhero friends Robin (Scott Menville), Cyborg (Khary Payton), Raven (Tara Strong), Starfire (Hynden Walch) and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Making his directorial debut, Jonah Hill has delivered one of the very best movies of the year with Mid90s, an incredibly enjoyable coming of age film that, like its title suggests, transports us back to the 1990s and captures the era perfectly. The indie flick follows Stevie (Sunny… Read More Review: Mid90s
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The tumultuous experience of trying to find help for a loved one with dementia, and the effects that it has on the rest of the family, is explored in What They Had, a believable character-driven film that uses gentle humour and genuine emotion to explore a sensitive topic.… Read More Review: What They Had
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Did we really need a belated sequel to Mamma Mia! The Movie? Not really, but Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is just so enjoyable to watch that it’s hard to really care. Arriving a full decade after the first one, the film takes us back to the Greek… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Picking up shortly after the events of the 2015 film Sicario, Sicario: Day of the Soldado focuses on a new crisis at the United States-Mexico border, when the drug cartels that control the area get into the business of smuggling terrorists into the country. Looking to enforce border… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Loosely based on her own life and family, writer-director Shana Feste assembles a stacked cast of familiar faces in Boundaries to tell the story of a single mother Laura (Vera Farmiga) and her socially awkward son Henry (Lewis MacDougall), who end up on a road trip with her estranged… Read More DVD Review: Boundaries
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The English-language debut of Belgian filmmaker Felix Van Groeningen, who is best known for his Oscar-nominated 2012 film The Broken Circle Breakdown, Beautiful Boy is a heartbreaking and deeply emotional addiction drama, that is anchored by superb performances from Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. The film is based on a… Read More Review: Beautiful Boy
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Forty years after terrorizing the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night, the silent killer Michael Myers (Nick Castle) returns to once again wreak havoc on October 31st and hunt down Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who survived his first rampage. Laurie has spent the past forty years… Read More Review: Halloween
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) “I pledge my loyalty to my President and my country and vow to defend them from enemies, both foreign and domestic.” This is the Patriot’s Oath at the centre of The Oath, an uneven but still topical and often entertaining political satire that marks the directorial debut of… Read More Review: The Oath
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Gaining fame as a champion weightlifter and bodybuilder, and also serving in the US Marines, Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was seen as a symbol of stereotypical masculinity, and came across as a classic “strong man.” But Matt always felt there was something different about himself, which he tried to keep… Read More Review: Transformer
To celebrate the digital releases of Mary Shelley and The King this week, levelFILM has provided us with a couple of iTunes promo codes for each film to giveaway to some lucky Canadian readers! Mary Shelley is a biopic of the iconic Frankenstein author that is carried by a good performance from Elle Fanning in the… Read More Contest: Win iTunes Promo Codes of Mary Shelley and The King!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, and the most recent piece of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man and the Wasp opens with Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) still under house arrest following the events of Captain America: Civil War. As part of his bail conditions, he is not allowed… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When Tupac Shakur talked about the “THUG LIFE”, he said it stood for “The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.” This is where the title of The Hate U Give comes from, and the meaning of this quote is discussed throughout the film. What Tupac was referring to… Read More Review: The Hate U Give
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Damian Chazelle follows up his Oscar-winning films Whiplash and La La Land with First Man, a space race drama that follows Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) over seven years as he prepares to become the first man to walk on the moon. The film charts Armstrong’s journey from his… Read More Review: First Man
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a kindergarten teacher in New York going through a bit of a midlife crisis, seemingly unhappy with her family life. When she overhears one of her young students, Jimmy (Parker Sevak), reciting a poem he has written, she is convinced that he is… Read More Review: The Kindergarten Teacher
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Based on the true story of the men who built an entire fitness empire from the ground up, Bigger dramatizes the life of Joe Weider (Tyler Hoechlin) and his younger brother Ben (Aneurin Barnard), a pair of working class Jewish kids from Montreal who founded the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition,… Read More Review: Bigger
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The latest film from David Lowery, following his haunting minimalist drama A Ghost Story and his charming remake of Disney’s Pete’s Dragon, The Old Man & The Gun is as light as a feather, and just as buoyant. The film recounts the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford),… Read More Review: The Old Man & The Gun
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on Canadian author Patrick deWitt’s acclaimed book of the same name, The Sisters Brothers follows Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix), a pair of outlaw brothers in 1851, Oregon. The brothers are hired by a mysterious crime boss known only as The Commodore (Rutger Haur)… Read More Review: The Sisters Brothers
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