By John Corrado Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which is arriving on Blu-ray today following its holiday release back in November, is one of those films that is often beautiful to look at but also feels sort of empty. It’s not a bad film, but it is a somewhat disappointing one, starting off… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Jonathan (Ansel Elgort) is a young man who seemingly has it all. He’s got a good job at an architectural firm, and a nice apartment. But his life is complicated by the presence of his “brother” John, who happens to share the same body as him through a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Jonathan
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Flynn McGarry, the young subject of the documentary Chef Flynn, taught himself to cook at a very young age through cookbooks and YouTube videos. When he was 11 years old, he turned his family’s living room into a makeshift restaurant, with the help of his mother and his… Read More Review: Chef Flynn
By John Corrado The latest title to get the special edition treatment from Shout Select is Frank Oz’s classic 1988 con man comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring the dream team of Michael Caine and Steve Martin. The film follows Lawrence Jamieson (Caine), a suave English con man who is en route to the fictional town… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is now available on Blu-ray, fresh off receiving Oscar nominations for Visual Effects, Production Design, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing just this morning While I do have some issues with the film’s approach to telling this story, First Man is still an impressive technical achievement,… Read More Blu-ray Review: First Man
By John Corrado Featuring excellent performances from Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet – who really should have gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Felix Van Groeningen’s powerful addiction drama Beautiful Boy is now available on Blu-ray. While Beautiful Boy has garnered some mixed reviews, this is one of those movies that I… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beautiful Boy
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The character of Venom was initially meant to be an adversary to Spider-Man. Now the popular Marvel Comics villain – who was played by Topher Grace in Sam Raimi’s 2007 blockbuster Spider-Man 3 – takes centre stage in the aptly titled Venom, and I’m honestly not exactly sure what to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Venom
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Elliot (Josh Hutcherson) is a miniature horse who has always dreamed of flying with the reindeer, and when Blitzen (Martin Short) announces his retirement right before Christmas, leaving Santa (George Buza) scrambling to find a replacement to fill his spot on the sleigh team, he sees an opportunity… Read More DVD Review: Elliot the Littlest Reindeer
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning 2015 film The Big Short was no typical financial drama. The film instead broke the fourth wall and used meta humour and a variety of other stylistic touches to offer a powerful examination of the 2008 economic crisis that was as compelling and informative as… Read More Review: Vice
By John Corrado David Gordon Green’s Halloween, which saw the return of Michael Myers forty years after John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 film, was one of the most anticipated movies of last fall, and it’s now arriving on Blu-ray. Serving as a direct followup to the original, this film finds Michael coming back to Haddonfield, Illinois… Read More Blu-ray Review: Halloween
By John Corrado Another year has come and gone. While 2018 officially ended nearly two weeks ago now, I wouldn’t be able to officially say goodbye to the year without first counting down my picks for the best films that were released within that timeframe. My list of the best documentaries of 2018 already dropped yesterday,… Read More The Best Movies of 2018
By John Corrado We have already officially closed the door on 2018, but before we entirely leave the year in the past, I would be remiss not to highlight the many wonderful films that I saw last year. My list of the best movies of 2018 will be dropping shortly, but first I would like… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2018
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Director Karyn Kusama’s latest film Destroyer opens with rogue LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) waking up in her car, which is parked under an overpass. She appears weary and beaten down – we will find out that she has succumbed to drinking as a way to quell her… Read More Review: Destroyer
By John Corrado Watching When Harry Met Sally… again, which I had the pleasure of doing the other night thanks to the new 30th anniversary edition that Shout Select just put out on Blu-ray, it’s easy to see why the film is still regarded as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time. Directed by… Read More Blu-ray Review: When Harry Met Sally…: 30th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Carl Reiner’s classic 1979 comedy The Jerk is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, an occasion that was marked by this new Blu-ray edition that was put out by Shout Select last month. The film stars Steve Martin in his breakout movie role as Navin R. Johnson, a charming simpleton who was… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Jerk: 40th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Ronald Reagan is never actually mentioned by name in White Boy Rick, but his figures often looms large behind the story, which details the human impact that the 40th President’s so-called “War on Drugs” had upon poor and minority communities. The film is based on the true story… Read More Blu-ray Review: White Boy Rick
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Adapted from Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, Juliet, Naked is a very likeable film that proves there are still many pleasures to be found within the classic romantic comedy formula when it’s done right. The film focuses on Annie (Rose Byrne), who is living a quiet… Read More DVD Review: Juliet, Naked
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The directorial debut of Paul Dano, who co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is based on Richard Ford’s 1990 novel of the same name, and is told from the point of view of its adolescent protagonist Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould). Joe is a young teenager… Read More Review: Wildlife
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