By John Corrado This year marks the 30th anniversary of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, and with it comes a new Signature Collection release of the 1989 classic to mark the occasion. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, the film is notable for ushering in the fabled Disney Renaissance that would continue through the 1990s, and… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Little Mermaid: Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Disney’s long-awaited Ralph Breaks the Internet is arriving on Blu-ray today, fresh off of being up for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. The film is set six years after the events of its 2012 predecessor Wreck-It Ralph, and finds Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Venellope (Sarah Silverman) finding their way into the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet
By John Corrado Jacques Audiard’s unique western The Sisters Brothers, which is based on the acclaimed book of the same name by Canadian author Patrick deWitt, failed to bring in much of an audience in theatres, but the film is now available on Blu-ray and it’s worth checking out. I think the film’s lack of success partially… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Sisters Brothers
By John Corrado So that’s a wrap on the 91st Academy Awards. I ended up predicting 17 of the 24 categories correctly, which isn’t as much as I had hoped, but is still one better than I got last year. The night ultimately ended with Green Book winning Best Picture over my prediction and preference Roma,… Read More My 2019 Oscar Predictions (Now Updated With Winners)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Pawel Pawlikowski’s tragic post-World War II romance Cold War is a deeply personal film for the Oscar-nominated Polish director, as the story is based on the European love affair between his own parents. The film unfolds over fifteen years, and charts the on-again, off-again love affair between Wiktor… Read More Review: Cold War
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The title of The Wife, a literary drama from Swedish filmmaker Björn L. Runge, works to perfectly encapsulate how the female spouses of famous men are often spoken about. These women are rarely seen as “partners” or “equals,” and often they aren’t even introduced by name. They are simply… Read More Review: The Wife
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody – which is up for five Oscars including Best Picture – is, of course, named after the hit single off the rock band’s fourth studio album A Night at the Opera. A sprawling six minute opus made up of multiple different musical sections that… Read More Review: Bohemian Rhapsody
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) It’s been nine years since the first How to Train Your Dragon came out and blew audiences away with its soaring visuals and emotionally resonant story. The film received a sequel in 2014 that took the story in an even deeper and darker direction, drastically raising the emotional… Read More Review: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
By John Corrado One of my favourite movies of last year, having landed comfortably in the upper half of my top ten list, Bradley Cooper’s exceptional directorial debut A Star is Born is arriving on Blu-ray this week, and at this point I couldn’t recommend it more highly. The film is up for eight Academy… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Star is Born
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Produced by J.J. Abrams, Overlord is a World War II adventure that reimagines the war as a sort of horror movie, complete with gory violence and twisted Nazi experiments that are the stuff of nightmares. The film unfolds on the eve of D-Day, and follows a group of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Overlord
By John Corrado Who drew the dicks? That’s the question at the centre of the Netflix series American Vandal, the first season of which was released on DVD last week from Paramount. Created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, American Vandal unfolds in a mockumentary style that parodies popular true crime series like Serial and Making a… Read More DVD Review: American Vandal: Season One
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A passion project for producer and co-writer James Cameron, that is finally coming to the screen after years in development thanks to the help of director Robert Rodriguez, Alita: Battle Angel is an often eye-popping science fiction spectacle that offers a seamless mix of live action and visual effects.… Read More Review: Alita: Battle Angel
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Danica (Tika Sumpter) is a successful career woman who seems to have her life together, with a good office job at a marketing firm and a steady online relationship with her dream man, whom she has never even met. But Danica’s life is upended when her unhinged sister… Read More Blu-ray Review: Nobody’s Fool
By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released the Star Trek: 10-Movie Stardate Collection on Blu-ray. The set comes with all six films starring the cast of the original series, as well as the four featuring the characters from The Next Generation. The films included here are Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: 10-Movie Stardate Collection
By John Corrado Along with The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection, The Paul Newman 6-Movie Collection was also released on DVD last week from Paramount. The six films included in the set are Hud (1963), A New Kind of Love (1963), Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Nobody’s Fool (1994), Twilight (1998) and Road to Perdition (2002). While a lot of Newman’s most iconic… Read More DVD Review: The Paul Newman 6-Movie Collection
By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection on DVD, featuring a selection of her classic films conveniently packaged together in a single case. Listed in chronological order, the set includes the films Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), War and Peace (1956), Funny Face (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Paris When It Sizzles (1964), and My Fair… Read More DVD Review: The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Nels Coxman (Liam Neeson) is a mild-mannered snowplow driver who, near the beginning of Cold Pursuit, is named “Citizen of the Year” in Kehoe, the fictional Colorado ski town where the film’s action unfolds. When his son Kyle (Micheál Richardson) is killed by a brutal drug cartel, Nels… Read More Review: Cold Pursuit
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A survival movie in the most stripped down and literal sense of the term, Arctic centres around Overgård (Mads Mikkelsen), a man who is stranded alone in the middle of the Arctic following a plane crash. We are never explicitly told what transpired, and we don’t know exactly how… Read More Review: Arctic
To celebrate last month’s home entertainment release of the entertaining sequel Goosebumps 2, 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 Goosebumps 2 on Blu-ray!”, or you… Read More Contest: Win a Copy of Goosebumps 2 on Blu-ray!
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A followup to the surprisingly good 2015 film Goosebumps, Goosebumps 2 finds a new group of young protagonists accidentally unleashing monsters from author R.L. Stine’s classic series of books. This film is also set at Halloween, and follows Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris), two kids… Read More Blu-ray Review: Goosebumps 2
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