By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Brittany (Jillian Bell) is a pretty typical millennial in her late-twenties. She drinks too much and doesn’t follow the best diet, decisions that are partially fuelled by deep insecurity, feeling like everyone around her is moving forward in terms of relationships and having kids as she remains stuck… Read More Review: Brittany Runs a Marathon
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The third film in Legendary Entertainment’s Monsterverse, following their 2014 reboot of Godzilla and the 2017 King Kong reimagining Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters is dense with mythology and offers plenty of kaiju action, but lacks depth when it comes to human characters. The film takes place five… Read More Blu-ray Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A sequel to Illumination’s 2016 animated hit The Secret Life of Pets, The Secret Life of Pets 2 pretty much offers more of the same in terms of animated pet antics, and if you enjoyed the first film like I did, then that’s a good thing. The first film… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Secret Life of Pets 2
By John Corrado Following a successful run in theatres earlier this summer, the Elton John biopic Rocketman is coming to Blu-ray this week. The film reinvigorates the usual biopic formula by turning the singer’s life into a full blown jukebox musical built around many of his classic songs, and it features one of the best performances… Read More Blu-ray Review: Rocketman
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest film from Quebec’s Xavier Dolan, and his first one in English, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan is in some ways a departure for the young filmmaker, but it still feels like a work that is distinctly his. This is his attempt at making something… Read More Review: The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) There has been a lot of talk in the movie industry lately about increased representation for minority groups, and that’s a good thing. It’s long overdue. But the one group that all too often gets left out of this conversation is people with disabilities. The problem isn’t really… Read More Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) After closing their doors during the recession and leaving thousands of workers without a job, a former General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio got taken over by a Chinese company and was able to reopen in 2014 as Fuyao Glass America. What happened next is documented in American… Read More Review: American Factory
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Named for the first single off of Bruce Springsteen’s 1973 debut album Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., Blinded by the Light tells the story of an unlikely Springsteen fan who uses the music of The Boss to help him find his own place in the world. Based on… Read More Review: Blinded by the Light
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Back in 1961, the United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was openly fighting for the decolonization of Africa at the time, was killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodsia, and the common belief was that it was a simple engine failure. But for years an alternate… Read More Review: Cold Case Hammarskjöld
By John Corrado It’s already the biggest movie of the year – not to mention the highest grossing film of all time worldwide, finally surpassing the record previously set by James Cameron’s Avatar a decade ago – and now Avengers: Endgame is arriving on Blu-ray this week. Bringing about the end of the first stretch… Read More Blu-ray Review: Avengers: Endgame
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series by Alvin Schwartz is frequently included on lists of the most banned and challenged books due to its disturbing subject matter and creepy black and white illustrations by Stephen Gammell. The three books, which were originally published between 1981 and 1991… Read More Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After a mysterious illness wiped out the female half of the human population a decade ago, a father (Casey Affleck) must keep his 11-year-old daughter Rag (Anna Pniowsky) hidden in the woods from the remnants of society and disguised as a boy, with other men threatening to do her… Read More Review: Light of My Life
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) There are movies of the moment, and then there is Luce, a race-based dramatic thriller that ignited plenty of conversations at Sundance and weaves so many hot button issues into its narrative that it can’t help but feel heavy-handed. The film centres around Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), a… Read More Review: Luce
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Born in 1985, six years after China’s communist government brought in their one child policy in 1979 as a way to combat overpopulation, filmmaker Nanfu Wang grew up intimately effected by the law, which stayed in place until 2015. Now having a child of her own, Wang explores… Read More Review: One Child Nation
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) There are some movies that end up being pleasant surprises simply because they turn out better than anyone rightly expected them to be. Last year’s surprisingly solid Transformers spin-off Bumblebee is just one example that springs to mind, and now we can add Pokémon Detective Pikachu to this list. Based on… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) New Line Cinema continues their cornering of the mainstream horror movie market with The Curse of La Llorona, which serves as a loosely connected spin-off of their hugely popular Conjuring franchise, a series that has already been expanded to include last year’s The Nun and the recently completed… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Curse of La Llorona
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Haditze Muratova is the last of the wild bee keepers in Macedonia. Living in an old hut in the Balkan mountains, she spends her time tending to a colony of wild bees, and is careful not to disturb them as she extracts pieces of honeycomb from their hive,… Read More Review: Honeyland
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