By John Corrado It was a hit on Netflix, and now director Mike Flanagan’s ten-part dramatic horror series The Haunting of Hill House is available to own on Blu-ray in a 3-disc set that includes extended versions of several episodes. The series follows the Crain family, jumping back and forth between past and present to… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Haunting of Hill House
By John Corrado In honour of its 20th anniversary this year, Paramount has released a new steelbook edition of the 1999 science fiction comedy Galaxy Quest on Blu-ray. Dubbed the Never Give Up, Never Surrender Edition, this is a fairly irresistible release for fans of the cult classic film. Directed by Dean Parisot, (who is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Galaxy Quest: Collector’s Edition Steelbook
By John Corrado There has been a lot of talk about the racially charged drama Luce since it premiered at Sundance at the beginning of the year, and it’s now available on DVD as of today. The film follows a high school student named Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), an Eritrean immigrant who is the adoptive son… Read More DVD Review: Luce
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Satire is a tricky thing to properly pull off, but New Zealand actor and filmmaker Taika Waititi mostly succeeds in his latest film Jojo Rabbit, an original and daring World War II satire that is equal parts funny and moving. The film had its world premiere at the… Read More Review: Jojo Rabbit
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The latest from master filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory is a beautiful work filled with colour and emotion that is carried by a powerful, career-defining performance from Antonio Banderas, who won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his role. The story centres around an aging filmmaker… Read More Review: Pain and Glory
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, Western Stars, which was released earlier this year, is an introspective, often bittersweet concept album of sorts that tells the story of a fading Western movie star, and finds the iconic American rocker branching out to country music and performing with a thirty piece… Read More Review: Western Stars
By John Corrado It’s already made over a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and currently ranks as the second highest grossing movie of the year after Avengers: Endgame. Now Disney’s remake of The Lion King is available to own on Blu-ray as of this week. While I did enjoy this updated retelling of… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Lion King (2019)
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Director Bong Joon-ho’s first film in Korean following his two English-language movies Snowpiercer and Okja, Parasite made history earlier this year when it took home the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes, becoming the first film from South Korea to win the award. And now that I’ve seen the film, I can… Read More Review: Parasite
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Arriving in theatres a full five years after Disney’s successful live action fantasy Maleficent, which provided a loose retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale from the perspective of the original story’s villain, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is the epitome of a mildly enjoyable but also kind of… Read More Review: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
By John Corrado The Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants has been on the air since 1999, and it’s still going strong after twenty years. While the show is currently in its twelfth season on TV, the complete tenth season of the series has just been released on DVD this week. Spread over two discs, SpongeBob… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Tenth Season
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen died within three months of each other in 2016. The two never got married or had children together, but they shared a deep bond, with her directly inspiring at least two of Cohen’s classic songs (“So Long, Marianne” and “Bird on a Wire”).… Read More DVD Review: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When a massive, Category 5 hurricane hits off the coast of Florida, Hayley (Kaya Scodelario) goes to check in on her father (Barry Pepper), and ends up trapped in the crawl space under his house with a massive alligator that has made its way down through a drainage… Read More Blu-ray Review: Crawl
By John Corrado The sophomore feature from Ari Aster, following up last year’s breakout hit Hereditary, Midsommar is an entirely unique folk horror movie set in broad daylight that offers further proof that the young director is a force to be reckoned with in terms of genre filmmaking. It’s now available on Blu-ray as of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Midsommar
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The one thing you can’t accuse the esteemed, Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee of is repeating himself or making the same movie twice. All it takes is a precursory glance at his incredibly diverse filmography to know that he hasn’t repeated himself. This is, after all, a filmmaker who… Read More Review: Gemini Man
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Rudy Ray Moore was a self-described entrepreneur and fledgling musician who worked in a record shop in the 1970s, when he decided to branch out into doing comedy records. Creating a flamboyant alter-ego named Dolemite, a foul-mouthed pimp who speaks in verse, Moore ended up becoming a massively… Read More Review: Dolemite Is My Name
By John Corrado ★ (out of 4) There are some movies that simply don’t work, and others that are such creative misfires that they almost become fascinating case studies in what not to do. The keyword is “almost.” The bafflingly bad space drama Lucy in the Sky is one such example, a film that swings… Read More Review: Lucy in the Sky
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest entry into the Conjuring franchise, and the third spinoff film focusing on the doll Annabelle who serves as the through line of the series, Annabelle Comes Home is a solid and entertaining sequel that does a good job of expanding upon the mythology of this cinematic… Read More Blu-ray Review: Annabelle Comes Home
By John Corrado It was always a risk for Pixar to make a fourth Toy Story movie. The original trilogy, which concluded at the start of this decade with Toy Story 3 in 2010, is undoubtedly one of the greatest film trilogies of all time, leading to questions of where the story could possibly go… Read More Blu-ray Review: Toy Story 4
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The possibilities of human genome editing through the discovery of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), a specific family of DNA sequences, are explored in director Adam Bolt’s documentary Human Nature, which looks at the possibilities of a future where diseases or even certain traits could be cut… Read More Review: Human Nature
By John Corrado Today is October 3rd, which fans of the movie Mean Girls know to be the day when new student Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was asked by her popular classmate and secret crush Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) what day it was. While last year’s Mean Girls Day was extra special because it actually… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mean Girls: 15th Anniversary Edition
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