By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world in 2013 when he stepped down as head of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to resign since the 1400s. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as the successor to Pope John Paul II in 2005, and was chosen by the church… Read More Review: The Two Popes
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, a return to the mob movies that have defined his career, opens with a steadicam tracking shot that calls to mind the one from his 1990 classic Goodfellas. Only his camera here moves at a slower pace, taking us through the halls of a… Read More Review: The Irishman
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) There has been a bit of a Mister Rogers revival going on over the past few years, thanks in part to the release of Morgan Neville’s lovely documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which was my pick for the best non-fiction film of last year. But I think… Read More Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Written and directed by Noah Baumbach, crafting a companion piece of sorts to his acclaimed 2005 breakout film The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story is an incredibly powerful, brilliantly written and extremely well acted film that is both believable and incisive in its wrenching portrait of a… Read More Review: Marriage Story
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The third film from director Trey Edward Shultz, following up his acclaimed debut Krisha and his divisive horror film It Comes at Night, Waves is an electric piece of filmmaking that is frequently bold and audacious in its stylistic choices. Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is an all-American teenager who has the façade of… Read More Review: Waves
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) It’s a little hard to believe that six years have passed since Disney released Frozen into the world. When that film was coming out back in 2013, I don’t know if anyone really predicted that it would permeate the pop cultural landscape in the way that it did,… Read More Review: Frozen II
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Joseph Heller’s seminal 1961 novel Catch-22 is a classic satire about the futility of war and the cascading reactions from one man’s attempts to get out of battle. It was already adapted for the big screen in 1971, and now we have a small screen adaptation in the form… Read More DVD Review: Catch-22
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) I don’t think anyone was asking for a winking, self-aware teenaged Dora the Explorer movie in the year 2019. I know I certainly wasn’t. But now we have one, and I’m pleased to report that it’s actually, somewhat surprisingly, not bad. It’s a thoroughly harmless live action adventure movie… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) South Korea has proven to be a bit of a powerhouse in recent years when it comes to producing unique genre mashups, with the most prominent example of this obviously being the films of Bong-Joon Ho. Now we have The Divine Fury, a slick hybrid of exorcist film… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Divine Fury
By John Corrado It’s already one of my favourite movies of the year, and now Warner Bros. is releasing the Sundance hit Blinded by the Light on Blu-ray this week. The film follows Javed (Viveik Kalra), a British-Pakistani teenager in the 1980s who finds himself through the music of Bruce Springsteen, with the American rocker’s lyrics about… Read More Blu-ray Review: Blinded by the Light
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by James Mangold, following up his dark and brilliant X-Men spinoff Logan, Ford v Ferrari is a solid piece of mainstream entertainment that feels muscular in its construction. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the friendship between Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), a race car… Read More Review: Ford v Ferrari
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A pint-sized Superbad that sets the action in middle school instead of high school, Good Boys is an enjoyable comedy from producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that features potty-mouthed pre-teens as its stars. The film follows Max (Jacob Tremblay), Thor (Brady Noon) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams),… Read More Blu-ray Review: Good Boys
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Despite receiving mixed reviews upon its release in 1980, and famously being disavowed by Stephen King himself who felt that it wasn’t an accurate adaptation of his book, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is now rightfully regarded as one of the greatest horror films of all time and is… Read More Review: Doctor Sleep
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A spinoff to the blockbuster franchise, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw brings together best frenemies Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) for a mission, when both men are recruited to track down a rogue MI6 agent named Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), who is in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Set in the 1950s in New York City, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a private detective with Tourette syndrome. He twitches and tics, his mind obsessing over certain phrases and making him repeat them, only getting reprieve from this when he self-medicates with marijuana and other… Read More Review: Motherless Brooklyn
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