By John Corrado Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is a magnificent love letter to Los Angeles in 1969, following faded TV actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), and actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), reimagining real life events to reclaim the mythos of that crucial… Read More Blu-ray Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A co-production between DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio, the American animation company’s outpost in China, Abominable is the story of a girl and her yeti that plays like a minor response to the success of their How to Train Your Dragon films. Directed by Jill Culton, who has… Read More Blu-ray Review: Abominable
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) One of the most surprising things to happen this year at TIFF was the amount of praise that Hustlers received following its gala premiere. I saw the film about a week before the festival and thought it was a mildly entertaining but thoroughly unremarkable piece of disposable entertainment. I… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hustlers
By John Corrado Directed by Casey Affleck from his own screenplay, Light of My Life is a quietly effective survival drama set in a post-apocalyptic future world where a mysterious illness wiped out the female half of the population, leaving a father (Affleck) struggling to keep his preteen daughter (Anna Pniowsky) hidden from other men.… Read More DVD Review: Light of My Life
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