By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) We are currently in uncharted territory. With the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world, the economy has been brought to its knees, and one of the big casualties of this are movie theatres. Due to medical recommendations to practise social distancing and stay at home, all theatres have been… Read More Review: Sonic the Hedgehog (Early Digital Release)
By John Corrado Exactly 25 years ago today, on March 31st, 1995, the road trip comedy Tommy Boy was released in theatres in North America. In honour of the occasion, Paramount sent me over a copy of the 2017 Blu-ray re-release, dubbed the Holy Schnike Edition, for review. I had seen the film before, and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tommy Boy: Holy Schnike Edition (25th Anniversary)
By John Corrado The ninth and final chapter in the Skywalker Saga, J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now available to watch digitally, and it’s being released on Blu-ray today. While I personally found the film to be a bit disappointing, especially as the conclusion to a saga over forty years in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
By John Corrado Created by the late Stephen Hillenburg, the talking yellow sea sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants first made his debut on TV in 1999, and the wildly popular cartoon is still going strong over twenty years later. Now the complete eleventh season of the show is being released on DVD this week, in a… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Eleventh Season
By John Corrado Sam Mendes’ 1917 was not only one of the finest movies of 2019 but also one of the year’s most technically brilliant, with the entire film assembled to appear as a single take, putting us in the trenches right alongside two young soldiers (George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman) in World War I.… Read More Blu-ray Review: 1917
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Richard Jewell was a security guard in Atlanta who always dreamed of being in law enforcement, and finally got his moment when he saved countless lives while he was on duty at Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, and spotted a suspicious bag under a bench that… Read More Blu-ray Review: Richard Jewell
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Irish ghost comedy Extra Ordinary, which was the opening night film at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival last year where it played extremely well with the packed audience of horror fans, offers a fun and surprisingly charming twist on the supernatural genre. Laced with a quirky… Read More Review: Extra Ordinary
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Written and directed by British screenwriter William Nicholson, who based the story on his own parents, Hope Gap is the sort of quiet drama that gets by almost entirely on its performances. The main characters are Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy), an old married couple who… Read More Review: Hope Gap
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Dave Bautista tries to pull a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in My Spy, seemingly copying the career choices of his fellow wrestler turned actor to star in this kids action comedy as a CIA agent who becomes the unlikely father figure to a precocious child. And if Bautista… Read More Review: My Spy
By John Corrado Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 Bible epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston in one of his most iconic roles as Moses and based on stories from the Old Testament, remains among the most famous Biblical films of all time. The film is being reissued on Blu-ray this week in a limited edition… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Ten Commandments: 1923 & 1956 Feature Films DigiBook
By John Corrado John Krasinski’s monster movie A Quiet Place, a surprise hit at the box office when it came out in 2018, is being reissued on 4K Ultra HD this week in a brand new Mondo X SteelBook edition. It’s timed perfectly to coincide with the theatrical release of A Quiet Place Part II on… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: A Quiet Place: Mondo X SteelBook
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) In Run This Town, a Canadian political satire that serves as the feature debut of writer-director Ricky Tollman, a young upstart journalist named Bram (Ben Platt) tries to track down a video of the Mayor of Toronto smoking crack cocaine, as the mayor’s handlers led by “special assistant”… Read More Review: Run This Town
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest social realist drama from veteran English filmmaker Ken Loach, Sorry We Missed You explores many of the same themes of systemic poverty and the struggles faced by those who aren’t at the top of the economic ladder as his Palme d’Or-winning previous film I, Daniel Blake.… Read More Review: Sorry We Missed You
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 22nd feature from Disney and Pixar, Onward is an entertaining and emotionally resonant animated adventure that imagines a “suburban fantasy world” that has lost its sense of wonder and magic. You see, in days of yore real magic used to exist in this world, but it has… Read More Review: Onward
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