By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) There are some films that leave me scratching my head as to why they have been so acclaimed. And Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a belated sequel to the 2006 film which finds actor Sacha Baron Cohen reprising his role as fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, is one of them.… Read More Review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) A Korean-American family in the 1980s moves to Arkansas in search of a better life in filmmaker Lee Issac Chung’s deeply personal yet universally relatable Minari. The father, Jacob (Steven Yeun), moves his wife Monica (Yeri Han) and their two kids Anne (Noel Cho) and David (Alan Kim)… Read More VOD Review: Minari
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Palm Springs, the new time loop romantic comedy from the Lonely Island guys, is a film that takes many of its cues from the 1993 classic Groundhog Day, a work so iconic that it’s title has become shorthand for every other story of this type. Andy Samberg, who… Read More Review: Palm Springs
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing the John Hughes 5-Movie Collection on Blu-ray, a five disc set that includes two of his best films (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Planes, Trains and Automobiles), two of his most underrated (Some Kind of Wonderful and She’s Having a Baby), and one of his most popular (Pretty… Read More Blu-ray Review: John Hughes 5-Movie Collection
By John Corrado In 1972, Toronto-born director Sidney J. Furie made a biopic of Billie Holiday, starring Diana Ross in an Oscar-nominated debut performance as the legendary singer. That film, Lady Sings the Blues, is being released for the first time ever on Blu-ray this week from Paramount, a release that is timed to coincide… Read More Blu-ray Review: Lady Sings the Blues
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) DreamWorks Animation returns to prehistoric times in The Croods: A New Age, the long-in-development sequel to their 2013 box office hit The Croods. This follow-up film, which is arriving on Blu-ray this week following a limited release in theatres and on PVOD, pretty much offers more of the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Croods: A New Age
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of Disney’s hottest and most profitable properties. The simple fact is that superheroes are hugely popular with audiences, and this is exactly what Disney is hoping to capitalize on with their new film Flora & Ulysses, which premieres on Disney+ today. The… Read More Disney+ Review: Flora & Ulysses
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country is a TV series that certainly isn’t lacking in terms of ambition. The series comes to us from the mind of young TV writer Misha Green, who also serves as showrunner, with both Jordan Peele and J.J.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Six songs by famed Broadway lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim are used to provide deeper insight into his life and career as a whole in director James Lapine’s documentary Six By Sondheim. The film, which premiered on HBO in 2013 and has just been released on Blu-ray as… Read More Blu-ray Review: Six By Sondheim
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) In 2019, for the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, director and editor Todd Douglas Miller delivered Apollo 11, a documentary that brilliantly assembled never before seen archival footage of the event into a compelling narrative feature. Now Miller has returned to this historic event, or, rather,… Read More Review: Apollo 11: Quarantine (Digital Release)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The lines between faith, fundamentalism, and religious extremism get increasingly blurred in Saint Maud, an unsettling mix of slow-burn horror and psychological drama that serves as a promising feature directorial debut for British writer-director Rose Glass. The film, which premiered at TIFF in 2019 as part of the… Read More VOD Review: Saint Maud
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Vince Vaughn acting like a teenage girl is the main attraction in Freaky, the very entertaining new horror comedy from Blumhouse and Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon that is arriving on Blu-ray this week. Vaughn stars in the film as a serial killer nicknamed The Butcher, who’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: Freaky
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Malcolm & Marie, writer-director Sam Levinson’s new Netflix film that you’ve probably seen people arguing about on social media, is, at the very least, somewhat of an interesting experiment. It’s a black and white, dialogue-driven drama that centres around only two people, unfolds entirely in one house, and… Read More Netflix Review: Malcolm & Marie
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) An Australian remake of director Grímur Hákonarson’s 2015 Icelandic film of the same name, which was a hit on the festival circuit, Rams follows two estranged brothers known for their prize-winning sheep. Colin (Sam Neil) and Les (Michael Caton) live in separate houses on the same farm in… Read More VOD Review: Rams
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is the third feature length adventure for the cartoon sea sponge, and also the first fully computer generated one. The result is something that, while far from being the best SpongeBob movie (which is still the 2004 original), still serves as… Read More Blu-ray Review: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Breach, a new sci-fi horror movie that is being sold pretty much solely on the presence of Bruce Willis in its supporting cast, is one of those films that feels like its plot has been copied and pasted from much better sources. The film is set in the… Read More DVD Review: Breach
By John Corrado Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are an old married couple who fight to save their grandson when their daughter-in-law (Kayli Carter) marries into a violent hillbilly family. This is the basic premise behind filmmaker Thomas Bezucha’s neo-Western thriller Let Him Go, which is arriving on Blu-ray this week. This is a prime… Read More Blu-ray Review: Let Him Go
By John Corrado One of the movies that I really enjoyed last year that seemed to sort of slip through the cracks was the horror film Come Play, which is now available on Blu-ray. The film did receive a limited theatrical release in Canada for Halloween when cinemas were briefly reopen, but the pandemic unfortunately… Read More Blu-ray Review: Come Play
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