By John Corrado This is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release. For my full thoughts on the film itself, including my star rating, please read my original review right here. In the Heights, director Jon M. Chu’s big screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton musical, is receiving a physical media release this week… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: In the Heights
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A followup to the 2018 film Peter Rabbit, which served as a modernized adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s classic books, Peter Rabbit 2 is a bigger in scope and more self-aware sequel. It also addresses some of the problems of the first one (which I still kinda liked, by… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Peter Rabbit 2
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Sean Penn’s latest film as a director, and the first that he stars in as well, Flag Day is based on journalist Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life. The book, which has been adapted for the screen with mixed results… Read More Review: Flag Day
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) What’s the difference between “real” friends and “vacation” friends? The former stick by you through thick and thin, where as the latter you befriend for a limited amount of time, fully expecting the interactions to be transitory. But what happens if vacation friends come back into your life… Read More Review: Vacation Friends
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The third film in the Conjuring series, and the eighth in the franchise if you count all the spinoffs, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It offers another story taken from the case files of noted paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga). This… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) “So may we start?” These are the words that the film’s cast, flanked by a chorus of backup singers, sings during the rapturous, single-take opening sequence of Annette, asking for the audience’s attention as they request to start the show. Taking us from inside a studio and out… Read More Review: Annette
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) An assassin sets out to avenge the death of her mentor and father figure in The Protégé, a passable but somewhat disappointing new action thriller from Casino Royale director Martin Campbell that is elevated by the casting of Maggie Q and Michael Keaton, but bogged down by a… Read More Review: The Protégé
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) When I say that PAW Patrol: The Movie, a feature length spinoff of the popular Canadian children’s television show, is surprisingly pretty good, I feel like I should clarify that statement by adding “for a PAW Patrol movie.” I do not say this to throw any shade on… Read More Review: PAW Patrol: The Movie
By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released a new Blu-ray edition of Robert Altman’s 1975 classic Nashville on Blu-ray, which has been remastered from a 4K scan of original elements. A mix of music movie, character drama and political film, Nashville serves a mosaic portrait of two dozen different characters whose stories intersect over five… Read More Blu-ray Review: Nashville
By John Corrado Today is Friday the 13th, and Paramount has taken advantage of the date to release the new Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection on Blu-ray this week. The set features the first eight films in the classic 1980s slasher series bundled together in one case, with newly remastered versions of the original four.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) I missed the feeling of sitting in a theatre and being pleasantly surprised by how good something was. That’s the experience I had last week at the morning press screening of Free Guy, director Shawn Levy’s new high concept comedy that is set within the confines of a… Read More Review: Free Guy
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Following the wild successes of Loki, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and WandaVision on Disney+ earlier this year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now delivering its first official animated series with What If…?, which takes advantage of the medium to offer a series of condensed side adventures… Read More Disney+ Review: What If…? (First Three Episodes)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A British journalist befriends an ISIS recruiter online in Profile, director Timur Bekmambetov’s surprisingly engaging thriller which takes place entirely on a computer screen. Bekmambetov is no stranger to this format, having produced the two Unfriended films and Aneesh Chaganty’s acclaimed Searching. While Profile is not quite as… Read More Blu-ray Review: Profile
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) In 2019, Nickelodeon rebooted the fan favourite 1990s kids show Are You Afraid of the Dark? for a limited event series. The result was a surprisingly solid three-part miniseries that was successful enough to warrant renewal for a second instalment. The second season, subtitled Are You Afraid of… Read More DVD Review: Are You Afraid of the Dark? Curse of the Shadows
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Two lads end up on the run with a gangster’s stepdaughter and a bag containing fifteen kilos of MDMA in the Irish film Pixie, a mix of dark comedy and crime caper that is mildly enjoyable but ends up feeling like a patchwork of its influences. The two… Read More DVD Review: Pixie
By John Corrado Back in May, Paramount released the John Wayne 14-Movie Collection on DVD, a mammoth set featuring films from three decades of the iconic actor’s career. The 14 films included in the set are: Hondo (1953), Island in the Sky (1953), The High and the Mighty (1954), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence… Read More DVD Review: John Wayne Essential 14-Movie Collection
By John Corrado Pixar’s latest film Luca, which was released exclusively on Disney Plus on June 18th, is now available across a variety of other Digital and physical media platforms as of this week. Set on the Italian Riviera, and loosely based on director Enrico Casarosa’s own childhood in Italy, Luca follows two young sea… Read More Pixar’s Luca is Now Available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) It’s an old maxim that sequels are usually bigger but not always better than the original, yet in the case of A Quiet Place Part II, it’s a little bit of both. The film is a follow up to writer-director-star John Krasinski’s 2018 film A Quiet Place, a… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: A Quiet Place Part II (Steelbook Edition)
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