By John Corrado Nearly a century ago, Universal Pictures revolutionized the monster movie genre, and set the high bar for how iconic characters like Count Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster and The Wolf Man would be portrayed onscreen. Now the studio has released four of their classic monster movies on 4K Ultra HD in the Universal Classic… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror Collection
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The feature narrative debut of documentary filmmaker Evan Jackson Leong, Snakehead is a gritty crime drama set in the underworld of New York City’s Chinatown. The film opens with title cards explaining that, despite the “walls of entry,” illegal migration is still thriving and Chinese human smugglers known… Read More VOD Review: Snakehead
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Director Adam Robitel’s 2019 film Escape Room wasn’t exactly great cinema, but it was still somewhat of a pleasant surprise. It was a guilty pleasure sort of movie that offered a decent amount of self-contained thrills in a short amount of time, playing out like a PG-13 riff… Read More Blu-ray Review: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
By John Corrado This is a review of the Blu-ray release. For my full thoughts on the film itself, including my star rating, please read my original review right here. Director Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater was one of the better movies I saw in theatres this summer, and the film is being released on Blu-ray and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Stillwater
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series on Blu-ray, in a limited edition Steelbook collection. The release coincides with this year’s 55th anniversary of when the show first aired on NBC in 1966. The hefty box set includes all 79 episodes of the series that… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: The Original Series (Steelbook Collection)
By John Corrado On October 5th, Paramount released the Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection for the first time on Blu-ray. It’s timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, director Blake Edwards’ 1961 adaptation of the Truman Capote novella, which features Hepburn in the iconic role of Holly Golightly. In addition to Breakfast… Read More Blu-ray Review: Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Truman Capote was an author whose real life persona loomed as large as the characters he wrote about in his stories. Capote’s distinctive high voice, short stature, and flamboyant personality made him stand out in his day, with his irredeemable penchant for gossip and being at the centre… Read More VOD Review: The Capote Tapes
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A reboot/spinoff of the two live action films G.I. Joe and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, both somewhat stalled attempts at starting a franchise based on the Hasbro toys, comic books and cartoon series, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is technically the best of the G.I. Joe movies, but that really… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (Steelbook Edition)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) M. Night Shyamalan is a filmmaker whose rises and falls over the years have been well documented. And, while he hasn’t quite regained the early highs of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, he has rebounded quite nicely in the past few years following a string of disappointments.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Old
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Mass, the feature directorial debut of actor turned filmmaker Fran Kranz, is a film that explores a hot button topic (in this case mass shootings and gun control), and manages to do so in a way that feels honest instead of exploiting it for easy melodrama. The film… Read More Review: Mass
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Dear Future Children, which won the Audience Award at this year’s Hot Docs, is a documentary that focuses on a trio of young female activists fighting for their futures in different parts of the world. Director Franz Böhm introduces us to Rayen in Chile, Pepper in Hong Kong… Read More Review: Dear Future Children
By John Corrado In 1982, Eddie Murphy made his big screen debut in director Walter Hill’s buddy cop movie 48 Hrs., playing smooth-talking convict Reggie Hammond to Nick Nolte’s gruff cop Jack Cates. It was well received by critics and became a box office hit, prompting Hill to reunite with Murphy and Nolte eight years… Read More Blu-ray Review: Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Arriving a full two-and-a-half decades after the original Space Jam, which fused live action and animation to bring together the worlds of professional basketball and Looney Tunes, Space Jam: A New Legacy is a sequel built squarely around nostalgia. And not just nostalgia for the 1996 film, but… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Space Jam: A New Legacy
By John Corrado ★ (out of 4) Defining Moments, which has been in the can for a little while now and is finally getting a VOD release this week, marks the final film role of Burt Reynolds, who passed away three years ago. But this is likely all it will be remembered for, if at… Read More VOD Review: Defining Moments
By John Corrado The legacy of Mommie Dearest, and Faye Dunaway’s performance at the centre of it, encompasses the film’s rise from critical flop to commercial success and inadvertent camp classic. And it continues to exist as all three things at once. A modern reevaluation of Mommie Dearest, which is now celebrating its 40th anniversary… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mommie Dearest (1981)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The first ever Halloween special featuring the Muppets, Muppets Haunted Mansion is a pretty irresistible crossover event that serves as both a return to form for Jim Henson’s creations, and also a fine tribute to Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. The special is set in a Muppet version of the… Read More Disney+ Review: Muppets Haunted Mansion
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Written and directed by German filmmaker Thor Klein, Adventures of a Mathematician is a biopic of Stanislaw Ulam (Philippe Tlokinski), a Polish-Jewish immigrant who worked on the Manhattan Project and was one of the scientists who helped develop the hydrogen bomb. Klein’s screenplay details how Ulam, who fled… Read More VOD Review: Adventures of a Mathematician
The Joy of Movies 