By John Corrado Featuring excellent performances from Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet – who really should have gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Felix Van Groeningen’s powerful addiction drama Beautiful Boy is now available on Blu-ray. While Beautiful Boy has garnered some mixed reviews, this is one of those movies that I… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beautiful Boy
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The character of Venom was initially meant to be an adversary to Spider-Man. Now the popular Marvel Comics villain – who was played by Topher Grace in Sam Raimi’s 2007 blockbuster Spider-Man 3 – takes centre stage in the aptly titled Venom, and I’m honestly not exactly sure what to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Venom
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Elliot (Josh Hutcherson) is a miniature horse who has always dreamed of flying with the reindeer, and when Blitzen (Martin Short) announces his retirement right before Christmas, leaving Santa (George Buza) scrambling to find a replacement to fill his spot on the sleigh team, he sees an opportunity… Read More DVD Review: Elliot the Littlest Reindeer
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning 2015 film The Big Short was no typical financial drama. The film instead broke the fourth wall and used meta humour and a variety of other stylistic touches to offer a powerful examination of the 2008 economic crisis that was as compelling and informative as… Read More Review: Vice
By John Corrado David Gordon Green’s Halloween, which saw the return of Michael Myers forty years after John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 film, was one of the most anticipated movies of last fall, and it’s now arriving on Blu-ray. Serving as a direct followup to the original, this film finds Michael coming back to Haddonfield, Illinois… Read More Blu-ray Review: Halloween
By John Corrado Another year has come and gone. While 2018 officially ended nearly two weeks ago now, I wouldn’t be able to officially say goodbye to the year without first counting down my picks for the best films that were released within that timeframe. My list of the best documentaries of 2018 already dropped yesterday,… Read More The Best Movies of 2018
By John Corrado We have already officially closed the door on 2018, but before we entirely leave the year in the past, I would be remiss not to highlight the many wonderful films that I saw last year. My list of the best movies of 2018 will be dropping shortly, but first I would like… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2018
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Director Karyn Kusama’s latest film Destroyer opens with rogue LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) waking up in her car, which is parked under an overpass. She appears weary and beaten down – we will find out that she has succumbed to drinking as a way to quell her… Read More Review: Destroyer
By John Corrado Watching When Harry Met Sally… again, which I had the pleasure of doing the other night thanks to the new 30th anniversary edition that Shout Select just put out on Blu-ray, it’s easy to see why the film is still regarded as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time. Directed by… Read More Blu-ray Review: When Harry Met Sally…: 30th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Carl Reiner’s classic 1979 comedy The Jerk is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, an occasion that was marked by this new Blu-ray edition that was put out by Shout Select last month. The film stars Steve Martin in his breakout movie role as Navin R. Johnson, a charming simpleton who was… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Jerk: 40th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Ronald Reagan is never actually mentioned by name in White Boy Rick, but his figures often looms large behind the story, which details the human impact that the 40th President’s so-called “War on Drugs” had upon poor and minority communities. The film is based on the true story… Read More Blu-ray Review: White Boy Rick
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Adapted from Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, Juliet, Naked is a very likeable film that proves there are still many pleasures to be found within the classic romantic comedy formula when it’s done right. The film focuses on Annie (Rose Byrne), who is living a quiet… Read More DVD Review: Juliet, Naked
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The directorial debut of Paul Dano, who co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is based on Richard Ford’s 1990 novel of the same name, and is told from the point of view of its adolescent protagonist Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould). Joe is a young teenager… Read More Review: Wildlife
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Following up his Oscar-winning masterpiece Moonlight, Barry Jenkins brings James Baldwin’s work to the screen with a highly lyrical sensibility in his latest film If Beale Street Could Talk. Based on Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Tish Rivers (Kiki Layne)… Read More Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek auteur behind such singular works as Dogtooth, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, crafts his most widely accessible film yet with The Favourite, without losing any of his usual bite. Set in England in the early years of the 18th century,… Read More Review: The Favourite
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The second feature directed by Brady Corbet, an actor who made his directorial debut in 2015 with The Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux focuses on the anatomy of a modern pop star whose life has been impacted by violence. The first half of the film focuses on… Read More Review: Vox Lux
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) There are eight hundred dogs born every year at Guide Dogs for the Blind, only three hundred of which will actually make the cut as working guide dogs. The stories of five of these adorable Labrador puppies, and the humans who help raise them, are told in Pick… Read More Review: Pick of the Litter
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Arriving a whole 54 years after the 1964 original, Mary Poppins Returns breaks the record for the longest amount of time between the release of a sequel and that of its predecessor. This would be an interesting fact on its own, but it would be little more than… Read More Review: Mary Poppins Returns
By John Corrado To say that Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself has been dividing audiences since it premiered at TIFF would be putting it mildly. I spoke to several people during the festival who loved this sprawling, multi-character drama that spans a couple of decades and unfolds in both America and Spain, while critics were quick to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Life Itself
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on a true story from World War I, Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero is a charming animated film that recounts the tale of the first dog to ever be given the rank of Sergeant by the United States Army, and the most decorated pooch in American history. Stubby… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
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