By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) While social media sites like Facebook and Twitter sell themselves as being open for anyone to post anything, they in reality all have strict guidelines that are heavily enforced by anonymous content moderators. The majority of the work these “cleaners” do is outsourced to other countries like the… Read More Review: The Cleaners
We launched One Movie, Our Views a decade ago tonight, which means we’ve been writing about movies for a whole ten years now! It’s hard to believe it has been so long, as it feels like only yesterday that we were just starting out and posting our reviews of Get Smart. We’ve obviously gone through… Read More Here’s to Ten Years!
By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released the Elvis Presley: 5 Film Collection on DVD, a new set that includes his films G.I. Blues (1960), Blue Hawaii (1961), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Fun in Acapulco (1963), and Roustabout (1964). I’m a pretty big Elvis fan, and consider his films to be somewhat of a guilty pleasure having seen… Read More DVD Review: Elvis Presley: 5 Film Collection
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) It’s been fourteen years since The Incredibles came out in 2004, and now writer-director Brad Bird has finally given us the sequel that fans have been eagerly anticipating for ages. So was the long wait worth it for Incredibles 2? The answer to that would have to be… Read More Review: Incredibles 2
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Seven years after losing her father (Dominic West), Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) discovers the many puzzles that he left behind in his work as an archaeologist, and sets out to solve the mystery behind his disappearance. Teaming up with Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), who is captaining his own… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tomb Raider
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A belated sequel to the 2011 film Gnomeo & Juliet, Sherlock Gnomes finds star-crossed lovers Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt) being moved to London, where their owners now share a garden. But when their fellow lawn decorations mysteriously go missing, they must enlist the help of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sherlock Gnomes
By John Corrado A pair of classic comedies from the 1980s that share the same director in John Landis and the same star in Eddie Murphy, Trading Places and Coming to America are both celebrating anniversaries this year, and are getting brand new Blu-ray releases to honour the occasion. Trading Places: Released to wild success in… Read More Blu-ray Reviews: Trading Places: 35th Anniversary Edition and Coming to America: 30th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado This year marks the 55th anniversary of the classic 1963 comedy The Nutty Professor, and in honour of this occasion, Paramount is releasing it as part of the Jerry Lewis: 10 Film Collection, a DVD set that comes highly recommended for fans of his work. The set features a solid selection of… Read More DVD Review: Jerry Lewis: 10 Film Collection
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Morgan Neville, following his Oscar-winning 20 Feet from Stardom and the excellent Best of Enemies, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? looks at the life and career of Fred Rogers, the unlikely star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. With his soft voice and gentle way of speaking, Fred Rogers had a true knack for… Read More Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Focusing on the 2015 trial of Oskar Gröning, a former SS guard who served as a bookkeeper at Auschwitz and was put on trial in Germany at 94 years old for his involvement in the Holocaust, The Accountant of Auschwitz is a fascinating and multilayered documentary. Facing charges for the murder of… Read More Review: The Accountant of Auschwitz
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The first thing we see onscreen in Hereditary is a newspaper obituary for the elderly matriarch of the Graham family, telling us she is survived by her daughter Annie (Toni Collete), son-in-law Steve (Gabriel Byrne), and grandchildren Peter (Alex Wolff) and Charlie (Milly Shapiro). This nicely sets the tone for… Read More Review: Hereditary
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) is a Nigerian immigrant working for a pharmaceutical company in Chicago. But when things go wrong on a routine trip to Mexico to visit their supplier, he ends up in way over his head. This is the basic set-up for Gringo, which plays like… Read More Blu-ray Review: Gringo
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura’s popular graphic novel of the same name, I Kill Giants is the story of Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe), a teenaged outsider who escapes from relentless bullying at school and problems at home by immersing herself in an elaborate fantasy world. Barbara… Read More Blu-ray Review: I Kill Giants
By John Corrado The latest addition to Disney’s Signature Collection is their 1953 animated classic Peter Pan, which also happens to be celebrating it’s 65th anniversary this year. A spirited take on J.M. Barrie’s classic novel and stage play, which Walt Disney savvily acquired the rights to in 1938 with the full intention of turning… Read More Blu-ray Review: Peter Pan: The Signature Collection
By John Corrado Based on Madeline L’Engle’s classic 1962 novel of the same name, which has been brought to the screen by director Ava DuVernay, Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry (Storm Reid), an adolescent girl who has to travel across the universe in order to rescue her physicist father (Chris Pine). Although it didn’t… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Wrinkle in Time
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) To watch First Reformed is to wrestle with the same questions that are plaguing the main character Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke), a tormented priest who is going through a profound crisis of faith, as he struggles to reconcile himself to the fact that human beings are desecrating the… Read More Review: First Reformed
By John Corrado One of the more interesting films to come out so far this year, Alex Garland’s Annihilation is being released on Blu-ray today. The film follows Lena (Natalie Portman), an ex-soldier turned biology professor who, after her husband (Oscar Isaac) returns permanently changed, goes to explore a strange phenomenon called The Shimmer, a quarantined area… Read More Blu-ray Review: Annihilation
By John Corrado After winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film a few months back, Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman is now available on Blu-ray. The Chilean drama follows Marina (Daniela Vega), a transwoman who struggles to grieve when her older lover Orlando (Francisco Reyes) drops dead and his family doesn’t want her to attend… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Fantastic Woman
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Based on Ian McEwan’s bestselling novella, which the author himself adapted into a screenplay, and beautifully brought to the screen by first time director Dominic Cooke, On Chesil Beach is a classic romantic drama that engages simply because of the strength of its characters and storytelling. The year is 1962,… Read More Review: On Chesil Beach
Solo: A Star Wars Story Review By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest entry into Disney’s rapidly expanding Star Wars universe, Solo: A Star Wars Story is a prequel to the original film that seeks to explore the origins of everyone’s favourite scoundrel and rogue pilot Han Solo, and does so with fairly… Read More Three Views: Solo: A Star Wars Story
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