By John Corrado Based on a true story, Breathe dramatizes the life of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), a disability rights advocate who was struck with polio in the 1950s and left paralyzed from the neck down. Although initially confined to a hospital bed, Robin was able to survive at home thanks to the dedication of his wife… Read More DVD Review: Breathe
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The latest from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread is said to have been inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 classic Rebecca, and it does indeed have the feel of an old romantic drama from the 1940s or ’50s, albeit with a twisted side to it that is fascinating to unravel… Read More Review: Phantom Thread
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Right from the opening scene of Logan, a brutal attempted carjacking staged in the middle of the sparse New Mexico desert, the film immediately sets itself up as offering something different from the majority of other comic book movies, let alone the ones in the X-Men universe. This… Read More Review: Logan
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Wink (Ian McLaren) is a member of the Badsville Kings, a greaser gang that tries to rule over the depressed title town in Badsville, a gritty crime drama that takes place just outside of Los Angeles and explores themes of loyalty and rivalry between gang members. When Wink falls… Read More Review: Badsville
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) When climate change starts running amok, causing devastating natural disasters around the globe, the world’s governments hire the cocky scientist Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) to set up the Dutch Boy Program, a high tech network of satellites that are connected to a space station and control the Earth’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: Geostorm
By John Corrado The latest from director Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer follows Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell), a cardiac surgeon who strikes up a strange friendship with an offbeat teen named Martin (Barry Keoghan), but things start to go horribly wrong when he brings the troubled teen home to meet his wife (Nicole… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
By John Corrado The first ever fully hand painted feature film, Loving Vincent takes place a year after the suicide of Vincent Van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk), and follows a postman’s son (Douglas Booth) who is tasked with delivering a lost letter that the Dutch artist had written to his brother, and ends up becoming intrigued… Read More iTunes Review: Loving Vincent
By John Corrado Based on a book by Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck tells the interconnecting stories of Rose (Millicent Simmonds), a young deaf girl in 1927, and Ben (Oakes Fegley), a preteen boy in the Midwest in 1973 who goes deaf when lightning strikes his house, who both run away to New York. Although the film isn’t… Read More iTunes Review: Wonderstruck
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Directed by Ai Weiwei, Human Flow is a mix of documentary and art project that offers an on the ground look at the migrant crisis in Europe, filmed over 23 different countries. The film offers a sprawling look at the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from war… Read More iTunes Review: Human Flow
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) When most people hear the name of figure skater Tonya Harding, they recall the 1994 incident when her rival Nancy Kerrigan’s knee was bashed in, mere weeks before they were both set to compete at the Olympics in Lilliehammer, Norway. But the truth is that she wasn’t even… Read More Review: I, Tonya
By John Corrado Every year, I end up seeing a lot of really good documentaries, and 2017 was no different. Between Hot Docs and TIFF, there were a lot of non-fiction films that I really liked, and that’s what I want to highlight here. There were a few buzzed about films that I didn’t get… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2017
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A long awaited follow up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 takes place thirty years after the events of the original film. Replicants are still being treated like second class citizens, and now the blade runner jobs go to other replicants, who… Read More Blu-ray Review: Blade Runner 2049
By John Corrado Adapted from Stephen King’s classic horror novel, It follows a group of misfit friends in the 1980s who dub themselves the Loser’s Club, and have to take down a demonic entity that feeds on children and manifests as a terrifying clown named Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), who terrorizes their town of Derry, Maine… Read More Blu-ray Review: It
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The directorial debut of master screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game dramatizes the true story of “poker princess” Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain). Molly is a professional skier whose athletic career falls apart after suffering a freak accident at the Olympics, to the disappointment of her father (Kevin Costner), who… Read More Review: Molly’s Game
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Seeking to solve problems of overpopulation and the rapid consumption and depletion of natural resources, a team of Norwegian scientists have discovered a process that allows people to shrink themselves down to the size of action figures, to reduce their carbon footprint. This is the basic premise behind… Read More Review: Downsizing
By John Corrado Following the wacky adventures of plastic toys Cowboy, Indian and Horse, A Town Called Panic is a stop motion animated series from Belgium that has gained somewhat of a cult following over the years. Now all twenty short films are available for the first time on Blu-ray in A Town Called Panic: The Collection, which… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Town Called Panic: The Collection
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Lloyd (Dave Franco) is a lonely teenager who is a misfit at school, but leads a double life as the powerful Green Ninja, fighting alongside a group of other ninja warriors and being trained by his wise old uncle Master Wu (Jackie Chan). But Lloyd is tired of… Read More Blu-ray Review: The LEGO Ninjago Movie
By John Corrado Telling three interconnecting stories that take place on land, on the water, and in the air, to offer an absorbing portrait of the successful attempts to evacuate 400,000 mostly British soldiers who were left trapped during the Battle of Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is a brilliantly crafted WWII epic that ranks among… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dunkirk
By John Corrado The latest from Darren Aronofsky, mother! follows a celebrated poet (Javier Bardem) and his wife (Jennifer Lawrence), who live in a decaying old house that she is fixing up to start a family, but their lives are upended when a mysterious visitor (Ed Harris) arrives at their house asking for a place… Read More Blu-ray Review: mother!
By John Corrado Before this long awaited third season of the 1990s pop culture phenomenon Twin Peaks premiered on Showtime earlier this year, channel president David Nevins promised us that it would be the “pure heroin vision of David Lynch,” and for better or for worse this is exactly what we get. Picking up exactly… Read More Blu-ray Review: Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series
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