By John Corrado The most recent piece of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange introduces us to Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), a neurosurgeon who injures his hands and searches for healing in Nepal, leading him to be trained in the dark arts of being able to manipulate space and time by the Ancient One (Tilda… Read More Blu-ray Review: Doctor Strange
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) is a Canadian paratrooper who is sent to Morocco during World War II, and teams up with French Resistance fighter Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard) on a mission to assassinate the German Ambassador. Posing as husband and wife, the two embark on a steamy love affair… Read More Blu-ray Review: Allied
Get Out Review By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) have been dating for several months, and the time has finally come for him to meet her parents. But he is black and she is white, and Chris is worried about how her rich and very… Read More Three Views: Get Out
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Melanie (Sennia Nanua) is a young girl who is kept locked up in a cell, being fed worms and strapped to a wheelchair so she can attend classes with her sympathetic teacher, Ms. Justineau (Gemma Arterton). You see, human civilization has been all but destroyed by a zombie… Read More Review: The Girl With All The Gifts
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) was an army medic from Virginia, who enlisted in World War II on the condition that he wouldn’t have to carry a rifle or take any lives. Despite initially facing accusations of cowardice from his fellow soldiers, and the threat of being court marshalled, he become… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hacksaw Ridge
By John Corrado To mark the release of the new live action Beauty and the Beast next month, Disney is hosting a special exhibit at Casa Loma in Toronto this weekend. We got the chance to preview the exhibit last night at a special event, complete with an aerial show and ballroom dance, and the whole… Read More #BeOurGuestTO: Beauty and the Beast Exhibit at Casa Loma
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Taking a very meta approach to exploring its material, My Scientology Movie becomes just as much about the intense blowbacks that come with trying to make a documentary about Scientology, as it is about the infamous organization and its cultish ideology. The film follows the BBC’s Louis Theroux as he tries to investigate… Read More Review: My Scientology Movie
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After becoming known as a hero in Iraq when his attempts to rescue Seargeant Shroom (Vin Diesel) are caught on camera, young private Billy Lynn (James Alwyn) is brought back to Texas with his fellow soldiers from Bravo Squad for a victory tour in 2004. The soldiers are set to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
By John Corrado Nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, Arrival follows linguistics professor Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) who is recruited by the military to try and communicate with otherworldly visitors, after twelve giant egg-shaped alien spaceships land around the world. Carried by a moving performance from Amy Adams, whose lack of an Oscar nomination is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Arrival
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on those classic dolls with the big hair that originated in the 1960s, DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls is a film that has enough genuine charm to work on its own terms as a highly entertaining musical. The Trolls live a blissfully happy existence in a colourful village, with designated… Read More Blu-ray Review: Trolls
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Aishoplan Nurgaiv is a thirteen year old girl in Mongolia who dreams of being an eagle hunter, a tradition in their nomadic community that is usually passed down from fathers to sons. But with the help of her father, who believes that girls can do anything boys can do, Aishoplan… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Eagle Huntress
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) John (Paul Rudd) dreams of being a movie star, and his roommate Elliot (Patton Oswalt) is trying to get his career going as a screenwriter. Desperate for fame before hitting thirty, the two slackers set out to become instant celebrities, seeking attention at all costs. First they unsuccessfully try… Read More Blu-ray Review: Nerdland
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After being forced to flee their Tehran apartment due to sudden construction that threatens to topple the building, Emad (Shabab Hosseini) and his wife Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) take out a lease on a shabby new room. But the old tenant refuses to remove her stuff, and when an incident… Read More Review: The Salesman
By John Corrado Based on the bestselling books by Dan Brown, the 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, its 2009 sequel Angels & Demons and last year’s most recent instalment Inferno are now available together on Blu-ray in the nicely compact Robert Langdon 3-Movie Set. Sharing the same director and star in Ron Howard and Tom Hanks,… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and Inferno
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A followup to the 2012 film, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back finds its title character (Tom Cruise) no longer working for the military. But when he finds out that his old friend Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders) is under investigation for espionage, they go on the run to clear her name. Also… Read More Blu-ray Review: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
By John Corrado Phiona Mutesi (Madine Nalwanga) is a girl living in the slums of Uganda with her mother (Lupita Nyong’o) and siblings. When she is taken under the wing of kind coach Robert Ketende (David Oyelowo), he helps foster the innate talent she has for chess to become a world champion. Based on a true story,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Queen of Katwe
By John Corrado As Disney continues to reissue animated classics on Blu-ray, the studio’s timeless 1940 film Pinocchio is the latest addition to their Signature Collection. Based on an Italian novel, the film tells the story of a wooden marionette named Pinocchio (Dickie Jones) whose lonely creator Geppetto (Christian Rub) dreams of him being a real boy, and has his wish granted… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pinocchio: The Signature Collection
By John Corrado With my list of the best movies of 2016 having gone up over the weekend, it’s time for my rundown of the best documentaries of last year. This list took me a while to put together, with a lot of deliberation between order of the films, but I’m happy with the way things have finally… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2016
By John Corrado I don’t think anyone would deny that 2016 was a year of ups and downs, both at the movies and especially in real life. But the greatness of some of the films that came out of last year in spite of all the craziness and political uncertainty can’t be denied, and those… Read More The Best Movies of 2016
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) is a prospector in Texas who is desperate for a big break and becomes convinced that he can strike gold in the jungles of Indonesia. So in 1988 he teams up with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Remírez) to help him excavate and get their commodity on the stock… Read More Review: Gold
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