By John Corrado The directorial debut of Ernest R. Dickerson (Spike Lee’s cinematographer), the 1992 drama Juice follows Q (Omar Epps), Bishop (Tupaac Shakur), Raheem (Khalil Kain) and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins), four friends in Harlem who are after the power they call “juice.” Following the 25th anniversary Blu-ray release in 2017, Paramount has now given… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Juice: 30th Anniversary
By John Corrado Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, the filmmaker’s adaptation of the first half of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel, was one of the biggest movies of 2021. It’s a massive film in terms of scope that delivers immersive visuals and rich world-building, brought to life with an all-star cast. This is the definition of a… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Dune
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 27th film in the episodic Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the eighth live action Spider-Man solo movie in two decades with the third actor to take on the role, Spider-Man: No Way Home has a lot of mythology to draw upon and has to bring together a lot… Read More Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The opening scene of writer-director JJ Winlove’s Australian dramedy June Again tries to put us in the mind of its protagonist, June Wilton (Noni Hazlehurst), a woman suffering from vascular dementia following a stroke five years earlier. People around her seem to appear and disappear as the camera… Read More VOD Review: June Again
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest animated film from producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, following their Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines is a madcap adventure from Sony Pictures Animation that mixes sci-fi action and zany comedy with sincere family drama about a queer, film-loving teen reconnecting… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Mitchells vs. The Machines
As of today, January 1st, 2022, One Movie, Our Views (onemovieourviews.com) is officially being rebranded as The Joy of Movies (thejoyofmovies.ca), a name better suited to the current format of the site. This change has been a long time coming, and is just the latest in a line of changes that the site has gone… Read More New Year, New Name! One Movie, Our Views is now officially The Joy of Movies
By John Corrado Martin Scorsese was in his early seventies when he released The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013, and this fact continues to amaze me. It’s a film so full of energy and excess that you could think it was made by a filmmaker half that age, but it’s equally fitting that it… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Wolf of Wall Street (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado Cecil B. DeMille’s Biblical epic The Ten Commandments is one of the biggest and most beloved studio pictures of all time and, in my opinion, the nearly four hour film from 1956 still holds up quite well in terms of its grandeur and scope. In honour of the film’s 65th anniversary, Paramount… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Ten Commandments: 65th Anniversary (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Sean Baker makes films about the types of Americans that don’t usually get shown on movie screens, or, worse, get looked down upon by the coastal elites. You know, like sex workers, those living in abject poverty, and the types of “forgotten people” that may have voted for… Read More Review: Red Rocket
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Nightmare Alley is Guillermo del Toro’s followup to his surprise Oscar winner The Shape of Water. It serves as both a remake of the 1947 film noir of the same name and a new adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s novel from a year earlier, with the beloved filmmaker delivering… Read More Review: Nightmare Alley
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Antoine Fuqua’s Infinite is a sci-fi action flick that imagines a world of reincarnated souls where a group of people called Infinites have the ability to remember their past lives. Within this group, there are two subgroups; the “believers,” who view their ability as a gift, and “nihilists”… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Infinite
By John Corrado Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude flopped upon its release in theatres on December 20th, 1971, with its unique tone and delicate subject matter being a tough sell for mainstream audiences, before steadily gaining status as a beloved cult classic for these very same reasons. The film, which brilliantly mixes humour that is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Harold and Maude (1971)
By John Corrado The MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head was a pop culture staple of the 1990s, following the misadventures of two idiot teenaged slackers voiced by the show’s creator, Mike Judge. A feature length film, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, was released in theatres at the height of the show’s popularity on December… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) In his five decades of making feature films, Steven Spielberg has never directed a full-on musical, but his visual style and cinematic sense of scope has always suggested he would be good at one. This all changes with West Side Story, his long-gestating remake of the 1961 Oscar-winning… Read More Review: West Side Story
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Adam McKay is a director who has gone from making off the wall comedies like Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Step Brothers to Oscar-winning prestige pictures like the financial satire The Big Short (which was genuinely very good) and the Dick Cheney biopic Vice (which was uneven but still… Read More Review: Don’t Look Up
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Cry Macho, the latest film directed by Clint Eastwood, finds the veteran actor and filmmaker appearing in front of the camera once again, following his much touted “final role” in the 2018 film The Mule, to deliver what is now said to be his actual swan song as… Read More Blu-ray Review: Cry Macho
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After switching gears and directing the comic book movie Aquaman, Warner Bros. has allowed James Wan to return to his low-budget horror movie roots with Malignant, an absolutely gnarly little film that I’m honestly impressed the studio even agreed to put out. Wan, who has kickstarted no less… Read More Blu-ray Review: Malignant
By John Corrado In 1978, Warren Beatty co-directed, co-wrote, produced and starred in the comedy fantasy Heaven Can Wait, which went on to be nominated for nine Oscars including Best Picture (which it lost to The Deer Hunter). Now Paramount has released the film for the first time on Blu-ray, fully restored and remastered from… Read More Blu-ray Review: Heaven Can Wait (1978)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Joanna Hogg’s 2019 film The Souvenir was a low-key, semi-autobiographical drama about a film student, Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne), in the 1980s entering into an unexpectedly complicated relationship with a slightly older man, Anthony (Tom Burke). The film ended on a sombre note, followed by a title card… Read More Review: The Souvenir Part II
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Nia DaCosta, and produced by Jordan Peele under his Monkeypaw banner, Candyman is a legacy sequel that directly follows the 1992 horror film of the same name (which already received a pair of followups in 1995 and 1999). The original Candyman was Daniel Robitaille… Read More Blu-ray Review: Candyman
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