By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by James Mangold, following up his dark and brilliant X-Men spinoff Logan, Ford v Ferrari is a solid piece of mainstream entertainment that feels muscular in its construction. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the friendship between Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), a race car… Read More Review: Ford v Ferrari
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A pint-sized Superbad that sets the action in middle school instead of high school, Good Boys is an enjoyable comedy from producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that features potty-mouthed pre-teens as its stars. The film follows Max (Jacob Tremblay), Thor (Brady Noon) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams),… Read More Blu-ray Review: Good Boys
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Despite receiving mixed reviews upon its release in 1980, and famously being disavowed by Stephen King himself who felt that it wasn’t an accurate adaptation of his book, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is now rightfully regarded as one of the greatest horror films of all time and is… Read More Review: Doctor Sleep
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A spinoff to the blockbuster franchise, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw brings together best frenemies Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) for a mission, when both men are recruited to track down a rogue MI6 agent named Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), who is in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Set in the 1950s in New York City, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a private detective with Tourette syndrome. He twitches and tics, his mind obsessing over certain phrases and making him repeat them, only getting reprieve from this when he self-medicates with marijuana and other… Read More Review: Motherless Brooklyn
By John Corrado It was a hit on Netflix, and now director Mike Flanagan’s ten-part dramatic horror series The Haunting of Hill House is available to own on Blu-ray in a 3-disc set that includes extended versions of several episodes. The series follows the Crain family, jumping back and forth between past and present to… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Haunting of Hill House
By John Corrado In honour of its 20th anniversary this year, Paramount has released a new steelbook edition of the 1999 science fiction comedy Galaxy Quest on Blu-ray. Dubbed the Never Give Up, Never Surrender Edition, this is a fairly irresistible release for fans of the cult classic film. Directed by Dean Parisot, (who is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Galaxy Quest: Collector’s Edition Steelbook
By John Corrado There has been a lot of talk about the racially charged drama Luce since it premiered at Sundance at the beginning of the year, and it’s now available on DVD as of today. The film follows a high school student named Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), an Eritrean immigrant who is the adoptive son… Read More DVD Review: Luce
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Satire is a tricky thing to properly pull off, but New Zealand actor and filmmaker Taika Waititi mostly succeeds in his latest film Jojo Rabbit, an original and daring World War II satire that is equal parts funny and moving. The film had its world premiere at the… Read More Review: Jojo Rabbit
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The latest from master filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory is a beautiful work filled with colour and emotion that is carried by a powerful, career-defining performance from Antonio Banderas, who won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his role. The story centres around an aging filmmaker… Read More Review: Pain and Glory
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, Western Stars, which was released earlier this year, is an introspective, often bittersweet concept album of sorts that tells the story of a fading Western movie star, and finds the iconic American rocker branching out to country music and performing with a thirty piece… Read More Review: Western Stars
By John Corrado It’s already made over a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and currently ranks as the second highest grossing movie of the year after Avengers: Endgame. Now Disney’s remake of The Lion King is available to own on Blu-ray as of this week. While I did enjoy this updated retelling of… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Lion King (2019)
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Director Bong Joon-ho’s first film in Korean following his two English-language movies Snowpiercer and Okja, Parasite made history earlier this year when it took home the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes, becoming the first film from South Korea to win the award. And now that I’ve seen the film, I can… Read More Review: Parasite
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Arriving in theatres a full five years after Disney’s successful live action fantasy Maleficent, which provided a loose retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale from the perspective of the original story’s villain, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is the epitome of a mildly enjoyable but also kind of… Read More Review: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
By John Corrado The Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants has been on the air since 1999, and it’s still going strong after twenty years. While the show is currently in its twelfth season on TV, the complete tenth season of the series has just been released on DVD this week. Spread over two discs, SpongeBob… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Tenth Season
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Marianne Ihlen and Leonard Cohen died within three months of each other in 2016. The two never got married or had children together, but they shared a deep bond, with her directly inspiring at least two of Cohen’s classic songs (“So Long, Marianne” and “Bird on a Wire”).… Read More DVD Review: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When a massive, Category 5 hurricane hits off the coast of Florida, Hayley (Kaya Scodelario) goes to check in on her father (Barry Pepper), and ends up trapped in the crawl space under his house with a massive alligator that has made its way down through a drainage… Read More Blu-ray Review: Crawl
By John Corrado The sophomore feature from Ari Aster, following up last year’s breakout hit Hereditary, Midsommar is an entirely unique folk horror movie set in broad daylight that offers further proof that the young director is a force to be reckoned with in terms of genre filmmaking. It’s now available on Blu-ray as of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Midsommar
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The one thing you can’t accuse the esteemed, Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee of is repeating himself or making the same movie twice. All it takes is a precursory glance at his incredibly diverse filmography to know that he hasn’t repeated himself. This is, after all, a filmmaker who… Read More Review: Gemini Man
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Rudy Ray Moore was a self-described entrepreneur and fledgling musician who worked in a record shop in the 1970s, when he decided to branch out into doing comedy records. Creating a flamboyant alter-ego named Dolemite, a foul-mouthed pimp who speaks in verse, Moore ended up becoming a massively… Read More Review: Dolemite Is My Name
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