By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Produced by J.J. Abrams, Overlord is a World War II adventure that reimagines the war as a sort of horror movie, complete with gory violence and twisted Nazi experiments that are the stuff of nightmares. The film unfolds on the eve of D-Day, and follows a group of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Overlord
By John Corrado Who drew the dicks? That’s the question at the centre of the Netflix series American Vandal, the first season of which was released on DVD last week from Paramount. Created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, American Vandal unfolds in a mockumentary style that parodies popular true crime series like Serial and Making a… Read More DVD Review: American Vandal: Season One
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A passion project for producer and co-writer James Cameron, that is finally coming to the screen after years in development thanks to the help of director Robert Rodriguez, Alita: Battle Angel is an often eye-popping science fiction spectacle that offers a seamless mix of live action and visual effects.… Read More Review: Alita: Battle Angel
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Danica (Tika Sumpter) is a successful career woman who seems to have her life together, with a good office job at a marketing firm and a steady online relationship with her dream man, whom she has never even met. But Danica’s life is upended when her unhinged sister… Read More Blu-ray Review: Nobody’s Fool
By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released the Star Trek: 10-Movie Stardate Collection on Blu-ray. The set comes with all six films starring the cast of the original series, as well as the four featuring the characters from The Next Generation. The films included here are Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: 10-Movie Stardate Collection
By John Corrado Along with The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection, The Paul Newman 6-Movie Collection was also released on DVD last week from Paramount. The six films included in the set are Hud (1963), A New Kind of Love (1963), Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Nobody’s Fool (1994), Twilight (1998) and Road to Perdition (2002). While a lot of Newman’s most iconic… Read More DVD Review: The Paul Newman 6-Movie Collection
By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection on DVD, featuring a selection of her classic films conveniently packaged together in a single case. Listed in chronological order, the set includes the films Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), War and Peace (1956), Funny Face (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Paris When It Sizzles (1964), and My Fair… Read More DVD Review: The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Nels Coxman (Liam Neeson) is a mild-mannered snowplow driver who, near the beginning of Cold Pursuit, is named “Citizen of the Year” in Kehoe, the fictional Colorado ski town where the film’s action unfolds. When his son Kyle (Micheál Richardson) is killed by a brutal drug cartel, Nels… Read More Review: Cold Pursuit
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A survival movie in the most stripped down and literal sense of the term, Arctic centres around Overgård (Mads Mikkelsen), a man who is stranded alone in the middle of the Arctic following a plane crash. We are never explicitly told what transpired, and we don’t know exactly how… Read More Review: Arctic
To celebrate last month’s home entertainment release of the entertaining sequel Goosebumps 2, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has provided us with a copy of the Blu-ray to give away to one lucky Canadian reader! To enter, simply send an email to info@onemoviefiveviews.com with the subject line “Win a Copy of Goosebumps 2 on Blu-ray!”, or you… Read More Contest: Win a Copy of Goosebumps 2 on Blu-ray!
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A followup to the surprisingly good 2015 film Goosebumps, Goosebumps 2 finds a new group of young protagonists accidentally unleashing monsters from author R.L. Stine’s classic series of books. This film is also set at Halloween, and follows Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris), two kids… Read More Blu-ray Review: Goosebumps 2
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing the Netflix film The Cloverfield Paradox on Blu-ray, both on its own and as part of a new 3-movie collection that also includes the 2008 found footage film Cloverfield and the 2016 followup 10 Cloverfield Lane. Famously released on Netflix as a surprise directly following last year’s Super… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Cloverfield Paradox and The Cloverfield 3-Movie Collection
By John Corrado It’s hard to believe that SpongeBob SquarePants – the adventures of a bright yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea – has been on the air for twenty years now, but it’s true. Created by Stephen Hillenburg, who sadly passed away late last year, the show premiered on Nickelodeon… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The First & Second Seasons and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Third & Fourth Seasons 2-Season Gift Sets
By John Corrado The directorial debut of actor Jonah Hill, Mid90s is coming to Blu-ray this week, and it’s one of those small gems that absolutely deserves to find more of an audience at home. Centred around a group of skater kids in the 1990s, this is a funny and touching coming of age film… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mid90s
By John Corrado After becoming a smash hit at the box office throughout the holiday season, Illumination’s surprisingly great animated Dr. Seuss adaptation The Grinch is being released on Blu-ray this week. I really enjoyed this one when I first saw it at a screening back in November, and it’s actually grown on me quite a… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Grinch
By John Corrado Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which is arriving on Blu-ray today following its holiday release back in November, is one of those films that is often beautiful to look at but also feels sort of empty. It’s not a bad film, but it is a somewhat disappointing one, starting off… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Jonathan (Ansel Elgort) is a young man who seemingly has it all. He’s got a good job at an architectural firm, and a nice apartment. But his life is complicated by the presence of his “brother” John, who happens to share the same body as him through a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Jonathan
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Flynn McGarry, the young subject of the documentary Chef Flynn, taught himself to cook at a very young age through cookbooks and YouTube videos. When he was 11 years old, he turned his family’s living room into a makeshift restaurant, with the help of his mother and his… Read More Review: Chef Flynn
By John Corrado The latest title to get the special edition treatment from Shout Select is Frank Oz’s classic 1988 con man comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring the dream team of Michael Caine and Steve Martin. The film follows Lawrence Jamieson (Caine), a suave English con man who is en route to the fictional town… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is now available on Blu-ray, fresh off receiving Oscar nominations for Visual Effects, Production Design, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing just this morning While I do have some issues with the film’s approach to telling this story, First Man is still an impressive technical achievement,… Read More Blu-ray Review: First Man
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