By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Halloween Kills is technically the twelfth film in the slasher movie franchise (counting the two Rob Zombie remakes), but chronologically it follows the surprisingly good 2018 legacy sequel Halloween, which was itself a direct continuation of John Carpenter’s 1978 original. Like the 2018 film, Halloween Kills is once… Read More Blu-ray Review: Halloween Kills

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 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 ★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 ★★ (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) 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

By John Corrado Arriving just in time for American Thanksgiving, Paramount is releasing a new SteelBook Edition of Planes, Trains and Automobiles on Blu-ray this week. The John Hughes classic follows family man Neal Page (Steve Martin) as he tries to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving, only to end up stuck on the road… Read More Blu-ray Review: Planes, Trains and Automobiles: SteelBook Edition

By John Corrado Barry Sonnenfeld, who got his start in the industry as a cinematographer, made his directorial debut in 1991 with The Addams Family, a big screen adaptation of the classic 1960s TV show (which was itself based on a comic strip by Charles Addams). Despite a troubled production (with the film going over-budget… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Addams Family (With More Mamushka!)

By John Corrado A hundred years ago in 1921, Paramount released The Sheik in theatres. It’s a pretty special thing to be celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of a motion picture like this, and in honour of the occasion, Paramount has released a newly restored version of the film on Blu-ray. Directed by George Melford,… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Sheik (1921)

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Jennifer Hudson takes on the role of Aretha Franklin in Respect, a biopic of the late soul singer that is completely standard in its construction but comes alive thanks to Hudson’s performance. Directed by Liesl Tommy, a TV director making her feature debut, the film begins with Aretha as… Read More Blu-ray Review: Respect

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is a soft reboot of David Ayer’s 2016 film Suicide Squad (sans the “The”), a film that had potential but was massacred by studio interference and reshoots to add more humour. This was ironically done by Warner Bros. in an attempt to make… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Suicide Squad