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

By John Corrado Nearly a century ago, Universal Pictures revolutionized the monster movie genre, and set the high bar for how iconic characters like Count Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster and The Wolf Man would be portrayed onscreen. Now the studio has released four of their classic monster movies on 4K Ultra HD in the Universal Classic… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror Collection

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Director Adam Robitel’s 2019 film Escape Room wasn’t exactly great cinema, but it was still somewhat of a pleasant surprise. It was a guilty pleasure sort of movie that offered a decent amount of self-contained thrills in a short amount of time, playing out like a PG-13 riff… Read More Blu-ray Review: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

By John Corrado This is a review of the Blu-ray release. For my full thoughts on the film itself, including my star rating, please read my original review right here. Director Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater was one of the better movies I saw in theatres this summer, and the film is being released on Blu-ray and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Stillwater

By John Corrado On October 5th, Paramount released the Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection for the first time on Blu-ray. It’s timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, director Blake Edwards’ 1961 adaptation of the Truman Capote novella, which features Hepburn in the iconic role of Holly Golightly. In addition to Breakfast… Read More Blu-ray Review: Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A reboot/spinoff of the two live action films G.I. Joe and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, both somewhat stalled attempts at starting a franchise based on the Hasbro toys, comic books and cartoon series, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is technically the best of the G.I. Joe movies, but that really… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (Steelbook Edition)

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) M. Night Shyamalan is a filmmaker whose rises and falls over the years have been well documented. And, while he hasn’t quite regained the early highs of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, he has rebounded quite nicely in the past few years following a string of disappointments.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Old

By John Corrado In 1982, Eddie Murphy made his big screen debut in director Walter Hill’s buddy cop movie 48 Hrs., playing smooth-talking convict Reggie Hammond to Nick Nolte’s gruff cop Jack Cates. It was well received by critics and became a box office hit, prompting Hill to reunite with Murphy and Nolte eight years… Read More Blu-ray Review: Another 48 Hrs. (1990)

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Arriving a full two-and-a-half decades after the original Space Jam, which fused live action and animation to bring together the worlds of professional basketball and Looney Tunes, Space Jam: A New Legacy is a sequel built squarely around nostalgia. And not just nostalgia for the 1996 film, but… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Space Jam: A New Legacy

By John Corrado The legacy of Mommie Dearest, and Faye Dunaway’s performance at the centre of it, encompasses the film’s rise from critical flop to commercial success and inadvertent camp classic. And it continues to exist as all three things at once. A modern reevaluation of Mommie Dearest, which is now celebrating its 40th anniversary… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mommie Dearest (1981)

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The tagline for The Forever Purge, the somewhat mediocre fifth film in the horror franchise that started in 2013, might as well be “the purge in daylight.” The film’s main selling point (and the point that is brought up in the bonus features) is the opportunity to see… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Forever Purge

By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing the 2001 sports drama Hardball for the first time ever on Blu-ray, in honour of the film’s 20th anniversary this month. Directed by Brian Robbins, who was hired off the success of his football drama Varsity Blues two years earlier, the film stars Keanu Reeves in the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hardball (2001)

By John Corrado This week, Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing the 1997 thriller Breakdown for the first time on Blu-ray, newly remastered from a 4K film scan. The film follows Jeff Taylor (Kurt Russell) and his wife Amy (Kathleen Quinlan). They are in the process of moving to California, when their car breaks down on… Read More Blu-ray Review: Breakdown (1997)

By John Corrado Last month, Paramount released a new Blu-ray edition of director Alan Parker’s 1976 film Bugsy Malone, an homage to classic Prohibition-era gangster movies that casts kids in all the roles and replaces bullets with whipped cream. The film is set in New York City circa 1929, and follows Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio),… Read More Blu-ray Review: Bugsy Malone (1976)

By John Corrado This is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release. For my full thoughts on the film itself, including my star rating, please read my original 3.5 star review right here. After a long fan campaign to #ReleasetheSnyderCut, Zack Snyder’s original cut of Justice League was finally released earlier this year on… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Zack Snyder’s Justice League

By John Corrado September 8th marks the 55th anniversary of when Star Trek first premiered on television screens in 1966, with Gene Roddenberry’s classic sci-fi series launching a still-going franchise spanning TV series and movies. In honour of the occasion, Paramount is releasing Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection on 4K Ultra HD this week,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection