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

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 review right here. In the Heights, director Jon M. Chu’s big screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton musical, is receiving a physical media release this week… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: In the Heights

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A followup to the 2018 film Peter Rabbit, which served as a modernized adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s classic books, Peter Rabbit 2 is a bigger in scope and more self-aware sequel. It also addresses some of the problems of the first one (which I still kinda liked, by… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Peter Rabbit 2

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The third film in the Conjuring series, and the eighth in the franchise if you count all the spinoffs, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It offers another story taken from the case files of noted paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga). This… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released a new Blu-ray edition of Robert Altman’s 1975 classic Nashville on Blu-ray, which has been remastered from a 4K scan of original elements. A mix of music movie, character drama and political film, Nashville serves a mosaic portrait of two dozen different characters whose stories intersect over five… Read More Blu-ray Review: Nashville

By John Corrado Today is Friday the 13th, and Paramount has taken advantage of the date to release the new Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection on Blu-ray this week. The set features the first eight films in the classic 1980s slasher series bundled together in one case, with newly remastered versions of the original four.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A British journalist befriends an ISIS recruiter online in Profile, director Timur Bekmambetov’s surprisingly engaging thriller which takes place entirely on a computer screen. Bekmambetov is no stranger to this format, having produced the two Unfriended films and Aneesh Chaganty’s acclaimed Searching. While Profile is not quite as… Read More Blu-ray Review: Profile

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Two lads end up on the run with a gangster’s stepdaughter and a bag containing fifteen kilos of MDMA in the Irish film Pixie, a mix of dark comedy and crime caper that is mildly enjoyable but ends up feeling like a patchwork of its influences. The two… Read More DVD Review: Pixie

By John Corrado Back in May, Paramount released the John Wayne 14-Movie Collection on DVD, a mammoth set featuring films from three decades of the iconic actor’s career. The 14 films included in the set are: Hondo (1953), Island in the Sky (1953), The High and the Mighty (1954), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence… Read More DVD Review: John Wayne Essential 14-Movie Collection

By John Corrado Pixar’s latest film Luca, which was released exclusively on Disney Plus on June 18th, is now available across a variety of other Digital and physical media platforms as of this week. Set on the Italian Riviera, and loosely based on director Enrico Casarosa’s own childhood in Italy, Luca follows two young sea… Read More Pixar’s Luca is Now Available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) It’s an old maxim that sequels are usually bigger but not always better than the original, yet in the case of A Quiet Place Part II, it’s a little bit of both. The film is a follow up to writer-director-star John Krasinski’s 2018 film A Quiet Place, a… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: A Quiet Place Part II (Steelbook Edition)

By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing both the 2009 film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and its 2013 sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation for the first time on 4K Ultra HD, in a pair of separately released combo packs that include the films on Blu-ray as well. They are arriving to coincide with… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and G.I. Joe: Retaliation

By John Corrado Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s coming of age rock dramedy Almost Famous is 21 years old this year, and Paramount is marking the occasion by revisiting the film with a new 4K Ultra HD remaster, that comes in a limited edition Steelbook package. Based on Crowe’s own experience as a teenage writer, Almost Famous… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Almost Famous (Steelbook Edition)

By John Corrado Last month, Paramount Home Entertainment released new standalone editions of the three John Hughes classics Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful on Blu-ray, with collectible, limited edition Steelbook packaging. In terms of actual content, these are the same discs that were included in the John Hughes… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful Steelbook Editions

By John Corrado Steven Spielberg’s classic adventure movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, which introduced audiences to the bullwhip-cracking, fedora-wearing archeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), was released exactly forty years ago this month on June 12th, 1981. To celebrate this milestone, Paramount has released all four films in the Indiana Jones franchise in a new… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Indiana Jones 4-Movie Collection

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is a nobody. The title card of Nobody literally introduces him as such. He is a middle-aged man who gets up at the same time every day to take the bus to work at a factory, and once a week ends up just missing… Read More Blu-ray Review: Nobody

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A movie called Godzilla vs. Kong basically only needs to deliver one thing, and that is scenes of two classic movie monsters punching and kicking each other. Thankfully, Godzilla vs. Kong, which serves as the culmination of Warner Bros. and Legendary’s so-called MonsterVerse, delivers on this promise. The… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Godzilla vs. Kong

By John Corrado On June 1st, Paramount reissued the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its 2003 sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life on 4K Ultra HD, together for the first time in a new 2-movie collection. Starring Angelina Jolie in the title role and adapted from the video game of… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2-Movie Collection

By John Corrado This is a review of the DVD release. For my full thoughts on the film itself, including my star rating, please read my original review right here. On June 1st, Focus Features’ coming of age sports drama Boogie was released on DVD and Blu-ray. The film, which serves as the feature directorial… Read More DVD Review: Boogie