By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Vince Vaughn acting like a teenage girl is the main attraction in Freaky, the very entertaining new horror comedy from Blumhouse and Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon that is arriving on Blu-ray this week. Vaughn stars in the film as a serial killer nicknamed The Butcher, who’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: Freaky
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is the third feature length adventure for the cartoon sea sponge, and also the first fully computer generated one. The result is something that, while far from being the best SpongeBob movie (which is still the 2004 original), still serves as… Read More Blu-ray Review: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Breach, a new sci-fi horror movie that is being sold pretty much solely on the presence of Bruce Willis in its supporting cast, is one of those films that feels like its plot has been copied and pasted from much better sources. The film is set in the… Read More DVD Review: Breach
By John Corrado Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are an old married couple who fight to save their grandson when their daughter-in-law (Kayli Carter) marries into a violent hillbilly family. This is the basic premise behind filmmaker Thomas Bezucha’s neo-Western thriller Let Him Go, which is arriving on Blu-ray this week. This is a prime… Read More Blu-ray Review: Let Him Go
By John Corrado One of the movies that I really enjoyed last year that seemed to sort of slip through the cracks was the horror film Come Play, which is now available on Blu-ray. The film did receive a limited theatrical release in Canada for Halloween when cinemas were briefly reopen, but the pandemic unfortunately… Read More Blu-ray Review: Come Play
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Eugene Evans (Finn Cole) is a teenager in 1935, who lives on a Texas farm in a dustbowl town that has been hit hard by the Great Depression and never recovered. He finds his escape through stories of outlaws on the run from the law, fuelling his dream… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dreamland
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) In Wander, the latest film from Canadian director April Mullen, a paranoid private investigator named Arthur Bretnik (Aaron Eckhart) is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a young woman in an American small town called Wander. Arthur is a former cop who worked in the homicide division,… Read More DVD Review: Wander
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Kaminski brothers, Stanley (Charlie Hunnam) and Lion (Jack O’Connell), are working class guys struggling to make ends meet in the gritty drama Jungleland. Stanley acts as a promoter for his brother’s career as a bare-knuckle boxer, booking him scrappy local fights in order to earn some cash.… Read More DVD Review: Jungleland
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Mixing elements of a kidnapping thriller with dark Hoodoo magic, Spell is a B-grade horror movie that had the potential to bring something unique to the genre with its almost entirely African-American cast and folklore, but ends up feeling derivative of better films. Marquis T. Woods (Omari Hardwick)… Read More Blu-ray Review: Spell
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Over the past few years, Jordan Peele has gone from comedy star to one of our finest horror filmmakers, an unexpected but genuinely exciting career reinvention. In 2019, Peele leveraged his power to get a reboot of Rod Serling’s classic show The Twilight Zone on the air, updating… Read More DVD Review: The Twilight Zone (2019): Season Two
By John Corrado SpongeBob SquarePants has been on the air for over two decades now, and the complete twelfth season of the Nickelodeon cartoon is being released on DVD this week. The set comes with all 25 episodes from the season spread across three discs, and the Bikini Bottom adventures included herein serve as familiar… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Twelfth Season
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) If things were different in the world right now, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, which is being released on Blu-ray this week, would have been one of the biggest blockbusters of the summer movie season. Instead, a global pandemic got in the way, and the British filmmaker’s latest high concept… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tenet
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III has always had somewhat of a reputation as the black sheep of the trilogy. Released on Christmas Day in 1990, nearly two decades after the first film in 1972 and sixteen years after the second one in 1974, the film has… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
By John Corrado Collateral, director Michael Mann’s slickly made and very entertaining 2004 thriller starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, is receiving a 4K upgrade this week, with a new 4K Ultra HD edition from Paramount. The film follows Max (Foxx), a Los Angeles cab driver whose night takes a dark turn when Vincent (a… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Collateral
By John Corrado Robert Altman’s live action musical version of Popeye, which features Robin Williams in the title role and a selection of songs by Harry Nillson, is a film that has gone through a number of critical reevaluations over the years since it was first released in 1980. But I’m not sure if a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Popeye: 40th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Nestled in between his roles in the classic comedies Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America, Eddie Murphy starred in The Golden Child, a 1986 film that isn’t as fondly remembered as his others from the era. The film is being released for the first time on Blu-ray today as part of… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Golden Child
By John Corrado Eddie Murphy starred in a number of classic comedies in the 1980s, and one of the best remains Trading Places, a clever social satire that still holds up quite well. The film is being re-released on Blu-ray today, as part of the Paramount Presents collection. When the rich Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy… Read More Blu-ray Review: Trading Places
By John Corrado The 1984 Eddie Murphy vehicle Beverly Hills Cop remains a bona fide classic of the action comedy genre, and Paramount is releasing the film for the first time in 4K Ultra HD today. Murphy, in the role that cemented him as a major movie star, plays street-wise Detroit cop Axel Foley, who… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Beverly Hills Cop
By John Corrado With a sequel forthcoming, Paramount is releasing the 1988 Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall comedy Coming to America for the first time on 4K Ultra HD today. There are two editions of the film available, including a regular edition and a collectible Steelbook, which is the cooler of the two. Directed by… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Coming to America (Steelbook)
By John Corrado Earlier this year, Paramount released the 1986 classic Top Gun on 4K Ultra HD, and now the studio is reissuing the 4K edition with collectible Steelbook packaging. Directed by the late Tony Scott, the film of course stars Tom Cruise as cocky fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, and it remains an iconic… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Top Gun (Steelbook)
