By John Corrado Shirley Jackson’s classic 1959 horror novel The Haunting of Hill House has been adapted for the screen a few times over the years, starting with Robert Wise’s faithful 1963 film adaptation The Haunting. More recently, Jackson’s novel provided the inspiration for Mike Flanagan’s 2018 Netflix series of the same name, which was… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Haunting (1999)

By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released a new five film collection of Stephen King adaptations on Blu-ray, right in time for the annual October horror movie marathons leading up to Halloween. Below is a brief rundown of the films included in the five disc set, which span from 1983 to 2019 and are compactly… Read More Blu-ray Review: Stephen King 5-Movie Collection

By John Corrado John Hughes wrote but didn’t direct Pretty in Pink, the 1986 high school romantic comedy starring his frequent muse Molly Ringwald, which is a fact that often seems overlooked. The directing duties on the film, which Paramount is releasing for the first time on Blu-ray, instead went to Howard Deutch, a former… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pretty in Pink

By John Corrado Audrey Hepburn received five Oscar nominations throughout her acting career, but the only film that she ever won for was Roman Holiday, which also happened to be her first starring role in a motion picture. It also happens to be one of my absolute favourite performances of hers, helping turn her into… Read More Blu-ray Review: Roman Holiday

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The largest embezzlement of public funds in American public school history provides the basis for the film Bad Education, a largely satirical work that offers a satisfying mix of dark comedy and crime drama. The film, which premiered at TIFF last year and was acquired by HBO where… Read More DVD Review: Bad Education

By John Corrado One of my favourite movies of the year so far, Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island is being released on Blu-ray this week, after bypassing theatres and going straight to premium video on demand earlier this summer. The film stars Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson in the semi-autobiographical role… Read More Blu-ray Review: The King of Staten Island

By John Corrado One of the movies to bypass theatres and go straight to video on demand this summer was The High Note, director Nisha Ginatra’s mildly enjoyable musical dramedy about a pop diva (Tracee Ellis Ross) and her assistant (Dakota Johnson), who has ambitions of becoming a producer and starts secretly working with a… Read More Blu-ray Review: The High Note

By John Corrado I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few days about how, despite the fact that Amy Heckerling directed two of the most iconic teen films of all time, she herself sadly isn’t really a household name in the same way that some other auteurs of adolescent cinema have become. The first… Read More Blu-ray Review: Clueless: 25th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado The 1995 Best Picture winner Braveheart, a somewhat fictionalized historical epic which was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and with it comes a brand new 4K Ultra HD Steelbook edition of the film. Directed by Mel Gibson, who won the Oscar for… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Braveheart: 25th Anniversary Edition Steelbook

By John Corrado Director Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, the filmmaker’s 2000 epic set in the Roman Empire which won the Oscar for Best Picture, is an example of the types of films that used to triumph at the Academy Awards before they started regularly awarding smaller fare. It’s a big, outsized piece of filmmaking that delivers… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Gladiator: 20th Anniversary Edition Steelbook

By John Corrado The 1980 slasher movie Friday the 13th, which spawned a long-running franchise and has become a staple of the horror genre, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. In honour of the occasion, Paramount is reissuing the uncut version of the film on Blu-ray in a nice new Steelbook edition. Directed by… Read More Blu-ray Review: Friday the 13th: 40th Anniversary Edition Steelbook

By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) There are some movies that just can’t seem to catch a break, and The Hunt, director Craig Zobel’s mix of political satire and ultra-violent action thriller which imagines a scenario where “elites” are hunting “deplorables” for sport, seems to be one of them. The film was meant to open… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Hunt

By John Corrado Last month, director Cathy Yan’s action comedy Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) was released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray. The latest entry into the DC Extended Universe, the film mainly serves as a fun showcase for Margot Robbie’s gleefully unhinged portrayal of Harley Quinn. Robbie… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Birds of Prey