By John Corrado Before it became a blockbuster film franchise starring Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible was an Emmy-winning TV series that ran on CBS for seven seasons from 1966 to 1973. Now Paramount is releasing the entire series for the first time ever on Blu-ray this week, in a mammoth box set that includes all… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mission: Impossible: The Original TV Series
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) First published in 1960, Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham is one of the most beloved and enduring learn to read books of all time, with its irresistible rhyming scheme made up of just fifty words making it ideal for beginners, not to mention a delight to read… Read More DVD Review: Green Eggs and Ham: The Complete First Season
By John Corrado The video game adaptation Sonic the Hedgehog feels like one of those movies that keeps popping back up. To recap, it was initially supposed to be released in theatres last November, before public outcry over the look of Sonic in the trailer led the studio to delay it by several months to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sonic the Hedgehog: Limited Collector’s Edition
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2016 South Korean zombie movie Train to Busan is an incredible exercise in genre cinema, a tight, suspenseful thrill ride that unfolds mostly on a train and almost entirely in real time. Seriously, it’s a great action film, and one that I would highly recommend. Now, director… Read More Blu-ray Review: Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
By John Corrado One of my favourite movies of all time, and a perennial favourite that gets revisited every holiday season, is It’s a Wonderful Life. Frank Capra’s 1946 classic, about a suicidal man named George Bailey (James Stewart) who gets visited by an angel (Henry Travers) on Christmas Eve, is a film that always… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: It’s a Wonderful Life (Steelbook)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Spontaneous, the new teen romance about high school kids who start spontaneously exploding, is one of those films that takes a wild and totally original premise and just, well, runs with it. Based on the novel by Aaron Starmer, the film, which is arriving on DVD this week,… Read More DVD Review: Spontaneous
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) SpongeBob SquarePants, the beloved cartoon character who made his TV debut in 1999, gets a live action reimagining in The SpongeBob Musical, a boisterous stage show that premiered on Broadway in 2017 and received a dozen Tony nominations. Now a filmed version of the show, which was broadcast… Read More DVD Review: The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage!
By John Corrado The idea of a primetime animated sitcom was very much a novelty when The Flintstones premiered in 1960. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera under their company banner Hanna-Barbera Productions, the show about the “modern Stone Age family” was the first “cartoon” to ever land a primetime slot. And it became… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Flintstones: The Complete Series
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 One of the movies that I really enjoyed watching at home this summer was We Bare Bears: The Movie, which serves as a feature-length finale to the Cartoon Network series created by Daniel Chong. After initially only being available digitally in Canada, the film is now receiving a physical release on DVD,… Read More DVD Review: We Bare Bears: The Movie
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 ★★★ (out of 4) The Canadian horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark?, which originally aired on YTV and Nickelodeon in the 1990s and also subsequently spawned a popular series of children’s books, has maintained a cult following over the years. The fact that the show gained such a dedicated fanbase makes… Read More DVD Review: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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 ★★★ (out of 4) The Indonesian superhero movie Gundala, which premiered as part of Midnight Madness at TIFF last year and is now available on Blu-ray, is an example of a film that deserves credit for its ambition and what it is able to pull off with a limited budget. Subtitled “Rise… Read More Blu-ray Review: Gundala
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) In the kung-fu comedy Enter the Fat Dragon, Donnie Yen disappears beneath padding and makeup for much of the film to take on the role of Fallon Zhu, a once fit and trim cop in Hong Kong who is put on desk duty and ends up gaining a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Enter the Fat Dragon
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 ★★ (out of 4) Scooby-Doo, the classic cartoon dog from Hanna-Barbera, gets a shiny new CG makeover in Scoob!, a disappointingly bland animated adventure that features some appealing elements but mostly feels uninspired. The film, which bypassed theatres and went straight to video on demand a few months ago and is now… Read More Blu-ray Review: Scoob!
