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

By John Corrado Three years after delivering his iconic, Oscar-nominated performance as a young, working class Italian-American guy drifting through New York’s nightlife in Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta traded the white suit for a Stetson hat in Urban Cowboy, and went from disco dancing to doing the Texas two-step. Based on Aaron Latham’s 1978… Read More Blu-ray Review: Urban Cowboy: 40th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Written and directed by Australian horror filmmaker Leigh Whannell, The Invisible Man is a modern reimagining of the classic H.G. Wells novel and 1933 film of the same name, this time told from the perspective of a domestic abuse victim who makes her escape but continues to be… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Invisible Man

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) is an alcoholic. He works in construction during the day and spends his nights at the local bar, getting drunk to the point of needing to be helped home. In the morning, he sips a beer while in the shower, and starts the whole… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Way Back

By John Corrado This week, Paramount is giving the 4K Ultra HD treatment to a trio of their catalogue titles; Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and War of the Worlds (2005). What all three of these films have in common, aside from them being extremely well suited to being watching in high definition, is that they all star Tom… Read More 4K Ultra HD Reviews: Top Gun, Days of Thunder and War of the Worlds (2005)

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A beautifully crafted and dryly humorous adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel of the same name, Emma. is a very enjoyable period piece that finds the perfect sweet spot between feeling sparkling and fresh while also remaining true to its 1815 setting. The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Emma.

By John Corrado By virtue of being one of the few big movies this year to get a theatrical release in February before COVID-19 forced most theatres to shut down in March, Sonic the Hedgehog carries the distinction of being one of the highest grossing movies of 2020. After receiving an early digital release two… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sonic the Hedgehog

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The character of Dr. John Dolittle, a veterinarian with the magic ability to talk to animals who first appeared in stories by English author Hugh Lofting roughly a century ago, has in the past been played on the big screen by Rex Harrison in the Oscar-winning 1967 musical… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dolittle

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Rose Byrne was one of the stars of Bridesmaids, and Tiffany Haddish was the breakout star of Girls Trip, so it makes sense from a casting perspective to have them team up for a girl power comedy of their own. The result is Like a Boss, a comedy… Read More Blu-ray Review: Like a Boss