By John Corrado John Krasinski’s monster movie A Quiet Place, a surprise hit at the box office when it came out in 2018, is being reissued on 4K Ultra HD this week in a brand new Mondo X SteelBook edition. It’s timed perfectly to coincide with the theatrical release of A Quiet Place Part II on… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: A Quiet Place: Mondo X SteelBook

By John Corrado There are some casting choices that just make sense, and such is the case with Tom Hanks being cast as children’s television show host Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. It’s only fitting to have one beloved American icon portraying another, and Hanks received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

By John Corrado Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, which recently won him the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, is certainly one of the more unique films to be released last year. The film, which is now available on Blu-ray as of last week, is a World War II satire about a member of the Hitler Youth,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Jojo Rabbit

By John Corrado Director James Mangold’s racing drama Ford v Ferrari, which arrived on Blu-ray earlier this month, was awarded a pair of Oscars for Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing, and it was nominated for two more (Best Sound Mixing and Best Picture). This really isn’t surprising, as the film is a superior… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ford v Ferrari

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Andre Davis (Chadwick Boseman) is an NYPD detective who has a complicated history with the force. His father was killed in the line of duty when he was a boy, and his high kill count has gained him the nickname “trigger” and earned him the reputation of being a fearless… Read More Blu-ray Review: 21 Bridges

By John Corrado Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island was released in theatres a decade ago this month, and now the director’s 2010 film has received a new, limited edition 4K Ultra HD release from Paramount, which comes in a nice steelbook package. Based on Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel of the same name, which was adapted for… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Shutter Island: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition Steelbook

By John Corrado Serving as both an adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 literary sequel to his classic novel The Shining and a direct followup to Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 1980 film version of that book, Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep is being released on Blu-ray this week. Along with the version of the film that was released in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Doctor Sleep: Includes Director’s Cut

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) At the start of The Good Liar, Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) and Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) meet in person for the first time in London, England after chatting online. We learn that her husband just passed away a year earlier, and they are both lonely senior citizens seeking… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Good Liar

By John Corrado ★ (out of 4) There have been a lot of comedies about closed off men becoming unlikely caretakers to kids who help them open up and rediscover the importance of family. It’s a premise that, in the right hands, can offer room for both humour and heart. But Playing with Fire, director… Read More Blu-ray Review: Playing with Fire

By John Corrado Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite was one of the true breakout hits of last year. The South Korean director’s brilliant, genre-defying mix of social satire and thriller has been gaining steam since it premiered at Cannes and won the Palme d’Or. It went on to bring in a massive $163 million at the box office,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Parasite

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The sixth entry into the Terminator franchise started by James Cameron in 1984, Terminator: Dark Fate serves as a direct follow up to Cameron’s groundbreaking 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day and, for better or for worse, essentially ignores the events of the other three films that happened… Read More Blu-ray Review: Terminator: Dark Fate

By John Corrado One of the most overlooked movies of last year was Edward Norton’s excellent, 1950s-set detective movie Motherless Brooklyn, which he directs and stars in as a New York City private investigator living with Tourette syndrome. The film seemed to come and go in theatres with not enough fanfare, but it’s arriving on Blu-ray… Read More Blu-ray Review: Motherless Brooklyn

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Robert Eggers established himself as a filmmaker to watch with his 2015 debut The Witch, a period piece horror movie set in the 1600s that played with a moody aesthetic and a strong sense of atmosphere. Eggers has more than lived up to this early promise with his… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Lighthouse

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The zombie comedy is hardly a new invention, and we already have films like Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland and its recent sequel, the teen romance Warm Bodies, as well as the delightful musical Anna and the Apocalypse to prove it’s a genre mashup that can work. Now… Read More Blu-ray Review: Little Monsters

By John Corrado Eddie Murphy has been enjoying a bit of a resurgence lately, from his explosive comeback performance in Dolemite Is My Name to the upcoming Coming to America sequel set to arrive at the end of the year. Now one of Murphy’s most famous characters, the street-smart Detroit cop Axel Foley who ends… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beverly Hills Cop 3-Movie Collection

By John Corrado Ang Lee’s Gemini Man was one of the more curious big budget films to be released last year, and it’s arriving on 4K Ultra HD this week in a set that also includes a regular Blu-ray of the film. The film offers the Oscar-winning director a chance to play around with new… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Gemini Man

By John Corrado A sequel to the 2014 film, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil finds Aurora (Elle Fanning) preparing to marry Prince Philip (Harris Dickinson), leading to increasing tensions between her stepmother Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) and the human world, with Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer) waging an all-out war against the magical realm. The film is arriving… Read More Blu-ray Review: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) There were few films in 2019 that made as much pre-release noise as Joker did. Directed by Todd Phillips, in a radical change of pace from comedies like The Hangover and Old School, the R-rated film offers a dark and gritty take on the Batman villain’s origin story that… Read More Blu-ray Review: Joker