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

By John Corrado Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is a magnificent love letter to Los Angeles in 1969, following faded TV actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), and actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), reimagining real life events to reclaim the mythos of that crucial… Read More Blu-ray Review: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) One of the most surprising things to happen this year at TIFF was the amount of praise that Hustlers received following its gala premiere. I saw the film about a week before the festival and thought it was a mildly entertaining but thoroughly unremarkable piece of disposable entertainment. I… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hustlers

By John Corrado Directed by Casey Affleck from his own screenplay, Light of My Life is a quietly effective survival drama set in a post-apocalyptic future world where a mysterious illness wiped out the female half of the population, leaving a father (Affleck) struggling to keep his preteen daughter (Anna Pniowsky) hidden from other men.… Read More DVD Review: Light of My Life

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Chloe (Lexy Kolker) is a seven year old girl who isn’t allowed to leave the house, kept locked inside by her father (Emile Hirsch), who teaches her survival skills and instills in her that the outside world is a dangerous place. This is the basic setup for Freaks,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Freaks

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The choice to adapt Stephen King’s massive 1986 book It, which was already made into a miniseries in 1990, into two movies was always going to be a gargantuan undertaking, and after the first film was released in 2017 to strong reviews and huge success at the box office,… Read More Blu-ray Review: It: Chapter Two

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) One of the first films to crash and burn this awards season was The Goldfinch, director John Crowley’s adaptation of Donna Tartt’s massive, Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel of the same name. When the film premiered at TIFF a few days prior to its theatrical release this September, it… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Goldfinch

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The third film in the Has Fallen series, following 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen and its 2016 sequel London Has Fallen, Angel Has Fallen finds Secret Service officer Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) being framed for an assassination attempt against President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), and racing against time to prove… Read More Blu-ray Review: Angel Has Fallen

By John Corrado Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, which is now available on Blu-ray, still ranks as one of the finer movies of the year. Based on Wang’s own life, the film follows Billi (Awkwafina), a Chinese-American woman who returns home for a family wedding that serves as a way to secretly say goodbye to her… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Farewell

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) I don’t think anyone was asking for a winking, self-aware teenaged Dora the Explorer movie in the year 2019. I know I certainly wasn’t. But now we have one, and I’m pleased to report that it’s actually, somewhat surprisingly, not bad. It’s a thoroughly harmless live action adventure movie… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold

By John Corrado It’s already one of my favourite movies of the year, and now Warner Bros. is releasing the Sundance hit Blinded by the Light on Blu-ray this week. The film follows Javed (Viveik Kalra), a British-Pakistani teenager in the 1980s who finds himself through the music of Bruce Springsteen, with the American rocker’s lyrics about… Read More Blu-ray Review: Blinded by the Light

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A pint-sized Superbad that sets the action in middle school instead of high school, Good Boys is an enjoyable comedy from producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that features potty-mouthed pre-teens as its stars. The film follows Max (Jacob Tremblay), Thor (Brady Noon) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams),… Read More Blu-ray Review: Good Boys

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A spinoff to the blockbuster franchise, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw brings together best frenemies Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) for a mission, when both men are recruited to track down a rogue MI6 agent named Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), who is in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw