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

By John Corrado In honour of its 20th anniversary this year, Paramount has released a new steelbook edition of the 1999 science fiction comedy Galaxy Quest on Blu-ray. Dubbed the Never Give Up, Never Surrender Edition, this is a fairly irresistible release for fans of the cult classic film. Directed by Dean Parisot, (who is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Galaxy Quest: Collector’s Edition Steelbook

By John Corrado There has been a lot of talk about the racially charged drama Luce since it premiered at Sundance at the beginning of the year, and it’s now available on DVD as of today. The film follows a high school student named Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), an Eritrean immigrant who is the adoptive son… Read More DVD Review: Luce

By John Corrado It’s already made over a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and currently ranks as the second highest grossing movie of the year after Avengers: Endgame. Now Disney’s remake of The Lion King is available to own on Blu-ray as of this week. While I did enjoy this updated retelling of… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Lion King (2019)

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When a massive, Category 5 hurricane hits off the coast of Florida, Hayley (Kaya Scodelario) goes to check in on her father (Barry Pepper), and ends up trapped in the crawl space under his house with a massive alligator that has made its way down through a drainage… Read More Blu-ray Review: Crawl

By John Corrado The sophomore feature from Ari Aster, following up last year’s breakout hit Hereditary, Midsommar is an entirely unique folk horror movie set in broad daylight that offers further proof that the young director is a force to be reckoned with in terms of genre filmmaking. It’s now available on Blu-ray as of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Midsommar

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest entry into the Conjuring franchise, and the third spinoff film focusing on the doll Annabelle who serves as the through line of the series, Annabelle Comes Home is a solid and entertaining sequel that does a good job of expanding upon the mythology of this cinematic… Read More Blu-ray Review: Annabelle Comes Home

By John Corrado It was always a risk for Pixar to make a fourth Toy Story movie. The original trilogy, which concluded at the start of this decade with Toy Story 3 in 2010, is undoubtedly one of the greatest film trilogies of all time, leading to questions of where the story could possibly go… Read More Blu-ray Review: Toy Story 4

By John Corrado Today is October 3rd, which fans of the movie Mean Girls know to be the day when new student Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was asked by her popular classmate and secret crush Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) what day it was. While last year’s Mean Girls Day was extra special because it actually… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mean Girls: 15th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado Arriving just in time for Halloween, and for the release of the new animated movie on October 11th, Paramount is releasing a new two movie collection that includes both The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values on Blu-ray this week. Both films were directed by Barry Sonnenfeld – who would go on… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Addams Family and Addams Family Values 2-Movie Collection