By John Corrado Following a successful run in theatres earlier this summer, the Elton John biopic Rocketman is coming to Blu-ray this week. The film reinvigorates the usual biopic formula by turning the singer’s life into a full blown jukebox musical built around many of his classic songs, and it features one of the best performances… Read More Blu-ray Review: Rocketman

By John Corrado It’s already the biggest movie of the year – not to mention the highest grossing film of all time worldwide, finally surpassing the record previously set by James Cameron’s Avatar a decade ago – and now Avengers: Endgame is arriving on Blu-ray this week. Bringing about the end of the first stretch… Read More Blu-ray Review: Avengers: Endgame

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) There are some movies that end up being pleasant surprises simply because they turn out better than anyone rightly expected them to be. Last year’s surprisingly solid Transformers spin-off Bumblebee is just one example that springs to mind, and now we can add Pokémon Detective Pikachu to this list. Based on… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) New Line Cinema continues their cornering of the mainstream horror movie market with The Curse of La Llorona, which serves as a loosely connected spin-off of their hugely popular Conjuring franchise, a series that has already been expanded to include last year’s The Nun and the recently completed… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Curse of La Llorona

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) There is something appealing about the idea of seeing David Harbour, who we all know and love as the grizzled Chief Hopper on Stranger Things, take over the role of Hellboy, a half-demon hero who works with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence and has dedicated his life to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hellboy

By John Corrado This week, Warner Bros. is releasing their superhero hit Shazam! on Blu-ray, a film that injects a much needed jolt of energy into the DC Extended Universe, and remains one of the most flat-out entertaining movies of the year so far. The story of a 14-year-old foster kid named Billy Batson (Asher… Read More Blu-ray Review: Shazam!

By John Corrado ★ (out of 4) The college romance After, based on the YA novel by Anna Todd, opens with our protagonist Tessa Young (Josephine Langford) telling us in voiceover about the “moments in our lives that seem to define us” and how her life “before him” was “simple and undecided,” and how “after… Read More Blu-ray Review: After

By John Corrado Max Minghella’s flashy directorial debut Teen Spirit, which premiered at TIFF last year and enjoyed a theatrical release in the spring, is being released on DVD this week. The film follows Violet (Elle Fanning), a 17-year-old from a small town in the UK who dreams of becoming a pop star, and secretly… Read More DVD Review: Teen Spirit

By John Corrado Claire Denis’s High Life was one of the most divisive films of the festival when in premiered at TIFF last year, before becoming one of the year’s most critically acclaimed movies following its theatrical release this spring. It’s now available on DVD. The film follows Monte (Robert Pattinson), a prisoner trapped aboard… Read More DVD Review: High Life

By John Corrado A low-key financial thriller set in the high stakes world of inside trading that premiered at TIFF last year before getting a limited release in theatres this spring, Canadian director Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project is now available on DVD. The film follows two cousins (Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård), who hatch… Read More DVD Review: The Hummingbird Project

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Serving as both a new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1983 novel, and a remake of director Mary Lambert’s 1989 film version, Pet Sematary is a mildly entertaining but also flawed take on the story that doesn’t do as much with the source material as it could have. The… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Pet Sematary

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Following up Spring Breakers, an unlikely hit that remains the biggest and most accessible film of his scrappy career, eccentric indie filmmaker Harmony Korine has returned with The Beach Bum, a stoner comedy that stars Matthew McConaughey as a strung out poet named Moondog. This description tells you… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Beach Bum

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The directorial debut of Vincent D’Onofrio, The Kid finds the actor reuniting with his The Magnificent Seven co-stars Ethan Hawke and Chris Pratt for another Western, offering a partially fictionalized retelling of the encounters between real life figures Sheriff Pat Garret (Hawke) and Billy the Kid (Dane DeHaan).… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Kid

By John Corrado The first of Disney’s several live action remakes to be released in theatres this year, Tim Burton’s Dumbo serves as a complete reimagining of the studio’s 1941 animated classic about a flying baby elephant. The film is coming to Blu-ray this week. I think Burton has done a good job of paying… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dumbo

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Jordan Peele burst onto the filmmaking scene with his debut film Get Out in 2017, radically deviating from his career as a comedic actor to establish himself as one of our most exciting new horror directors. The film became a huge hit, and Peele even received a much… Read More Blu-ray Review: Us

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Following a similar trajectory to other gritty, ripped from the headlines films like Paul Greengrass’s United 93 and Captain Phillips, and more recently Clint Eastwood’s underrated The 15:17 to Paris, Hotel Mumbai is the latest movie that seeks to dramatize a violent real life attack by recreating it in the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hotel Mumbai