Blu-ray Review: The Godfather Trilogy: Corleone Legacy Edition

By John Corrado Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 drama The Godfather, charting the rise to power of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) within the ranks of an Italian-American mafia family under the tutelage of patriarch Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), and its 1974 followup The Godfather Part II, which served as both sequel and prequel to the saga, are widely… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Godfather Trilogy: Corleone Legacy Edition

Blu-ray Review: Isn’t It Romantic

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The romantic comedy Isn’t It Romantic, which positions itself as a meta sendup of romantic comedy clichés before fully embracing them itself, opens with our protagonist Natalie (Rebel Wilson) as an adolescent girl (Alexandra Kis) back in Australia, happily watching the 1990 Julia Roberts classic Pretty Woman. But… Read More Blu-ray Review: Isn’t It Romantic

Blu-ray Review: Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) At the start of Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki, director Kaku Arakawa’s short and sweet documentary about the legendary Japanese animator, we see footage from 2013 of Miyazaki announcing his intentions to retire from filmmaking at a press conference, stating that The Wind Rises will be his final film.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki