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

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) An English-language remake of his own acclaimed 2013 Chilean drama Gloria, Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria Bell is an almost beat for beat copy of the original film, except the setting has been changed to Los Angeles to make it more accessible for American audiences. The result is a technically… Read More Blu-ray Review: Gloria Bell

By John Corrado Released in theatres earlier this spring as a prelude to the massive blockbuster Avengers: Endgame, the prequel Captain Marvel arrives on Blu-ray this week. Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the film serves as an origin story for Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), taking her on a solo adventure in the 1990s that… Read More Blu-ray Review: Captain Marvel

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) After becoming a hit in theatres, and winning the Best Original Song Oscar for “Shallow,” A Star is Born was re-released in theatres earlier this spring following its initial Blu-ray release, to include about twelve minutes of added footage. This “encore edition” of the film is now available… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Star is Born Encore

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) I have always believed that the majority of comedic actors have a natural ability to do drama as well, and there have been many examples of comic actors seamlessly transitioning into more serious roles over the years. One of the latest cases is that of Kevin Hart, who… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Upside

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

By John Corrado Liam Neeson’s action movies, in which the actor usually plays a father getting revenge, have practically become their own cliché at this point, but sometimes one comes along that surprises you. Such is the case with Cold Pursuit, which was one of the nicest surprises of the winter movie season when it was… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Cold Pursuit

By John Corrado Starring Mads Mikkelsen in a compelling, mostly wordless performance as a man who is left stranded in the middle of the Arctic following a plane crash, and finds himself caring for an injured woman (Maria Thelma Smáradóttir), Arctic is a survival movie in the most stripped down and literal sense of the term.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Arctic