By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released the Star Trek: 10-Movie Stardate Collection on Blu-ray. The set comes with all six films starring the cast of the original series, as well as the four featuring the characters from The Next Generation. The films included here are Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: 10-Movie Stardate Collection
By John Corrado Along with The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection, The Paul Newman 6-Movie Collection was also released on DVD last week from Paramount. The six films included in the set are Hud (1963), A New Kind of Love (1963), Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Nobody’s Fool (1994), Twilight (1998) and Road to Perdition (2002). While a lot of Newman’s most iconic… Read More DVD Review: The Paul Newman 6-Movie Collection
By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection on DVD, featuring a selection of her classic films conveniently packaged together in a single case. Listed in chronological order, the set includes the films Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), War and Peace (1956), Funny Face (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Paris When It Sizzles (1964), and My Fair… Read More DVD Review: The Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A followup to the surprisingly good 2015 film Goosebumps, Goosebumps 2 finds a new group of young protagonists accidentally unleashing monsters from author R.L. Stine’s classic series of books. This film is also set at Halloween, and follows Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris), two kids… Read More Blu-ray Review: Goosebumps 2
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing the Netflix film The Cloverfield Paradox on Blu-ray, both on its own and as part of a new 3-movie collection that also includes the 2008 found footage film Cloverfield and the 2016 followup 10 Cloverfield Lane. Famously released on Netflix as a surprise directly following last year’s Super… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Cloverfield Paradox and The Cloverfield 3-Movie Collection
By John Corrado It’s hard to believe that SpongeBob SquarePants – the adventures of a bright yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea – has been on the air for twenty years now, but it’s true. Created by Stephen Hillenburg, who sadly passed away late last year, the show premiered on Nickelodeon… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The First & Second Seasons and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Third & Fourth Seasons 2-Season Gift Sets
By John Corrado The directorial debut of actor Jonah Hill, Mid90s is coming to Blu-ray this week, and it’s one of those small gems that absolutely deserves to find more of an audience at home. Centred around a group of skater kids in the 1990s, this is a funny and touching coming of age film… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mid90s
By John Corrado After becoming a smash hit at the box office throughout the holiday season, Illumination’s surprisingly great animated Dr. Seuss adaptation The Grinch is being released on Blu-ray this week. I really enjoyed this one when I first saw it at a screening back in November, and it’s actually grown on me quite a… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Grinch
By John Corrado Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which is arriving on Blu-ray today following its holiday release back in November, is one of those films that is often beautiful to look at but also feels sort of empty. It’s not a bad film, but it is a somewhat disappointing one, starting off… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Jonathan (Ansel Elgort) is a young man who seemingly has it all. He’s got a good job at an architectural firm, and a nice apartment. But his life is complicated by the presence of his “brother” John, who happens to share the same body as him through a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Jonathan
By John Corrado The latest title to get the special edition treatment from Shout Select is Frank Oz’s classic 1988 con man comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring the dream team of Michael Caine and Steve Martin. The film follows Lawrence Jamieson (Caine), a suave English con man who is en route to the fictional town… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is now available on Blu-ray, fresh off receiving Oscar nominations for Visual Effects, Production Design, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing just this morning While I do have some issues with the film’s approach to telling this story, First Man is still an impressive technical achievement,… Read More Blu-ray Review: First Man
By John Corrado Featuring excellent performances from Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet – who really should have gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Felix Van Groeningen’s powerful addiction drama Beautiful Boy is now available on Blu-ray. While Beautiful Boy has garnered some mixed reviews, this is one of those movies that I… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beautiful Boy
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The character of Venom was initially meant to be an adversary to Spider-Man. Now the popular Marvel Comics villain – who was played by Topher Grace in Sam Raimi’s 2007 blockbuster Spider-Man 3 – takes centre stage in the aptly titled Venom, and I’m honestly not exactly sure what to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Venom
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Elliot (Josh Hutcherson) is a miniature horse who has always dreamed of flying with the reindeer, and when Blitzen (Martin Short) announces his retirement right before Christmas, leaving Santa (George Buza) scrambling to find a replacement to fill his spot on the sleigh team, he sees an opportunity… Read More DVD Review: Elliot the Littlest Reindeer
By John Corrado David Gordon Green’s Halloween, which saw the return of Michael Myers forty years after John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 film, was one of the most anticipated movies of last fall, and it’s now arriving on Blu-ray. Serving as a direct followup to the original, this film finds Michael coming back to Haddonfield, Illinois… Read More Blu-ray Review: Halloween
By John Corrado Watching When Harry Met Sally… again, which I had the pleasure of doing the other night thanks to the new 30th anniversary edition that Shout Select just put out on Blu-ray, it’s easy to see why the film is still regarded as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time. Directed by… Read More Blu-ray Review: When Harry Met Sally…: 30th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Carl Reiner’s classic 1979 comedy The Jerk is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, an occasion that was marked by this new Blu-ray edition that was put out by Shout Select last month. The film stars Steve Martin in his breakout movie role as Navin R. Johnson, a charming simpleton who was… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Jerk: 40th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Ronald Reagan is never actually mentioned by name in White Boy Rick, but his figures often looms large behind the story, which details the human impact that the 40th President’s so-called “War on Drugs” had upon poor and minority communities. The film is based on the true story… Read More Blu-ray Review: White Boy Rick
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Adapted from Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, Juliet, Naked is a very likeable film that proves there are still many pleasures to be found within the classic romantic comedy formula when it’s done right. The film focuses on Annie (Rose Byrne), who is living a quiet… Read More DVD Review: Juliet, Naked
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