By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A nightmarish, heavy metal-inspired revenge fantasy that stars Nicolas Cage at his most unhinged and plays like a demented, hallucinatory fever dream, Mandy is one of the more unique films to be released this year. It’s set in 1983, and follows Red Miller (Cage), a lumberjack who lives… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mandy

By John Corrado A biopic of controversial, alcoholic cartoonist John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), who became a quadriplegic after surviving a drunk driving accident, Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is a powerful film about overcoming adversity that has stuck with me since I watched it over the summer. Much of… Read More DVD Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot

By John Corrado Bo Burnham’s directorial debut, Eighth Grade, is one of the biggest breakout hits of the year. Built around a sensitive and incredibly authentic performance from Elsie Fisher, the film presents an engaging and at times painfully believable portrait of what it’s like to be a shy and awkward kid in middle school,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Eighth Grade

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Did we really need a belated sequel to Mamma Mia! The Movie? Not really, but Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is just so enjoyable to watch that it’s hard to really care. Arriving a full decade after the first one, the film takes us back to the Greek… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Picking up shortly after the events of the 2015 film Sicario, Sicario: Day of the Soldado focuses on a new crisis at the United States-Mexico border, when the drug cartels that control the area get into the business of smuggling terrorists into the country. Looking to enforce border… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sicario: Day of the Soldado

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Loosely based on her own life and family, writer-director Shana Feste assembles a stacked cast of familiar faces in Boundaries to tell the story of a single mother Laura (Vera Farmiga) and her socially awkward son Henry (Lewis MacDougall), who end up on a road trip with her estranged… Read More DVD Review: Boundaries

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A sequel to 2015’s Ant-Man, and the most recent piece of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man and the Wasp opens with Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) still under house arrest following the events of Captain America: Civil War. As part of his bail conditions, he is not allowed… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The fourth entry into the popular horror franchise, The First Purge is a prequel that explores the origins of the annual event that sees all crime including murder being legalized for twelve hours across the United States. The film opens with a burgeoning third party known as the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The First Purge

By John Corrado Disney’s most recent entry into the Star Wars franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Story is arriving on Blu-ray this week, following its theatrical release over the summer. While I had some issues with this film, starting with the fact that I didn’t entirely believe Alden Ehrenreich in Harrison Ford’s iconic role, this… Read More Blu-ray Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A female-driven spinoff of Steven Soderbergh’s slickly entertaining Ocean’s trilogy, Ocean’s 8 focuses on Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock), the sister of George Clooney’s title character, and the results are very mixed. The story here begins as Debbie is just getting out of jail after five years, with her brother… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ocean’s 8

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When the four old friends Diane (Diane Keaton), Vivian (Jane Fonda), Sharon (Candice Bergen) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) decide to read Fifty Shades of Grey for their monthly book club, the text inspires them to reinvigorate their own love lives by finding new relationships or spicing up their… Read More Blu-ray Review: Book Club

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on true events, Adrift documents the story of Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley), who survived at sea for over forty days in 1983 after sailing into a disastrous hurricane with her partner Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin). The two of them met and fell in love in Tahiti, and were asked… Read More Blu-ray Review: Adrift

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Loosely based on a true story, Tag is an amusing comedy that follows a group of friends who have all been playing the same game of tag for the past thirty years. Every year, in the month of May, they track each other down around the country to continue… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tag

By John Corrado It’s already one of the biggest blockbusters of all time after opening to record box office numbers at the beginning of the summer, and now Avengers: Infinity War is arriving on Blu-ray this week. The culmination of ten years worth of Marvel Cinematic Universe films, this is a gigantic beast of a movie… Read More Blu-ray Review: Avengers: Infinity War

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Melissa McCarthy can be a very funny person. But that also doesn’t mean every film she’s in is going to be a comedic hit, as she has also made her share of misfires. McCarthy’s latest film, Life of the Party, which she co-wrote with her husband Ben Falcone… Read More Blu-ray Review: Life of the Party

By John Corrado One of my very favourite movies of the year so far is Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, which is arriving on Blu-ray this week. Based on Ernest Cline’s bestselling novel of the same name, the film offers a wildly entertaining and visually dazzling thrill ride that pays tribute to countless classic movies,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ready Player One

By John Corrado Sam Raimi’s hyper-stylized 1995 western The Quick and the Dead has just gotten a 4K Ultra HD upgrade. While the film received mixed reviews at the time of its release and was a box office flop, it has also gained somewhat of a cult following over the years. The film stars Sharon… Read More 4K UHD Review: The Quick and the Dead