By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Loosely based on the video game that first launched in the 1980s, Rampage follows Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson), a primatologist at a wildlife sanctuary in San Diego who has formed a bond with a rare albino silverback gorilla named George, who he has taught to communicate through sign language.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Rampage

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Set in a dystopic near-future world that has been ravaged by alien creatures that rely solely on hearing, forcing any of the remaining humans to live in silence lest they make a noise and summon an attack, A Quiet Place is an entertaining if overly gimmicky monster movie that… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Quiet Place

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest in a long line of faith-based movies from Affirm Films, Paul, Apostle of Christ depicts the last days of Paul the Apostle (James Faulkner).  The film begins with him imprisoned in Rome in 67 AD, and sentenced to death by Emperor Nero, who accused Christians of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Paul, Apostle of Christ

By John Corrado Paramount is continuing their recent trend of rereleasing their old catalogue titles on 4K Ultra HD this week, and the latest film to get an upgrade is writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s 2012 crime thriller Jack Reacher. Based on Lee Child’s 2005 novel One Shot, the film opens with a chilling, wordless sequence in… Read More 4K UHD Review: Jack Reacher

By John Corrado Released in 1994, Forrest Gump is one of those classic movies that has garnered a lot of adoration since it first came out, but has also attracted a very sizeable backlash over the years.  I have personally always had a soft spot for the film, and now Paramount has given it a… Read More 4K UHD Review: Forrest Gump

By John Corrado Last month, Steven Spielberg’s classic 1998 World War II epic Saving Private Ryan got a brand new 4K Ultra HD release from Paramount, in honour of the film’s 20th anniversary. The film saw Steven Spielberg returning to the war five years after his Oscar-winning masterpiece Schindler’s List, this time putting us right… Read More 4K UHD Review: Saving Private Ryan: Commemorative 20th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released the Elvis Presley: 5 Film Collection on DVD, a new set that includes his films G.I. Blues (1960), Blue Hawaii (1961), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Fun in Acapulco (1963), and Roustabout (1964). I’m a pretty big Elvis fan, and consider his films to be somewhat of a guilty pleasure having seen… Read More DVD Review: Elvis Presley: 5 Film Collection

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Seven years after losing her father (Dominic West), Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) discovers the many puzzles that he left behind in his work as an archaeologist, and sets out to solve the mystery behind his disappearance. Teaming up with Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), who is captaining his own… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tomb Raider

By John Corrado A pair of classic comedies from the 1980s that share the same director in John Landis and the same star in Eddie Murphy, Trading Places and Coming to America are both celebrating anniversaries this year, and are getting brand new Blu-ray releases to honour the occasion. Trading Places: Released to wild success in… Read More Blu-ray Reviews: Trading Places: 35th Anniversary Edition and Coming to America: 30th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado This year marks the 55th anniversary of the classic 1963 comedy The Nutty Professor, and in honour of this occasion, Paramount is releasing it as part of the Jerry Lewis: 10 Film Collection, a DVD set that comes highly recommended for fans of his work. The set features a solid selection of… Read More DVD Review: Jerry Lewis: 10 Film Collection

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) is a Nigerian immigrant working for a pharmaceutical company in Chicago.  But when things go wrong on a routine trip to Mexico to visit their supplier, he ends up in way over his head.  This is the basic set-up for Gringo, which plays like… Read More Blu-ray Review: Gringo

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura’s popular graphic novel of the same name, I Kill Giants is the story of Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe), a teenaged outsider who escapes from relentless bullying at school and problems at home by immersing herself in an elaborate fantasy world. Barbara… Read More Blu-ray Review: I Kill Giants

By John Corrado Based on Madeline L’Engle’s classic 1962 novel of the same name, which has been brought to the screen by director Ava DuVernay, Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry (Storm Reid), an adolescent girl who has to travel across the universe in order to rescue her physicist father (Chris Pine). Although it didn’t… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Wrinkle in Time

By John Corrado One of the more interesting films to come out so far this year, Alex Garland’s Annihilation is being released on Blu-ray today.  The film follows Lena (Natalie Portman), an ex-soldier turned biology professor who, after her husband (Oscar Isaac) returns permanently changed, goes to explore a strange phenomenon called The Shimmer, a quarantined area… Read More Blu-ray Review: Annihilation

By John Corrado After winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film a few months back, Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman is now available on Blu-ray.  The Chilean drama follows Marina (Daniela Vega), a transwoman who struggles to grieve when her older lover Orlando (Francisco Reyes) drops dead and his family doesn’t want her to attend… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Fantastic Woman

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4)​ The latest from director Clint Eastwood, The 15:17 to Paris recounts the true story of how Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler fearlessly stopped Ayoub El Khazzani (Ray Corasani), who was armed with guns, knives and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, from carrying out a terrorist attack onboard a train… Read More Blu-ray Review: The 15:17 to Paris

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4)​ Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) are a naturally competitive married couple who host a weekly game night at their house with a group of friends. Then Max’s hotshot brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) comes over and decides to kick things up a notch by taking game night… Read More Blu-ray Review: Game Night

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Beatrix Potter’s beloved woodland creatures get their first big screen outing in Peter Rabbit, a modern take on the story of the mischievous bunny in a blue coat, who’s trying to outwit a farmer to steal the vegetables from his field. This version of the story begins with… Read More Blu-ray Review: Peter Rabbit