By John Corrado When Star Wars: The Last Jedi opened last December, it became one of the rare movies that was acclaimed by the majority of critics, while leaving a good portion of fans disappointed.  Now the debate can rage on, as the film is being released on Blu-ray. As someone who considers himself both… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Following the 2012 surprise hit Pitch Perfect, and the inevitable but still enjoyable 2014 followup Pitch Perfect 2, Pitch Perfect 3 should have ended this series with a bang, but instead it just sort of fizzles out. At the start of this third instalment, the original Barden Bellas… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pitch Perfect 3

By John Corrado The latest from Alexander Payne, Downsizing follows a working class man from Omaha named Paul Safraneck (Matt Damon), who decides to undergo a new procedure to shrink himself down to the size of an action figure, so that he can reduce his carbon footprint and live a grand life at a fraction of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Downsizing

By John Corrado Landing a spot on my list of the best movies of 2017, I, Tonya is a gripping and surprisingly sympathetic biopic of disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, and the film is now available on Blu-ray. Margot Robbie netted a much deserved Best Actress Oscar nomination for her knockout performance as Harding, and… Read More Blu-ray Review: I, Tonya

By John Corrado Fresh off of winning Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars, Luca Gaudagnino’s Italy-set romance Call Me By Your Name is now available on Blu-ray.  The film charts the relationship between the 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and 24-year-old grad student Oliver (Armie Hammer), whom his father (Michael Stuhlbarg) brings over to help with… Read More Blu-ray Review: Call Me By Your Name

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Picking up after Superman’s (Henry Cavill) self-sacrificial death in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League finds Batman (Ben Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) teaming up again when an alien threat attacks Gotham City, and recruiting a trio of new heroes to help them take down… Read More Blu-ray Review: Justice League

By John Corrado With Black Panther currently dominating the box office, Marvel has been top of mind these past several weeks, but a few months back the studio had another hit on their hands with Thor: Ragnarok, which is now coming to Blu-ray. While the film doesn’t have a ton of plot, it’s simply a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Thor: Ragnarok

By John Corrado Telling the story of Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), a 12-year-old boy in Mexico who journeys to the Land of the Dead on Dia de Muertos to try and break his family’s generations old ban on music, Pixar’s Coco is a wonderful film that is both beautifully animated and extremely moving. This was one of my… Read More Blu-ray Review: Coco

By John Corrado I have always had a big soft spot for Lady and the Tramp, Disney’s 1955 tale of the romance that blossoms between the pampered pet dog Lady (Barbara Luddy) and the “footloose and collar free” street mutt Tramp (Larry Roberts).  Now the film is being reissued as part of their Signature Collection. Having… Read More Blu-ray Review: Lady and the Tramp: The Signature Collection

By John Corrado I have already sung the praises of The Florida Project on multiple occasions, even declaring it my favourite movie of last year.  So there isn’t much more I can say about the film at this point that I haven’t already said, other than the fact that it’s worth seeking out now that… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Florida Project

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Based on a true story, that in turn became a bestselling autobiographical book, Same Kind of Different As Me tells the story of art dealer Ron Hall (Greg Kinnear) and his wife Debbie (Renée Zellweger), who live in a big home with their two teenaged kids in Texas. When… Read More Blu-ray Review: Same Kind of Different As Me

By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) I don’t think anybody was asking for a sequel to the 2015 holiday comedy Daddy’s Home, but it was mildly successful at the box office, so I guess a followup was inevitable. At the beginning of Daddy’s Home 2, step-dad Brad (Will Ferrell) and biological father Dusty (Mark… Read More Blu-ray Review: Daddy’s Home 2

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) At the start of Roman J. Isreal, Esq., the title character (Denzel Washington) is drafting a criminal case against himself that would have him disbarred from practising law, which he plans on defending and prosecuting himself.  The film then jumps back in time to show us the series… Read More Blu-ray Review: Roman J. Israel, Esq.

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Taking place thirteen years before he would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in 1954, Marshall focuses on a court case from earlier on in the career of famed civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman). The year is 1940, and Marshall is working for the NAACP… Read More Blu-ray Review: Marshall

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Only the Brave is based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hot Shots, a group of local firefighters in Prescott, Arizona led by team captain Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin).  Tired of being outranked by the California Hot Shots, Marsh works closely with Fire… Read More Blu-ray Review: Only the Brave

By John Corrado Directed by George Clooney, working from a decades old script by Joel and Ethan Coen, Suburbicon takes place in a seemingly idyllic 1950s community made up of white families and cookie cutter houses, that is rocked not only by a brutal invasion at the home of Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon), but also… Read More Blu-ray Review: Suburbicon

By John Corrado Earlier in the month, Julie Taymor’s 2007 jukebox musical Across the Universe got the 4K UHD treatment.  The film reimagines the events of the 1960s, including the Detroit riots, the Vietnam War, and the experimentations with hallucinogenic drugs that defined the decade, all set to the iconic music of the Beatles. The… Read More 4K UHD Review: Across the Universe

By John Corrado Based on a true story, Breathe dramatizes the life of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), a disability rights advocate who was struck with polio in the 1950s and left paralyzed from the neck down.  Although initially confined to a hospital bed, Robin was able to survive at home thanks to the dedication of his wife… Read More DVD Review: Breathe

By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) When climate change starts running amok, causing devastating natural disasters around the globe, the world’s governments hire the cocky scientist Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) to set up the Dutch Boy Program, a high tech network of satellites that are connected to a space station and control the Earth’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: Geostorm