By John Corrado The latest from director Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer follows Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell), a cardiac surgeon who strikes up a strange friendship with an offbeat teen named Martin (Barry Keoghan), but things start to go horribly wrong when he brings the troubled teen home to meet his wife (Nicole… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A long awaited follow up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 takes place thirty years after the events of the original film. Replicants are still being treated like second class citizens, and now the blade runner jobs go to other replicants, who… Read More Blu-ray Review: Blade Runner 2049
By John Corrado Adapted from Stephen King’s classic horror novel, It follows a group of misfit friends in the 1980s who dub themselves the Loser’s Club, and have to take down a demonic entity that feeds on children and manifests as a terrifying clown named Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), who terrorizes their town of Derry, Maine… Read More Blu-ray Review: It
By John Corrado Following the wacky adventures of plastic toys Cowboy, Indian and Horse, A Town Called Panic is a stop motion animated series from Belgium that has gained somewhat of a cult following over the years. Now all twenty short films are available for the first time on Blu-ray in A Town Called Panic: The Collection, which… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Town Called Panic: The Collection
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Lloyd (Dave Franco) is a lonely teenager who is a misfit at school, but leads a double life as the powerful Green Ninja, fighting alongside a group of other ninja warriors and being trained by his wise old uncle Master Wu (Jackie Chan). But Lloyd is tired of… Read More Blu-ray Review: The LEGO Ninjago Movie
By John Corrado Telling three interconnecting stories that take place on land, on the water, and in the air, to offer an absorbing portrait of the successful attempts to evacuate 400,000 mostly British soldiers who were left trapped during the Battle of Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is a brilliantly crafted WWII epic that ranks among… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dunkirk
By John Corrado The latest from Darren Aronofsky, mother! follows a celebrated poet (Javier Bardem) and his wife (Jennifer Lawrence), who live in a decaying old house that she is fixing up to start a family, but their lives are upended when a mysterious visitor (Ed Harris) arrives at their house asking for a place… Read More Blu-ray Review: mother!
By John Corrado Before this long awaited third season of the 1990s pop culture phenomenon Twin Peaks premiered on Showtime earlier this year, channel president David Nevins promised us that it would be the “pure heroin vision of David Lynch,” and for better or for worse this is exactly what we get. Picking up exactly… Read More Blu-ray Review: Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series
By John Corrado Rob Reiner’s Misery remains one of the best Stephen King adaptations nearly thirty years after it first came out, and now the folks at Shout! Factory have beautifully restored the classic 1990 thriller for a new Collector’s Edition Blu-ray. The film tells the story of Paul Sheldon (James Caan), a bestselling romance… Read More Blu-ray Review: Misery: Collector’s Edition
By John Corrado Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson) is a New York hustler who pulls off a brazen bank robbery with his developmentally disabled brother Nick (Benny Safdie). When Nick ends up getting arrested, and Connie evades capture, he gets in even deeper than before, needing to track down enough money to pay his brother’s bail by… Read More Blu-ray Review: Good Time
By John Corrado Every episode of the Canadian comedy series Letterkenny opens with a title card telling us that the fictitious Ontario town that gives the show its title has a scant population of five thousand residents, and “these are their problems.” The show follows Wayne (Jared Keeso), his younger sister Katy (Michele Mylett), and his… Read More DVD Review: Letterkenny: Season 1
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) James (Kyle Mooney) is a young man who has lived a sheltered life, still watching and obsessing over his VHS tapes of Brigsby Bear, the endearingly cheesy children’s show that he has grown up with. But when he discovers that no new episodes of Brigsby Bear have been made,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Brigsby Bear
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Jake (Tom Taylor) is a teenager in New York who starts having nightmares involving Roland (Idris Elba), a lone Gunslinger who’s mission is to defeat the evil Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), a devilish figure who is trying to topple the Dark Tower, which stands at the centre of… Read More Review: The Dark Tower
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Gene (T.J. Miller) is a “meh” emoji, who lives in the messenger app inside the phone of a constantly texting high schooler named Alex (Jake T. Austin). The trouble is that Mel has more than one emotion, much to the chagrin of his parents (Steven Wright and Jennifer… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Emoji Movie
By John Corrado Picking up right after where we first met him in Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming brings Peter Parker (Tom Holland) back to being an awkward high schooler, who’s growing restless and is desperate to prove himself as a real hero. Going against the wishes of his mentor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.),… Read More Blu-ray Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Taking place in Japan during World War II, In This Corner of the World follows Suzu (Laura Post), a young woman who leaves her childhood home in Hiroshima to get married, and moves to the nearby city of Kure to live with her husband Shusaku (Todd Haberkorn) and… Read More Blu-ray Review: In This Corner of the World
By John Corrado Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) is forced to confront the end of his racing career following a terrifying crash in Cars 3. Wanting to go out as a champion, but realizing that he is struggling to keep up in a world of newer racers, Lightning teams up with a perky young trainer named Cruz… Read More Blu-ray Review: Cars 3
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A long-belated follow up to his Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power follows former Vice President Al Gore as he continues to travel around the world, raising awareness of climate change and advocating for renewable energy sources like solar and wind, both here… Read More Blu-ray Review: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
By John Corrado On October 17th, Shout! Factory released special edition Blu-ray and DVD combo packs of the six Studio Ghibli films My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo, which are all directed by the legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki. These updates from the Disney releases not only… Read More Blu-ray Reviews: My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A prequel to the 2015 film Annabelle, which was itself both a spinoff and prequel to The Conjuring, Annabelle: Creation offers a well made tale of demonic possession, involving the creepy doll that acts as a conduit for evil spirits. The prologue introduces us to Samuel (Anthony LaPaglia)… Read More Blu-ray Review: Annabelle: Creation
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