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

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 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 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 ★★★ (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 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