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 Titled after the nickname given to the area of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenue, back when New York was still a grimy hotbed of sex and drugs before it got cleaned up in the 1980s, The Deuce is an HBO series that takes place in 1971 and focuses on the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Deuce: The Complete First Season
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 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
