By John Corrado Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the seminal John Hughes holiday classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles has been reissued once again on Blu-ray. The film of course follows uptight businessman Neal Page (Steve Martin), who is trying desperately to get home to his family for Thanksgiving, but is faced with a cancelled… Read More Blu-ray Review: Planes, Trains and Automobiles: 30th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado Over a decade after first releasing the film in theatres, director Bill Condon has gone back to his 2006 musical Dreamgirls to finally release the more complete cut of the film that he worked on, before the studio put out the slightly condensed theatrical version. Adding back in some extra scenes and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dreamgirls: Director’s Extended Edition

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is a Mexican immigrant working as a healer in Los Angeles, whose car breaks down at the home of her wealthy client Cathy (Connie Britton).  Cathy’s husband (David Warshofsky) is having business associates over for dinner, and she invites Beatriz to stay for the evening.… Read More DVD Review: Beatriz at Dinner

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When their daughter Alex (Ryan Simpkins) is accepted into Bucknell University, but loses the town scholarship that she was promised when the city councillor (Nick Kroll) decides to cut the funding, Scott (Will Ferrell) and Kate Johansen (Amy Poehler) are left with little resources to pay for their only child’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: The House

By John Corrado Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) is a young sailor whose father Will (Orlando Bloom) is doomed to a life underseas on the Flying Dutchman.  The Trident of Poseidon is the only thing that can break his curse, and Henry’s best hope of finding it is to be guided by the generally inebriated Captain Jack Sparrow… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The fifth film in Michael Bay’s blockbuster franchise that started a decade ago, Transformers: The Last Knight finds our world facing a devastating war between Autobots and Decepticons.  Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) has been made to turn against his human allies, determined to save his home planet Cybertron,… Read More Blu-ray 3D Review: Transformers: The Last Knight

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Rebecca Skloot (Rose Byrne) is a science journalist who becomes fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks (Renée Elise Goldsberry), a Baltimore woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951, and had her cells harvested while she was being treated at Johns Hopkins.  Known as Hela, her cells… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A blockbuster that instantly became a cultural phenomenon when it was released in theatres earlier this year, Wonder Woman is an entertaining superhero movie that also broke several important records, becoming the highest grossing live action film ever from a female director. The film brings to the screen… Read More Blu-ray Review: Wonder Woman

By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Jess (Scarlett Joahnsson) is about to get married in the middle of her election campaign for senate, when Alice (Jillian Bell) and her other college friends Blair (Zoë Kravitz) and Frankie (Ilana Glazer) decide to throw her a wild bachelorette party in Miami.  Jess’s Australian friend Pippa (Kate McKinnon)… Read More Blu-ray Review: Rough Night

By John Corrado One of the most well liked movies of the year, The Big Sick recounts the real life love story between struggling comic Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) and Emily (Zoe Kazan).  But their relationship is complicated by the fact the he is Pakistani and his parents (Anupam Kher and Zenobia Shroff) are trying to… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Big Sick

By John Corrado Megan Leavey (Kate Mara) is a young soldier who joins the armed forces as a way out of her dead-end life.  She is put to work in the K9 unit, and sent to Iraq with a troubled dog named Rex whom she is able to bond with.  When Rex ends up saving… Read More Blu-ray Review: Megan Leavey

By John Corrado The latest from Disneynature, Born in China gives us a rare glimpse into the wilds and mountainous regions of China, and the many animals that inhabit them.  The film follows a mother snow leopard trying to protect and provide for her two young cubs, a growing family of golden monkeys, and a panda… Read More Blu-ray Review: Born in China

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson) is the self-styled head of the Emerald Bay lifeguards, working alongside CJ Parker (Kelly Rohrbach) to keep the beach safe.  When Mitch is tasked with finding three new recruits, the eager Summer Quinn (Alexandra Daddario) and chubby underdog Ronnie Greenbaum (Jon Bass) are brought… Read More Blu-ray Review: Baywatch

By John Corrado I’ve always had a soft spot for classic westerns, and John Wayne is one of the stalwarts of the genre, with his iconic persona allowing him to inhabit many characters and headline countless films throughout his long career.  Now two of his later works, Rio Lobo and Big Jake, are available together… Read More Blu-ray Review: John Wayne Double Feature

By John Corrado The ragtag heroes Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) are back in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.  This time around, Peter is dealing with the return of his father Ego (Kurt Russell), and how this affects his familial relationships with the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Set in late 2007, The Wall follows two American soldiers who are stationed in Iraq.  Matthews (John Cena) is a sniper and Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is his spotter, and when the film opens, they have spent 22 hours lying in the dirt in the blazing sun, waiting for… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Wall

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When Mae Holland (Emma Watson) gets a job at a powerful tech company known as The Circle, she ends up discovering the true intentions of the company that controls everyone’s lives through their devices and social media platforms. At first, the company seems like an oasis of possibilities,… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Circle

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) is a teen girl who lives with her mother (Anika Noni Rose) in a completely sterile house, cut off from the rest of the physical world and not allowed to leave for fear that she will become dangerously sick due to a rare immune deficiency… Read More Blu-ray Review: Everything, Everything