By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Directed by Guy Ritchie, following his entertaining pair of Sherlock Holmes films and his fun reboot of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., King Arthur: Legend of the Sword updates the classic tale of the man who freed the sword in the stone, with mostly disappointing results. This version of the… Read More Blu-ray Review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After finding out that their pensions have been frozen at the steel factory where they worked for years, and faced with more bills than they can pay, Joe Harding (Michael Caine), Willie Davis (Morgan Freeman) and Albert Garner (Alan Arkin) make the decision to turn to crime in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Going in Style
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) When Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson) moves out of the city and into the home of her new fiancé David (Geoff Stults), becoming a stepmother to his young daughter Lily (Isabella Kai Rice), things seem to finally be going well in her life. But when David’s obsessive and possessive… Read More Blu-ray Review: Unforgettable
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The first fully animated Smurfs movie, Smurfs: The Lost Village finds Smurfette (Demi Lovato) struggling with the fact that she was created by the dark wizard Gargamel (Rainn Willson), and searching for her true identity and purpose as the only female in a world of male Smurfs. When… Read More Blu-ray Review: Smurfs: The Lost Village
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) After having her human brain successfully implanted in a robotic body, making her the first of her kind in a future world where humans have melded with machines, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is sent to work as part of Section 9, fighting terrorism alongside the cybernetically enhanced Batou (Pilou… Read More Blu-ray 3D Review: Ghost in the Shell
By John Corrado Following their initial airing as part of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse in 1959, the first two episodes of the popular TV series The Untouchables were edited together into a single feature length film that was released theatrically in 1962, under the subtitle of The Scarface Mob. The film dramatizes the Prohibition-era exploits of federal agent Eliot Ness… Read More DVD Review: The Untouchables: The Scarface Mob
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The year is 1971, and monster researcher Bill Randa (John Goodman) has convinced the Nixon administration, still reeling from the Vietnam War, to fund his research trip to a hidden island in the South Pacific to investigate claims of an otherworldly beast. To help him explore and map… Read More Blu-ray Review: Kong: Skull Island
By John Corrado Set in 1978, Free Fire follows Justine (Brie Larson), who is overseeing a weapons sale between the IRA’s Chris (Cillian Murphy) and Frank (Michael Smiley), and gun dealers Ord (Armie Hammer) and Vernon (Sharlto Copley). They are selling a shipment of automatic rifles in an abandoned Boston warehouse, but things quickly escalate into an… Read More Blu-ray Review: Free Fire
By John Corrado Taking place during WWII, Their Finest follows Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton), a Welsh writer who is hired to work on a propaganda film about the Battle of Dunkirk, to boost the morale of British audiences. Although initially brought in to write the female dialogue, Catrin becomes an invaluable part of the project, and even starts… Read More DVD Review: Their Finest
By John Corrado Based on the fascinating true story of Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), James Grey’s The Lost City of Z dramatizes the three expeditions that the British soldier turned explorer took into the Amazon between 1906 and 1925. Although initially going for colonialist purposes, Fawcett brought back valuable evidence of a lost civilization that was way more advanced than anyone… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Lost City of Z
By John Corrado Based on a true story, The Zookeeper’s Wife dramatizes the lives of Antonina (Jessica Chastain) and her husband Jan Zabinski (Johan Heldenbergh), the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo who used their facilities to save hundreds of Jewish people when the Nazis invaded Poland during WWII. Although I do think there are some problems with… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewan Bremner) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) are back in T2 Trainspotting, Danny Boyle’s much awaited follow up to his breakout 1996 classic, which poignantly reunites us with the characters twenty years later. Mark is now mostly clean and living… Read More Blu-ray Review: T2 Trainspotting
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When the astronauts aboard the International Space Station bring in a soil sample from Mars, they discover a unique single-celled organism that presents the first proof of life on the Red Planet. Exobiologist Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) starts experimenting with the creature, who gets to be named Calvin,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Life
By John Corrado ★ (out of 4) Loosely based on the 1970s TV show, CHIPS follows an overly confident FBI agent (Michael Peña) who goes undercover on the California Highway Patrol as Frank “Ponch” Poncherello, and gets teamed up with brash stunt biker Jon Baker (Dax Shepard), who joins the patrol in an attempt to… Read More Blu-ray Review: CHIPS
By John Corrado Loosely based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, the TV series Under the Dome takes place in the small town of Chester’s Mill, and follows the residents after a mysterious translucent dome appears out of nowhere, cutting them off from the rest of the world and forcing the imprisoned inhabitants to… Read More DVD Review: Under the Dome: The Complete Series
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Existing as a spinoff of sorts from 2014’s The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie finds its dark and brooding hero (Will Arnett) going up against his arch nemesis the Joker (Zach Galifianakis), who is vying for the place of Batman’s favourite enemy and is working with tons of other… Read More Blu-ray Review: The LEGO Batman Movie
By John Corrado Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the 1992 drama Juice offers a compelling and still relevant portrait of four teenaged friends colliding with each other and the law in Harlem, as they seek the power they call the “Juice.” Q (Omar Epps) wants to prove himself by becoming a scratch ‘n’ mix… Read More Blu-ray Review: Juice: 25th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Walt Disney’s 1942 animated classic Bambi is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and has gotten a new Blu-ray release as part of their Signature Collection to honour the occasion. Adapted from Austrian author Felix Salten’s 1923 novel, Bambi follows a young deer who is destined to take over his father’s place… Read More Blu-ray Review: Bambi: 75th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado A live action remake of Disney’s beloved animated classic, Beauty and the Beast updates the story of a prince (Dan Stevens) cursed to live as a beast, and the young woman (Emma Watson) who sees through his appearance and starts to fall in love with him. The highest grossing movie of the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beauty and the Beast
By John Corrado Samantha (Zoey Deutch) is a popular small town high schooler who goes to a “Cupid’s Day” party with her trio of mean girl friends, only to have their car flip over on the way home after an unfortunate series of events causes them to leave. The next morning, Samantha wakes up in bed, and the whole… Read More Blu-ray Review: Before I Fall
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