By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) It’s the last day of classes at an underfunded American high school, and tensions are on the rise amongst the teachers, with the students pulling increasingly extreme pranks, and the board threatening imminent downsizing across all departments. But when mild mannered English teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) accidentally causes… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fist Fight

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) is taken down, and a satellite-controlling device known as Pandora’s Box is stolen by a rebel group led by Xiang (Donnie Yen), extreme athlete turned special agent Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is called back into action to work for the government. Refusing to work with other… Read More Blu-ray Review: xXx: Return of Xander Cage

By John Corrado Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, director John Badham’s iconic 1977 classic Saturday Night Fever has now gotten a beautifully restored new Blu-ray edition, which includes both the theatrical version and the slightly longer director’s cut of the film. Tony Manero (John Travolta) is a working class Italian-American teenager in Brooklyn, who works part time… Read More Blu-ray Review: Saturday Night Fever: 40th Anniversary Director’s Cut

By John Corrado Loosely based on a true story, Gold follows Texas prospector Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) who is desperate for a big break and becomes convinced that he can strike gold in the jungles of Indonesia, teaming up with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Remírez) to help him excavate and get their commodity on the stock market. Although the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Gold

By John Corrado Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the 1992 classic A League of Their Own is inspired by the true story of The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was founded by Philip K. Wrigley in 1943 as a way to keep Major League Baseball alive during World War II, when all the best male… Read More Blu-ray Review: A League of Their Own: 25th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado With human civilization having been all but destroyed by a zombie virus, Melanie (Sennia Nanua) is a young girl who represents the next evolution of the disease and is being kept locked up so that her organs can be harvested to create a cure.  But when their safe military compound comes under… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Girl With All the Gifts

By John Corrado Recounting the true story of how McDonald’s became what it is today, The Founder focuses on the slick salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), who discovered a family burger joint in the 1950s run by brothers Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman), and got them to franchise their business so he could take… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Founder

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Ines Conradi (Sandra Hüller) is a workaholic, who doesn’t really have much time to spend with her practical joking father Winfried (Peter Simonischek) in Germany.  So Winfried travels to Bucharest, where his daughter is working with a consulting firm that is looking at downsizing the amount of workers in the oil field, and… Read More DVD Review: Toni Erdmann

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) After a sleazy small town oil drilling operation accidentally shakes a trio of ancient sea creatures back to the surface from an ecosystem deep underground, the unscrupulous boss (Rob Lowe) convinces his geologist (Thomas Lennon) to keep the discovery hidden.  But one of the tentacled beings ends up finding his… Read More Blu-ray Review: Monster Trucks

By John Corrado Directed by Garth Brooks, Lion recounts the true story of Saroo Brierly’s journey to reconnect with his birth family after getting lost on the crowded streets of India.  The first half focuses on Saroo as a young boy (Sunny Pawar) who gets lost in Calcutta, and is adopted by an Australian couple (Nicole Kidman and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Lion

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Josh Parker (Jason Bateman) is the chief technical officer at the Chicago branch of a struggling tech firm, working for the well-meaning but somewhat irresponsible department head Clay Vanstone (T.J. Miller), who inherited the position from his late father. They are in the process of planning a “non-denominational… Read More Blu-ray Review: Office Christmas Party

By John Corrado Focusing on the events of the rebellion that was hinted at in the opening crawl of the original 1977 film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story follows Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), who is recruited by a group of rebel soldiers to help steal the plans for the Death Star, a super weapon that her… Read More Blu-ray Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

By John Corrado Directed by Mike Mills, loosely basing the story on his own childhood, 20th Century Women follows teenage protagonist Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) who is essentially being raised by the three women in his life, including single mother Dorothea (Annette Bening), their tenant Abbie (Greta Gerwig), and his best friend Julie (Elle Fanning). With outstanding… Read More DVD Review: 20th Century Women

By John Corrado Chad Cutler (Michael Fassbender) lives with his wife (Lyndsey Marshal) and their two young kids in the same trailer park as his notorious crime boss father Cal (Brendan Gleeson).  Chad is desperate to break away from a life of crime and go clean, not wanting his son to grow up like him,… Read More DVD Review: Trespass Against Us

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Garupe (Adam Driver) are Jesuit priests in 17th century Portugal.  When they travel to Japan, both to spread their religion and also to locate their mentor Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson), who was captured for preaching his beliefs and may have apostatized, they find their… Read More Blu-ray Review: Silence

By John Corrado A prequel to the Harry Potter series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them takes place in the 1920s and follows Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) as he arrives in New York from Hogwarts, and accidentally unleashes the creatures inside his magical briefcase. Serving as a polished piece of world building that is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck) is a Boston-born gangster in Prohibition era, who operates on a different side of the law from his Irish cop father (Brendan Gleeson).  Following a run in with the Italian mob, he senses a way to get rich by moving his business to Miami and trying to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Live By Night