By John Corrado The 2002 action film xXx has now arrived in a new Blu-ray edition to coincide with both the film’s 15th anniversary, as well as the release of the franchise’s latest instalment xXx: Return of Xander Cage, which just came to theatres this past weekend. A solid box office hit of its time, xXx follows Xander Cage (Vin Diesel), a thrill-seeking extreme sports… Read More Blu-ray Review: xXx: 15th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado After returning from the war, Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) decides to live a life of solitude as a lighthouse keeper.  Then he falls in love with Isabel Graysmark (Alicia Vikander), and she moves to the island with him.  When they find a dead man and a baby girl floating in a rowboat, they… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Light Between Oceans

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Christian Wolfe (Ben Affleck) is an accountant who has Asperger’s syndrome, and was raised by a militant father (Robert C. Treveiler) who taught him survival skills so that he could stand up against bullies. These survival skills come in handy considering that most of his clients are crime bosses and drug… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Accountant

By John Corrado First released in 2001, and receiving Oscar nominations for Will Smith and Jon Voight, Ali is an impressionistic biopic that follows Muhammad Ali (Will Smith) over a decade of his life in the 1960s and ’70s.  Last year, the film received a new cut to coincide with its 15th anniversary, which is now… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ali: 15th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

By John Corrado Dramatizing the events of the worst oil spill in United States history, Deepwater Horizon centres its narrative around engineer and family man Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), who goes to work on the rig off the Gulf of Mexico and starts to realize that things are going very wrong. Expertly crafted on a technical scale,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Deepwater Horizon

By John Corrado Recounting the events of a landmark court case in the 1990s, Denial tells the story of Jewish professor and historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), who was taken to court by David Irving (Timothy Spall), a Holocaust denier who has devoted his life to discrediting proof that Aushwitz was ever used as a killing machine. Built around… Read More DVD Review: Denial

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) is a rich heiress who has always dreamed of being an opera singer, with the only problem being that she is oblivious to the fact that she can’t sing.  But her husband St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) is fully willing to keep her dreams alive,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Florence Foster Jenkins

By John Corrado Boasting a fine performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role, Snowden uses a narrative that jumps around in time to show Edward Snowden’s career trajectory from a patriotic army hopeful to working for the NSA, which leads him to the startling realization that compel him to steal classified documents proving to the world that the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Snowden

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) When his grandfather (Terence Stamp) is murdered by a vicious monster, Jake (Asa Butterfield) discovers a mystery that takes him to an old children’s home in Wales.  Run by shapeshifting headmistress Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), the house provides residency for children who all have their own unique special powers. But the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

By John Corrado After her husband is killed by a capitalist land baron (Peter Saarsgard), Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett) enlists bounty hunter Sam Chisholm (Denzel Washington) to help her get vengeance and protect their land.  Sam rounds up a motley crew (Chris Pratt, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ethan Hawke, Byung-hun Lee, Vincent D’Onofrio, Martin Sensmeier) to help prepare… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Magnificent Seven

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Still recovering from being brutal assaulted and robbed, Brad (Ben Schnetzer) goes to college, hoping to start a new chapter of his life.  But when his older brother Brett (Nick Jonas) convinces him to join his fraternity, Brad faces a whole new level of pain and humiliation as the pledging rituals become increasingly horrifying… Read More DVD Review: Goat

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When his mother (Margo Martindale) is diagnosed with a brain tumour, John Hollar (John Krasinski) returns to the hometown where his father (Richard Jenkins) and brother (Sharlto Copley) still live.  As he faces his mother’s potential mortality, John also has to help deal with various other family problems,… Read More DVD Review: The Hollars

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A remake of the classic 1959 biblical epic, which was itself a remake of a 1925 silent film, Ben-Hur is another version of the classic story of adoptive brothers Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) and Massala Severus (Toby Kebbell), who’s loyalty is tested when Massala joins the Roman army and betrays… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ben-Hur

By John Corrado The biggest movie of 2015, and a thoroughly entertaining blockbuster that does a fine job of continuing this classic saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available in a glorious 3D Collector’s Edition to give fans the definitive version of the film. Although many fans will have already gotten the original Blu-ray release from… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: 3D Collector’s Edition

By John Corrado Arriving a few months after the original Blu-ray release, The Jungle Book: 3D Collector’s Edition has now arrived, offering fans the definitive version of Disney’s excellent remake.  For more on the film itself, which is one of the year’s best, you can read our three views right here. Although some will question the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Jungle Book: 3D Collector’s Edition

By John Corrado Directed by Steven Spielberg, bringing Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book to the big screen, The BFG follows the budding friendship between bright but lonely young girl Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), and a towering creature who calls himself the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance), who takes her from an orphanage in the middle of the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The BFG

By John Corrado After a devastating accident left him orphaned, Pete (Oakes Fegley) was raised in the woods by a friendly dragon named Elliot.  When Pete is discovered by forest ranger Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her boyfriend’s daughter Natalie (Oona Laurence), whose father Jack (Wes Bentley) works for a logging operation, their small town is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pete’s Dragon

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When a trio of young thieves, Rocky (Jane Levy), Alex (Dylan Minnette) and Money (Daniel Zovatto), try to steal a large chunk of cash from the house of a blind war veteran (Stephen Lang) in a rundown Detroit neighbourhood, they get more than they bargained for when he starts… Read More Blu-ray Review: Don’t Breathe

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When four couples, including Annie (Melanie Lynskey) and her fiancé Matt (Jason Ritter), Jessie (Clea DuVall) and her partner Sarah (Natasha Lyonne), and Jack (Ben Schwartz) and his much younger girlfriend Laura (Alia Shawkat), stay together at an old family estate house, things become awkward when it’s revealed that Annie intends the trip to be… Read More DVD Review: The Intervention