Blu-ray Review: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

By John Corrado Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, the 2006 comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is getting a new Blu-ray release, including both the theatrical and unrated cuts of the film. I still remember seeing Talladega Nights in theatres when it first came out and laughing my face off, and it still holds up… Read More Blu-ray Review: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Blu-ray Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: 15th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado To mark the fifteenth anniversary of the film, the Oscar-winning modern classic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is being released on Blu-ray.  Directed by Ang Lee, the film became an instant critical and box office success upon its release, that went on to win four of its ten Academy Award nominations, and remains the highest… Read More Blu-ray Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: 15th Anniversary Edition

Blu-ray Review: Ice Age: Collision Course

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The fifth film in the popular animated franchise, arriving fourteen years after the still-best original from 2002, Ice Age: Collision Course finds its characters dealing with the various entanglements of romance. Manny (Ray Romano) is trying to keep his marriage to Ellie (Queen Latifah) from getting stale while also having a hard time accepting… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ice Age: Collision Course

Blu-ray Review: It’s a Wonderful Life: Platinum Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, the 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life is being rereleased in a new Platinum Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray.  The film follows the life of George Bailey (James Stewart), a man faced with suicidal desperation on Christmas Eve who is visited by Clarence (Henry Travers), a kind angel wanting to get… Read More Blu-ray Review: It’s a Wonderful Life: Platinum Anniversary Edition

Blu-ray Review: Ghostbusters

By John Corrado A remake of the iconic 1984 classic, Ghostbusters opened this summer and was overshadowed by a sea of hype and often ugly backlash, and now it arrives on Blu-ray where it deserves to find an even bigger audience.  This reboot of the franchise finds Dr. Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig), Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy), Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and Patty Tolan… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ghostbusters

Blu-ray Review: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When their parents tell them they have to bring respectable dates to their sister Jeanie’s (Sugar Lyn Beard) wedding in Hawaii, party-loving brothers Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave Stangle (Zac Efron) place an ad on Craigslist to try and find the perfect girls.  Enter Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Blu-ray Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 3D

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) When notorious supervillian Shredder (Brian Tee) escapes from custody and teams up with mutant henchmen Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (Sheamus), it’s up to the sewar-dwelling turtles Michelangelo (Noel Fisher), Donatello (Jeremy Howard), Leonardo (Pete Ploszek) and Raphael (Alan Ritchson) to take them down and save New… Read More Blu-ray Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 3D

Blu-ray Review: Twin Peaks: The Original Series, Fire Walk With Me & The Missing Pieces

By John Corrado When the dead body of local high schooler Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is found wrapped in plastic in the small logging town of Twin Peaks, FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) is tasked with investigating the murder, unravelling an increasingly strange mystery that enwraps the denizens of the eccentric American border town.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Twin Peaks: The Original Series, Fire Walk With Me & The Missing Pieces

DVD Review: Labyrinth: 30th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Jim Henson’s classic 1986 fantasy Labyrinth follows a teen girl (Jennifer Connelly) who is annoyed with having to babysit her little brother, and wishes for him to get taken away.  When her wish is granted by the Goblin King (David Bowie), she gets sucked into a fairy tale… Read More DVD Review: Labyrinth: 30th Anniversary Edition

Blu-ray Review: Free State of Jones

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Based on true events, Free State of Jones recounts the story of Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), a disillusioned medic in the Confederate army who deserts the Civil War and returns to Mississippi, leading a rebel militia of poor farmers and runaway slaves in an armed uprising against the corrupt government.  Their rebellion led Jones County… Read More Blu-ray Review: Free State of Jones