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
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) “If you must blink, do it now.” These are the first lines of voiceover heard during the gripping prologue of Kubo and the Two Strings, and they apply perfectly to the film. You simply don’t want to blink during this visually stunning stop motion adventure, which keeps wowing us with… Read More Blu-ray Review: Kubo and the Two Strings
By John Corrado Arriving thirteen years after the release of the beloved Finding Nemo, Finding Dory focuses on Dory (Ellen Degeneres) as she starts having flashes of remembering her parents, Jenny (Diane Keaton) and Charlie (Eugene Levy). When she sets off to find them, Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) follow her to the Marine… Read More Blu-ray Review: Finding Dory
By John Corrado “Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.” Delivered partway through Taxi Driver, these words have lingered in my mind since I first saw Martin Scorsese’s iconic 1976 classic, and they are just as haunting and relevant now, especially as the film is celebrating its fortieth… Read More Blu-ray Review: Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Dreamt up by writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg who wanted to craft a Pixar-style computer animated film for adults, Sausage Party imagines a world where grocery store items are alive, and living under the delusion of entering “The Great Beyond” when they are taken out of the supermarket… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sausage Party
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The third entry into the rebooted franchise, Star Trek Beyond finds Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of crew of the Enterprise stranded on an alien planet after their ship is ambushed by the villainous Krall (Idris Elba), leading them to team… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek Beyond 3D
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
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
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
By John Corrado A much less successful followup to Tim Burton’s 2010 take on Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass follows Alice (Mia Wasikowska) as she is guided through a mirror that takes her back to Underland. The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) has grown sick, and the clues to cure him lie in the past,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Alice Through the Looking Glass
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) When an ancient and powerful mutant named Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) is awoken after thousands of years and becomes hellbent on wiping out humanity, it’s up to Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), as well as a team of young mutants including Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Cyclops (Tye… Read More Blu-ray Review: X-Men: Apocalypse
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
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
By John Corrado When people talk about a lack of originality in film, Swiss Army Man now exists to prove them wrong as a glorious example of something admirably unique that’s literally never been done before. This is the story of Hank (Paul Dano), a depressed man stranded in the wilderness who finds an unlikely friend in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Swiss Army Man
By John Corrado Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) is a foster kid who has just been placed with Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and Hector (Sam Neill), an older couple who live on a rural property in New Zealand. But when tragic circumstances lead Ricky to run away, Hector goes after him, and the two start to… Read More DVD Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Based on a true story, Genius recounts the unlikely friendship that developed between book editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth) and young author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), as the two worked together on the classic novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. This unique relationship between creator… Read More DVD Review: Genius
