By John Corrado After playing at TIFF last year, Remstar Films is releasing Good Kill on Blu-ray today.  Major Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a drone pilot, locked in a bunker firing unmanned missiles at selected targets in Afghanistan, before going home to his wife (January Jones) and kids.  But he can only manage living this… Read More Blu-ray Release: Good Kill

By John Corrado After just being released in theatres earlier this summer, Sony Pictures is releasing Aloha on DVD today.  Brian Gilcrest (Bradley Cooper) is a military contractor who returns to Hawaii to oversee the private launch of a satellite for Carson Welch (Bill Murray).  The scenic trip allows him to reconnect with his ex… Read More DVD Release: Aloha

By John Corrado Today, the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection is being released on Blu-ray.  The excellent set features a selection of twelve short films that the studio has produced over the past fifteen years, all boasting unique visual styles and worth seeing for their own reasons. First up is John Henry (2000), a gospel-infused… Read More Blu-ray Release: Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the recent rock documentary Lambert and Stamp on Blu-ray.  The film tells the story of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, a pair of aspiring filmmakers who wanted to direct a movie about a rock band and ended up mentoring and managing The Who in the process,… Read More Blu-ray Release: Lambert and Stamp

By John Corrado Last week, 20th Century Fox released the recent sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on Blu-ray.  With the highly opinionated Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) acting as his advisor, overeager manager Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) is trying to juggle the purchase of a new property to expand the hotel with preparations for his upcoming marriage, while also feeling… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

By John Corrado Last week, 20th Century Fox released X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut on Blu-ray, an extended version of last year’s summer blockbuster.  Through two previously unreleased scenes and a lot of alternate takes, this new cut includes about fifteen minutes of extra footage, mainly to expand a subplot involving Rogue (Anna Paquin). Although your willingness… Read More Blu-ray Release: X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut

By John Corrado Today, The Black Stallion is being released on Blu-ray, through Criterion.  After surviving a shipwreck that claims the life of his father (Hoyt Axton) in 1946, Alec (Kelly Reno) is left stranded on an island, developing a close bond with the wild stallion that survived alongside him.  When they are rescued, the boy… Read More Criterion Release: The Black Stallion

By John Corrado This week, Mongrel Media is releasing the recent surprise horror hit It Follows on all home entertainment platforms, including iTunes.  After having sex with her boyfriend (Jake Weary), 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe) becomes infected by a mysterious supernatural entity, leaving her plagued with disturbing visions of people chasing her, that can only be stopped by having sex… Read More Digital Release: It Follows

By John Corrado Today, Mongrel Media is releasing the critically acclaimed science fiction thriller Ex Machina on all home entertainment platforms, including iTunes.  Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is a bright computer programmer who is invited to the private estate of reclusive coding genius Nathan (Oscar Isaac), to complete the Turing Test for his latest invention, a… Read More Digital Release: Ex Machina

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the excellent documentary Merchants of Doubt on Blu-ray.  The film fascinatingly explores how fake scientists and sleazy public relations firms are hired by companies and political parties to cover up potentially harmful truths, from the tobacco industry’s unscrupulous approach to keeping toxic cigarettes on the market,… Read More Blu-ray Release: Merchants of Doubt

By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing the excellent and highly recommended thriller ’71 on Blu-ray.  The year is 1971, and after his troop is deployed to a small town in Belfast right on the border of the Protestant and Catholic conflicts, a young soldier (Jack O’Connell) gets lost in the increasingly violent riots and… Read More Blu-ray Release: ’71

By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing Danny Collins on DVD, a nice surprise from earlier in the year.  Danny Collins (Al Pacino) is an aging pop star who has grown dissatisfied of his affluent life of drugs and sex, when his manager (Christopher Plummer) gives him an undelivered letter that John Lennon wrote forty years earlier,… Read More DVD Release: Danny Collins

By John Corrado This week, the 1970 classic Five Easy Pieces is being released on Blu-ray, through the Criterion Collection.  Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) is a failed concert pianist, who is drifting through life working on an oil rig, and clinging to a stalled out relationship with waitress Rayette (Karen Black), when he goes to visit… Read More Criterion Release: Five Easy Pieces

By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing the excellent While We’re Young on Blu-ray.  Josh (Ben Stiller) is a struggling documentarian in his forties who has settled into a quiet life with his wife (Naomi Watts).  When they meet aspiring filmmaker Jamie (Adam Driver) and his free spirited wife (Amanda Seyfried), a hipster couple freewheeling… Read More Blu-ray Release: While We’re Young

By John Corrado Last week, the excellent music documentary The Wrecking Crew was released on Blu-ray.   Told through interviews and archival footage, the film recounts the story of The Wrecking Crew, a group of California studio musicians who anonymously played on some of the most famous albums of all time, helping develop the West Coast Sound and also ushering in producer… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Wrecking Crew

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures is releasing the recent science fiction film Chappie on Blu-ray.  Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) is a computer engineer in South Africa, who helped launch the world’s first robotic police force.  But when he steals a broken droid and creates a sentient machine, the invention named Chappie (Sharlto Copley) gets hijacked by a violent… Read More Blu-ray Release: Chappie

By John Corrado After being Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Wild Tales on Blu-ray today.  Directed by Damián Szifron, the Argentinian film weaves together six different stories, involving a doomed flight, a waitress seeking revenge, an extreme case of road rage, the surprising fallout from a parking ticket, the… Read More Blu-ray Release: Wild Tales