By John Corrado Today, Disney is releasing their most recent sports drama McFarland on Blu-ray.  Based on a true story, the inspiring film follows determined coach Jim White (Kevin Costner), who moves to the dirt poor small town of McFarland, California with his family, and starts coaching a group of seven struggling high schoolers into… Read More Blu-ray Release: McFarland

By John Corrado Last week, Video Service Corp released What We Do in the Shadows on Blu-ray.  Shot as a mockumentary, the comedy follows Vladislav (Jemaine Clement), Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonny Brugh) and Petyr (Ben Fransham), and the newly transformed Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer), a group of flatmates in New Zealand who happen to be vampires.… Read More Blu-ray Release: What We Do in the Shadows

By John Corrado Last week, Charles Chaplin’s Limelight was released on Blu-ray, as part of the Criterion Collection.  Through one of his most personal and emotional screenplays, the 1952 classic shows the bond that forms between Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a fading clown who is struggling to remain relevant, and Thereza (Claire Bloom), a depressed young ballet… Read More Criterion Release: Limelight

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing the acclaimed Russian drama Leviathan on Blu-ray.  The film takes place in a small coastal town, where Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) and his wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) are fighting to save their property from the corrupt mayor (Roman Madyanov), but the arrival of his lawyer (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) leads… Read More Blu-ray Release: Leviathan

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Still Alice on Blu-ray.  Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is a highly intelligent linguistics professor and mother of three, who finds her life turned upside down when she is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, putting a strain on her relationship with husband John (Alec Baldwin) and their freethinking… Read More Blu-ray Release: Still Alice

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Mr. Turner on Blu-ray.  Directed by Mike Leigh, the biopic documents the life and affairs of the gruff and anti-social landscape painter Joseph Mallard William Turner (Timothy Spall). Although a bit dry and overlong, and often moving at a slow pace, this is an artistic achievement that… Read More Blu-ray Release: Mr. Turner

By John Corrado Today, Paramount is releasing Selma on Blu-ray.  Directed by Ava DuVernay, the incredibly powerful drama follows Martin Luther King Jr.’s (David Oyelowo) historic civil rights march in 1965, putting pressure on President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to sign the Voting Rights Act. Although nominated for Best Picture, and deservedly winning Best Original… Read More Blu-ray Release: Selma

By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released The Gambler on Blu-ray.  A remake of the 1974 James Caan classic, the film follows Jim Bennet (Mark Wahlberg), a depressed university professor who moonlights as a high stakes gambler and owes money, forcing him to connect with a loan shark (John Goodman), and complicating his relationship to… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Gambler

By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures is releasing The Wedding Ringer on Blu-ray.  Desperate to find a best man for his wedding to the uptight Gretchen Palmer (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), the socially awkward Doug Harris (Josh Gad) hires the smooth Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart), the head of a company that rents out wedding parties to guys in need.… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Wedding Ringer

By John Corrado Today, the 1941 classic Sullivan’s Travels is being released on Blu-ray, through the Criterion Collection.  John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is a popular director of escapist studio fare, who finds himself at an existential crossroads, and wants to make a serious film that will accurately depict the harsh realities of life.  Posing… Read More Criterion Release: Sullivan’s Travels

By John Corrado Elevation Pictures is releasing The Rewrite on DVD.  Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) is an award-winning screenwriter who is past his prime in Hollywood, and begrudgingly takes a teaching job at a small town university.  But despite his initial inappropriate behaviour and attempts to avoid actual work, the class, including mature student Holly Carpenter… Read More DVD Release: The Rewrite

By John Corrado Elevation Pictures is releasing A Most Violent Year on Blu-ray today.  Named for the high crime rate in New York in 1981, the story centres around Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), a hardworking immigrant struggling to keep his heating and oil business afloat amidst allegations of fraud and threats of violence, and his… Read More Blu-ray Release: A Most Violent Year

By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing The Imitation Game on Blu-ray.  The handsomely produced film is based on the true story of brilliant but socially awkward mathematician Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), who was enlisted by British forces to help break the Enigma codes at the height of World War II, with help from… Read More Blu-ray Release: The Imitation Game

By John Corrado Today, Disney is releasing director Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods on Blu-ray.  The musical follows a childless baker (James Cordon) and his wife (Emily Blunt), who must travel into the woods to reverse a longstanding curse that has been placed upon them by the Witch (Meryl Streep), encountering different fairy tale characters… Read More Blu-ray Release: Into the Woods

By John Corrado Last week, 20th Century Fox released Exodus: Gods and Kings on Blu-ray.  Directed by Ridley Scott, this Bible epic recounts the story of Moses (Christian Bale), and how he came to free his people from the Egyptian rule of his adopted brother Ramses (Joel Edgerton). There are some stirring special effects, and… Read More Blu-ray Release: Exodus: Gods and Kings