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 Last week, Paramount released the complete collections of Frasier, MacGyver and The Brady Bunch on DVD, a trio of impressively sized boxed sets that offer an innumerable amount of discs between them, and come highly recommended for both television enthusiasts and fans of the individual series. Frasier: The Complete Series: Running from 1993 to 2004, Frasier follows… Read More DVD Release: Complete Series of Frasier, MacGyver and The Brady Bunch
By John Corrado Last week, the classic 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams was released for the first time on Blu-ray, through the Criterion Collection. The film follows William Gates and Arthur Agee throughout their high school careers, two inner-city kids in Chicago who dream of playing professional basketball, with the chance of elusive sports scholarships being the only hope their… Read More Criterion Release: Hoop Dreams
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
By John Corrado Today, Paramount is releasing writer-director Chris Rock’s Top Five on Blu-ray. Andre Allen (Chris Rock) is a celebrated standup comedian, who has become a sellout movie star, and now wants to be taken seriously as an actor. But on the weekend of his new movie release, and widely publicized reality show marriage,… Read More Blu-ray Release: Top Five
By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures is releasing last year’s Annie remake on Blu-ray. Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) is a New York foster kid, living with the nasty Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But when business tycoon and mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) takes her into his home as a campaign move, the little orphan’s life suddenly… Read More Blu-ray Release: Annie
By John Corrado Paramount is releasing Star Trek: The Original Series: Captain Kirk’s Boldest Missions on DVD today, a two disc set including eight episodes of the classic show that prominently feature William Shatner’s leading character. This is essentially the TV equivalent of a greatest hits album, and considering that most fans will want the… Read More DVD Release: Star Trek: The Original Series: Captain Kirk’s Boldest Missions
By John Corrado Today, 20th Century Fox is releasing Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb on Blu-ray. Larry Daly (Ben Stiller) faces a new challenge when the reanimated historical figures at the Museum of Natural History start to lose control. With the tablet that allows them to come alive quickly losing power, the only… Read More Blu-ray Release: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
By John Corrado Fresh off winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Disney is releasing Big Hero 6 on Blu-ray today. Following teenaged robotics genius Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) and his huggable health care companion Baymax (Scott Adsit), this is a beautifully animated film that mixes a superhero origin story with poignant themes of grief and… Read More Blu-ray Release: Big Hero 6
By John Corrado Today, Sony Pictures is releasing the recent Oscar-winner Whiplash on Blu-ray. Following the tense and often volatile relationship between aspiring jazz drummer Andrew (Miles Teller), and his abusive teacher Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), this is a stunning music drama that plays with the charged intensity of a thriller. Winning much deserved trophies for… Read More Blu-ray Release: Whiplash
By John Corrado Director Martin Rosen’s 1978 animated classic Watership Down is being released on Blu-ray today, through the Criterion Collection. Adapted from the classic novel by Richard Adams, the story follows a community of rabbits, who are under threat from modern development. Although Watership Down takes its time in telling the story, this is a mature and beautifully animated film… Read More Criterion Release: Watership Down
By John Corrado Last week, Paramount released the 1977 animated feature Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown for the first time on DVD. This adventure follows Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang to summer camp, where they end up competing against each other and a group of bullies in a river race.… Read More DVD Release: Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
By John Corrado Two weeks ago, D Films released My Old Lady on DVD. When his father dies, depressed New Yorker Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) returns to the Paris apartment that was left to him with plans to sell the large property, only to find the place occupied by the feisty elderly woman Mathilde (Maggie… Read More DVD Release: My Old Lady
By John Corrado Sony Pictures is releasing Predestination on Blu-ray today, a hidden gem from last year’s festival circuit, that demands and deserves your attention. The film follows a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) who has the ability to travel through time, and is on his final mission to stop a devastating bombing before it occurs.… Read More Blu-ray Release: Predestination
By John Corrado Today, Elevation Pictures is releasing the great Nightcrawler on Blu-ray. Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a small time thief who discovers the competitive world of freelance crime journalism, filming various emergencies and selling his unflinching footage to a local TV station. There he meets Nina (Rene Russo), a cutthroat news director equally willing… Read More Blu-ray Release: Nightcrawler
By John Corrado Today, Disney is releasing Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on Blu-ray. Feeling like nobody understands his rotten luck, young Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) wishes that his family would know what it’s like to have a truly bad day, and that’s exactly what his parents (Steve Carell and Jennifer… Read More Blu-ray Release: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
