By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) First published by Dr. Seuss in 1957, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! has become a beloved staple of the holiday season, with its rhyming story and heartfelt message about rediscovering the true meaning of Christmas. The book has been adapted multiple times over the years, furthering the prevalence of… Read More Review: The Grinch
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Adam (Calum Worthy) is a nerdy graduate student at Berkeley who is fascinated by battle rap. Writing his thesis paper on the use of the “N-word” in hip-hop culture, despite not saying it himself, he is the epitome of a young, white progressive trying to balance being seen as… Read More Review: Bodied
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) From ending up in someone’s engagement photos, to serving drinks at a bar, and even doing the dishes at a random house party, there are a lot of urban legends that exist on the internet about encounters that random people have had with Bill Murray. Colloquially known as… Read More Review: The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man
By John Corrado One of the nicest surprises of the year, Disney’s Christopher Robin finds the titular character as an adult (played by Ewan McGregor), who gets reunited with Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings), and the rest of his childhood friends from the Hundred Acre Wood, in order to help him rediscover what is important… Read More Blu-ray Review: Christopher Robin
By John Corrado A sequel fourteen years in the making, and one of the biggest box office hits of the year, Incredibles 2 is arriving on Blu-ray this week. I found this to be an incredibly entertaining animated sequel, and for more on the film itself, you can read my full review of Pixar’s latest right here. The… Read More Blu-ray Review: Incredibles 2
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A nightmarish, heavy metal-inspired revenge fantasy that stars Nicolas Cage at his most unhinged and plays like a demented, hallucinatory fever dream, Mandy is one of the more unique films to be released this year. It’s set in 1983, and follows Red Miller (Cage), a lumberjack who lives… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mandy
By John Corrado A biopic of controversial, alcoholic cartoonist John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), who became a quadriplegic after surviving a drunk driving accident, Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is a powerful film about overcoming adversity that has stuck with me since I watched it over the summer. Much of… Read More DVD Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
By John Corrado Bo Burnham’s directorial debut, Eighth Grade, is one of the biggest breakout hits of the year. Built around a sensitive and incredibly authentic performance from Elsie Fisher, the film presents an engaging and at times painfully believable portrait of what it’s like to be a shy and awkward kid in middle school,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Eighth Grade
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, a new fantasy adventure from the studio that arrives in time for the holiday season, takes its cues from a variety of sources. Firstly, the film draws inspiration from E.T.A. Hoffman’s original 1816 story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, as… Read More Review: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
To celebrate the home entertainment release of Hotel Transylvania 3, and in honour of Halloween this week, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has provided us with a copy of the Blu-ray to give away to one lucky Canadian reader! To enter, simply send an email to info@onemoviefiveviews.com with the subject line “Win a Copy of Hotel… Read More Contest: Win a Copy of Hotel Transylvania 3 on Blu-ray!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Dracula (Adam Sandler) is back in Hotel Transylvania 3, the latest film in director Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated series. The result is an amusing threequel that shows there is still some fun to be had with these characters, and if you liked the first two, then you are sure… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hotel Transylvania 3
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Based on the Cartoon Network series Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is a feature length version of the show that uses meta humour to further the adventures of teen superhero friends Robin (Scott Menville), Cyborg (Khary Payton), Raven (Tara Strong), Starfire (Hynden Walch) and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Making his directorial debut, Jonah Hill has delivered one of the very best movies of the year with Mid90s, an incredibly enjoyable coming of age film that, like its title suggests, transports us back to the 1990s and captures the era perfectly. The indie flick follows Stevie (Sunny… Read More Review: Mid90s
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The tumultuous experience of trying to find help for a loved one with dementia, and the effects that it has on the rest of the family, is explored in What They Had, a believable character-driven film that uses gentle humour and genuine emotion to explore a sensitive topic.… Read More Review: What They Had
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Did we really need a belated sequel to Mamma Mia! The Movie? Not really, but Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is just so enjoyable to watch that it’s hard to really care. Arriving a full decade after the first one, the film takes us back to the Greek… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Picking up shortly after the events of the 2015 film Sicario, Sicario: Day of the Soldado focuses on a new crisis at the United States-Mexico border, when the drug cartels that control the area get into the business of smuggling terrorists into the country. Looking to enforce border… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sicario: Day of the Soldado
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Loosely based on her own life and family, writer-director Shana Feste assembles a stacked cast of familiar faces in Boundaries to tell the story of a single mother Laura (Vera Farmiga) and her socially awkward son Henry (Lewis MacDougall), who end up on a road trip with her estranged… Read More DVD Review: Boundaries
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The English-language debut of Belgian filmmaker Felix Van Groeningen, who is best known for his Oscar-nominated 2012 film The Broken Circle Breakdown, Beautiful Boy is a heartbreaking and deeply emotional addiction drama, that is anchored by superb performances from Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. The film is based on a… Read More Review: Beautiful Boy
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Forty years after terrorizing the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night, the silent killer Michael Myers (Nick Castle) returns to once again wreak havoc on October 31st and hunt down Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who survived his first rampage. Laurie has spent the past forty years… Read More Review: Halloween
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) “I pledge my loyalty to my President and my country and vow to defend them from enemies, both foreign and domestic.” This is the Patriot’s Oath at the centre of The Oath, an uneven but still topical and often entertaining political satire that marks the directorial debut of… Read More Review: The Oath
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