By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The title of Poop Talk provides the most apt description of what this documentary is about. Directed by Aaron N. Feldman, who closely collaborated with brothers Randy and Jason Sklar on the project, the film features a bunch of stand up comics talking about, you guessed it, poop.… Read More Review: Poop Talk
By John Corrado Directed by George Clooney, working from a decades old script by Joel and Ethan Coen, Suburbicon takes place in a seemingly idyllic 1950s community made up of white families and cookie cutter houses, that is rocked not only by a brutal invasion at the home of Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon), but also… Read More Blu-ray Review: Suburbicon
By John Corrado Titled after the nickname given to the area of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenue, back when New York was still a grimy hotbed of sex and drugs before it got cleaned up in the 1980s, The Deuce is an HBO series that takes place in 1971 and focuses on the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Deuce: The Complete First Season
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The first time we see August “Auggie” Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) in Wonder, he is jumping on the bed, with his head floating up and down in slow motion in front of the stars painted on his wall, and his face obscured by a plastic astronaut helmet. Auggie is… Read More Review: Wonder
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Rob Grant and Mike Kovac are a pair of friends and independent filmmakers from Vancouver, and at the beginning of their documentary project Fake Blood, Rob tells us in voiceover that they are no longer on speaking terms. The film then goes back to tell us what happened… Read More Review: Fake Blood
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Ben Layton (Thomas Middleditch) is in the throes of depression, finding himself unable to cope after his wife left him for another man. But he finds a new purpose in life when he finds out that his parents nearly adopted a baby girl, who they had to give… Read More Review: Entanglement
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Marina (Daniela Vega) is a transwoman in Chile, who is dating the much older man Orlando (Francisco Reyes). When Orlando suddenly falls ill and dies while they are together, his family starts to place the blame on Marina, barring her from coming to the funeral service, driven by… Read More Review: A Fantastic Woman
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Last night, Netflix surprised everyone with a Super Bowl spot announcing that they were going to be dropping The Cloverfield Paradox right after the big game. There was no prior advertising for the film, no critics had seen it yet, and the title wasn’t even confirmed up until… Read More Review: The Cloverfield Paradox
By John Corrado This always happens. I was hoping to put up my list of the best movies of 2017 closer to the end of the year for once, but I ended up spending January playing catch up on films that I had either missed last year, or weren’t even getting wide releases until this… Read More The Best Movies of 2017
By John Corrado Earlier in the month, Julie Taymor’s 2007 jukebox musical Across the Universe got the 4K UHD treatment. The film reimagines the events of the 1960s, including the Detroit riots, the Vietnam War, and the experimentations with hallucinogenic drugs that defined the decade, all set to the iconic music of the Beatles. The… Read More 4K UHD Review: Across the Universe
By John Corrado Based on a true story, Breathe dramatizes the life of Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), a disability rights advocate who was struck with polio in the 1950s and left paralyzed from the neck down. Although initially confined to a hospital bed, Robin was able to survive at home thanks to the dedication of his wife… Read More DVD Review: Breathe
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The latest from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread is said to have been inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 classic Rebecca, and it does indeed have the feel of an old romantic drama from the 1940s or ’50s, albeit with a twisted side to it that is fascinating to unravel… Read More Review: Phantom Thread
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Right from the opening scene of Logan, a brutal attempted carjacking staged in the middle of the sparse New Mexico desert, the film immediately sets itself up as offering something different from the majority of other comic book movies, let alone the ones in the X-Men universe. This… Read More Review: Logan
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Wink (Ian McLaren) is a member of the Badsville Kings, a greaser gang that tries to rule over the depressed title town in Badsville, a gritty crime drama that takes place just outside of Los Angeles and explores themes of loyalty and rivalry between gang members. When Wink falls… Read More Review: Badsville
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) When climate change starts running amok, causing devastating natural disasters around the globe, the world’s governments hire the cocky scientist Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) to set up the Dutch Boy Program, a high tech network of satellites that are connected to a space station and control the Earth’s… Read More Blu-ray Review: Geostorm
By John Corrado The latest from director Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer follows Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell), a cardiac surgeon who strikes up a strange friendship with an offbeat teen named Martin (Barry Keoghan), but things start to go horribly wrong when he brings the troubled teen home to meet his wife (Nicole… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
By John Corrado The first ever fully hand painted feature film, Loving Vincent takes place a year after the suicide of Vincent Van Gogh (Robert Gulaczyk), and follows a postman’s son (Douglas Booth) who is tasked with delivering a lost letter that the Dutch artist had written to his brother, and ends up becoming intrigued… Read More iTunes Review: Loving Vincent
By John Corrado Based on a book by Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck tells the interconnecting stories of Rose (Millicent Simmonds), a young deaf girl in 1927, and Ben (Oakes Fegley), a preteen boy in the Midwest in 1973 who goes deaf when lightning strikes his house, who both run away to New York. Although the film isn’t… Read More iTunes Review: Wonderstruck
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Directed by Ai Weiwei, Human Flow is a mix of documentary and art project that offers an on the ground look at the migrant crisis in Europe, filmed over 23 different countries. The film offers a sprawling look at the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from war… Read More iTunes Review: Human Flow
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) When most people hear the name of figure skater Tonya Harding, they recall the 1994 incident when her rival Nancy Kerrigan’s knee was bashed in, mere weeks before they were both set to compete at the Olympics in Lilliehammer, Norway. But the truth is that she wasn’t even… Read More Review: I, Tonya
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