New This Week (11/10/2023): The Marvels, It’s a Wonderful Knife, Another Body, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 10th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: The Marvels (Wide Release): This latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe serves as a team up between Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris). I screened it earlier this week, and it’s kind of… Read More New This Week (11/10/2023): The Marvels, It’s a Wonderful Knife, Another Body, & More!

Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Eight years after the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 in 2015, director Francis Lawrence returns to this franchise with The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, an adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ 2020 prequel novel of the same name. The story is… Read More Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection

By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection on Blu-ray, an individually numbered, limited edition set including every movie and TV series featuring Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard in one very nice box. Limited to 11,750 copies worldwide, this is a truly impressive, 54-disc set that combines all seven… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection

New This Week (11/03/2023): The Holdovers, Priscilla, Rustin, Quiz Lady, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of November 3rd, 2023. Theatrical Releases: The Holdovers (Limited Release): Alexander Payne’s latest, which was the runner-up for the TIFF People’s Choice Award, is also one of the year’s best. The film is set over Christmas in 1970 at an all-boys boarding school, where an ornery teacher… Read More New This Week (11/03/2023): The Holdovers, Priscilla, Rustin, Quiz Lady, & More!

4K Ultra HD Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (SteelBook Edition)

By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. Following its run in theatres over the summer, Paramount is now releasing Mission: Impossible –… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (SteelBook Edition)

New This Week (10/27/2023): Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Killer, Fellow Travelers, When Evil Lurks, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 27th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Five Nights at Freddy’s (Wide Release): This film adaptation of the popular video game series stars Josh Hutcherson as a night security guard that gets hired at a haunted pizzeria famous for its creepy animatronics. Reviews are pretty underwhelming (I haven’t… Read More New This Week (10/27/2023): Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Killer, Fellow Travelers, When Evil Lurks, & More!

Review: The Exorcist: Believer

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) After completing his Halloween trilogy last year with the divisive Halloween Ends, director David Gordon Green now sets his sights on rebooting another classic horror property with The Exorcist: Believer, though the results are largely disappointing this time around. Like Green’s 2018 legacy sequel Halloween, The Exorcist: Believer positions… Read More Review: The Exorcist: Believer

New This Week (10/20/2023): Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall, Dicks: The Musical, & More!

By John Corrado New releases for the week of October 20th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Killers of the Flower Moon (Wide Release): The release of a new Martin Scorsese picture is always cause for celebration amongst film lovers, and Killers of the Flower Moon arrives in theatres following a splashy premiere at Cannes. Lily Gladstone, Leonardo… Read More New This Week (10/20/2023): Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall, Dicks: The Musical, & More!

Review: The Persian Version

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Persian Version, which premiered at Sundance in January, finds writer-director Maryam Keshavarz (Circumstance) dipping into her own background as an Iranian-American woman to craft an enjoyable, ambitious mother-daughter dramedy. The film centres around Leila (Layla Mohammadi), an Iranian-American aspiring filmmaker living in New York City. She has… Read More Review: The Persian Version

Blu-ray Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Collector’s Edition)

By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a vampire horror movie that takes place aboard a merchant ship in 1897, and fleshes out the backstory of the doomed voyage carrying Count Dracula. The Demeter is a Russian schooner that is travelling… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Collector’s Edition)