By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Narrated by Rossif Sutherland, The Physics of Sorrow is an animated short film that finds an unnamed immigrant reflecting upon his memories of first falling in love as a boy with a girl from the circus, his abusive father, his time in the army in communist Bulgaria, and… Read More #TIFF19 Review: The Physics of Sorrow (Short Cuts)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A sequel to Illumination’s 2016 animated hit The Secret Life of Pets, The Secret Life of Pets 2 pretty much offers more of the same in terms of animated pet antics, and if you enjoyed the first film like I did, then that’s a good thing. The first film… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Secret Life of Pets 2
By John Corrado One of my favourite movies of the year so far, Laika’s latest beautifully animated stop motion adventure Missing Link is being released on Blu-ray this week. The film follows a 19th century explorer, Sir Lionel Frost (Hugh Jackman), who befriends an eight foot tall Sasquatch (Zach Galifianakis) who wants help finding the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Missing Link
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) There is a huge market for nostalgia these days, and this is a big part of what is fuelling Disney’s surge of live action remakes over the past few years, many of which have proven to be hugely popular with audiences. The studio most recently found financial success… Read More Review: The Lion King
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Directed by the filmmaking team of Patrick Imbert and Benjamin Renner, who also brought us the wonderful Ernest & Celestine a few years back, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales is a French animated film that is a real treat to watch from start to finish. After… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
By John Corrado This week, Disney is releasing a new edition of their 1950 animated classic Cinderella, as part of their current series of Signature Collection releases. While the film’s seventieth anniversary will not be officially celebrated until next year, this is also being sold as an anniversary edition. This has always been one of my… Read More Blu-ray Review: Cinderella: The Signature Collection
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) I spent the better part of this decade thinking that I didn’t need a fourth Toy Story. The Pixar series that began in 1995 received a heartbreaking and almost unexpectedly perfect conclusion with Toy Story 3 in 2010, so the natural assumption was that the story was done… Read More Review: Toy Story 4
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A little girl named June Bailey (Brianna Denski) has the magical amusement park from her imagination suddenly become real in Wonder Park, a mediocre new film from Paramount’s animation division that is mildly amusing at times but fails to really live up to its high concept premise. June… Read More Blu-ray Review: Wonder Park
By John Corrado The third and final film in the DreamWorks Animation series that started nearly a decade ago in 2010, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World was released in theatres earlier this year, and is now coming to Blu-ray this week. This is a very good final chapter to an excellent animated… Read More Blu-ray Review: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Despite it being a smash hit, I didn’t love The LEGO Movie when it came out in 2014, an opinion that put me squarely in the minority. While the majority of people praised it as an inventive and imaginative animated film, and it did have a few moments, to… Read More Blu-ray Review: The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Brazilian animated film Tito and the Birds takes place in a dystopic version of our world that has been crippled by fear, leading to a mysterious outbreak of a disease rooted in fear that ravages people’s bodies to the point where they shrink down and turn into rocks.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tito and the Birds
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The latest stop motion animated film from Laika, Missing Link continues their perfect track record, while also being somewhat of a departure for the Portland, Oregon studio. While the studio’s first four films – Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls and Kubo and the Two Strings – all focused on… Read More Review: Missing Link
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) It’s been nine years since the first How to Train Your Dragon came out and blew audiences away with its soaring visuals and emotionally resonant story. The film received a sequel in 2014 that took the story in an even deeper and darker direction, drastically raising the emotional… Read More Review: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
By John Corrado It’s hard to believe that SpongeBob SquarePants – the adventures of a bright yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea – has been on the air for twenty years now, but it’s true. Created by Stephen Hillenburg, who sadly passed away late last year, the show premiered on Nickelodeon… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The First & Second Seasons and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Third & Fourth Seasons 2-Season Gift Sets
By John Corrado After becoming a smash hit at the box office throughout the holiday season, Illumination’s surprisingly great animated Dr. Seuss adaptation The Grinch is being released on Blu-ray this week. I really enjoyed this one when I first saw it at a screening back in November, and it’s actually grown on me quite a… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Grinch
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Elliot (Josh Hutcherson) is a miniature horse who has always dreamed of flying with the reindeer, and when Blitzen (Martin Short) announces his retirement right before Christmas, leaving Santa (George Buza) scrambling to find a replacement to fill his spot on the sleigh team, he sees an opportunity… Read More DVD Review: Elliot the Littlest Reindeer
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on a true story from World War I, Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero is a charming animated film that recounts the tale of the first dog to ever be given the rank of Sergeant by the United States Army, and the most decorated pooch in American history. Stubby… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Migo (Channing Tatum) is a yeti who lives in a complex Bigfoot community atop a mountain in the Himalayas, where they are raised to believe that their world is being held up on the backs of giant mammoths and there is nothing below the clouds. Migo’s father (Danny… Read More Blu-ray Review: Smallfoot
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Six years after the release of Wreck-It Ralph in 2012, the video game characters return for a new adventure in Ralph Breaks the Internet. This time around, best friends Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope Von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman) venture into the world wide web, and the results are… Read More Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Taking place on the day of a commemorative fireworks display in Japan, the anime film Fireworks follows teenaged friends Norimichi (Masaki Suda) and Yusuke (Mamoru Miyano), who both harbour crushes on their high school classmate Nazuna (Suzu Hirose). With her mother about to remarry and move away from their countryside home,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fireworks
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