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
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 ★★★ (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 A Halloween special done in the same stop-motion style as the delightful Christmas special It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! from a few years back, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom is now available on DVD after making its broadcast premiere last year. The story centres around SpongeBob (Tom Kenny), who doesn’t want to be… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) It’s been fourteen years since The Incredibles came out in 2004, and now writer-director Brad Bird has finally given us the sequel that fans have been eagerly anticipating for ages. So was the long wait worth it for Incredibles 2? The answer to that would have to be… Read More Review: Incredibles 2
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A belated sequel to the 2011 film Gnomeo & Juliet, Sherlock Gnomes finds star-crossed lovers Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt) being moved to London, where their owners now share a garden. But when their fellow lawn decorations mysteriously go missing, they must enlist the help of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sherlock Gnomes
