By John Corrado Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) is a restless teenager in the South Pacific who wants to follow in the footsteps of her explorer ancestors.  When the crops on their island start to die due to an ancient curse, she sets out on an ocean journey in search of demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson), in order to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Moana

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on those classic dolls with the big hair that originated in the 1960s, DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls is a film that has enough genuine charm to work on its own terms as a highly entertaining musical. The Trolls live a blissfully happy existence in a colourful village, with designated… Read More Blu-ray Review: Trolls

By John Corrado As Disney continues to reissue animated classics on Blu-ray, the studio’s timeless 1940 film Pinocchio is the latest addition to their Signature Collection.  Based on an Italian novel, the film tells the story of a wooden marionette named Pinocchio (Dickie Jones) whose lonely creator Geppetto (Christian Rub) dreams of him being a real boy, and has his wish granted… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pinocchio: The Signature Collection

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) “If you must blink, do it now.”  These are the first lines of voiceover heard during the gripping prologue of Kubo and the Two Strings, and they apply perfectly to the film.  You simply don’t want to blink during this visually stunning stop motion adventure, which keeps wowing us with… Read More Blu-ray Review: Kubo and the Two Strings

By John Corrado Arriving thirteen years after the release of the beloved Finding Nemo, Finding Dory focuses on Dory (Ellen Degeneres) as she starts having flashes of remembering her parents, Jenny (Diane Keaton) and Charlie (Eugene Levy).  When she sets off to find them, Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) follow her to the Marine… Read More Blu-ray Review: Finding Dory

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Dreamt up by writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg who wanted to craft a Pixar-style computer animated film for adults, Sausage Party imagines a world where grocery store items are alive, and living under the delusion of entering “The Great Beyond” when they are taken out of the supermarket… Read More Blu-ray Review: Sausage Party

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The fifth film in the popular animated franchise, arriving fourteen years after the still-best original from 2002, Ice Age: Collision Course finds its characters dealing with the various entanglements of romance. Manny (Ray Romano) is trying to keep his marriage to Ellie (Queen Latifah) from getting stale while also having a hard time accepting… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ice Age: Collision Course

By John Corrado Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Disney’s beloved animated classic Beauty and the Beast arrives in a brand new Blu-ray edition, as part of the Walt Disney Signature Collection. Notably the first animated film to ever receive a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, and in my humble opinion it should have… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beauty and the Beast: 25th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado Released in 1969, A Boy Named Charlie Brown marked the big screen debut of Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip characters.  After being humiliated for having his kites get destroyed by the “kite-eating tree,” and experiencing a brutal loss for his team on the baseball diamond, Charlie Brown finds himself competing in a school… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Come Home

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Adapting the popular game to the screen, The Angry Birds Movie centres on Red (Jason Sudeikas), an ornery avian who lives on an island where everyone is supposed to be happy, and is sentenced to anger management classes after having a tantrum.  There, Red meets the hyperactive Chuck (Josh Gad) and the explosive… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Angry Birds Movie

By John Corrado The third film in the popular series, Kung Fu Panda 3 follows Dragon Warrior Po (Jack Black) as he reunites with his birth father (Bryan Cranston), and has to save their panda village from the otherworldly villain Kai (J.K. Simmons). Boasting beautifully rendered animation, and enough heartfelt themes to make it resonate… Read More Blu-ray Release: Kung Fu Panda 3

By John Corrado It’s hard to believe that it has been fifteen years since Shrek was released.  I was a kid when the film came out in 2001, and my first experience with it was on a VHS tape.  Now things have come full circle with a brand new Blu-ray to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of this… Read More Blu-ray Release: Shrek: Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado My favourite movie of the year so far, Zootopia takes place in a seemingly utopic mammal metropolis where animals start mysteriously going missing, forcing newly recruited bunny police officer Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) to work with the smooth con artist fox Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) to solve the case, uncovering deep rooted fear… Read More Blu-ray Release: Zootopia