By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) John Green’s debut novel Looking for Alaska, first published in 2005, is a modern classic that would easily deserve a spot on a list of the greatest young adult novels of all time. That’s high praise, I know, (especially from me, a self-avowed fan of YA literature), but… Read More DVD Review: Looking for Alaska

By John Corrado After delivering the comedy classic Airplane! in 1980, directors David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams reunited with one of the stars of that film – the late, great Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen – and brought their talents to the small screen for the tragically short-lived ABC television series Police Squad! in 1982. An… Read More Blu-ray Review: Police Squad!: The Complete Series

By John Corrado Hosted by comedian turned new horror master Jordan Peele, The Twilight Zone is a CBS All Access Original Series that serves as a reimagining of Rod Serling’s original 1959 sci-fi and fantasy show, updating the storytelling for more modern sensibilities and anxieties. Season One is made up of ten episodes, all of… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Twilight Zone (2019): Season One

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Joseph Heller’s seminal 1961 novel Catch-22 is a classic satire about the futility of war and the cascading reactions from one man’s attempts to get out of battle. It was already adapted for the big screen in 1971, and now we have a small screen adaptation in the form… Read More DVD Review: Catch-22

By John Corrado Originally airing in 1978 on NBC, the mini-series Holocaust is now available for the first time on Blu-ray in a new 2-disc set from Paramount. The series follows a fictional Jewish family throughout the 1930s and 1940s, unfolding over roughly a decade as the Nazis seize power in Europe. The Weiss family is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Holocaust

By John Corrado Originally airing over four nights on ABC back in 1994, the mini-series The Stand has now received a new Collector’s Edition Blu-ray release from Paramount to mark it’s 25th anniversary. Adapted from Stephen King’s mammoth 1978 bestseller, which is one of his longest books at over eight hundred pages, the series unfolds… Read More Blu-ray Review: Stephen King’s The Stand: Collector’s Edition

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Directed by Ben Stiller, the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora dramatizes the real life escape of two prisoners from the Clinton Correctional Facility in the small town of Dannemora, New York near the Canadian border in 2015. The series follows inmates Richard Matt (Benicio Del Toro) and David… Read More DVD Review: Escape at Dannemora

By John Corrado Last month, HBO released the complete second season of The Deuce on Blu-ray. Created by George Pelecanos and David Simon, the series offers a gritty look at the rise of the porn industry in New York in the 1970s, set against the backdrop of the ongoing women’s rights, gay rights and sexual liberation… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Deuce: The Complete Second Season

By John Corrado Who drew the dicks? That’s the question at the centre of the Netflix series American Vandal, the first season of which was released on DVD last week from Paramount. Created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, American Vandal unfolds in a mockumentary style that parodies popular true crime series like Serial and Making a… Read More DVD Review: American Vandal: Season One

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 Before this long awaited third season of the 1990s pop culture phenomenon Twin Peaks premiered on Showtime earlier this year, channel president David Nevins promised us that it would be the “pure heroin vision of David Lynch,” and for better or for worse this is exactly what we get. Picking up exactly… Read More Blu-ray Review: Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series

By John Corrado Every episode of the Canadian comedy series Letterkenny opens with a title card telling us that the fictitious Ontario town that gives the show its title has a scant population of five thousand residents, and “these are their problems.” The show follows Wayne (Jared Keeso), his younger sister Katy (Michele Mylett), and his… Read More DVD Review: Letterkenny: Season 1