By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on his stage play of the same name, writer and director Drew Hayden Taylor’s engaging and informative documentary Cottagers & Indians, which premieres tonight on CBC, explores the fierce battle that is raging in the Kawartha Lakes between a group of mostly white cottagers and members of Curve… Read More Review: Cottagers & Indians
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) I first discovered the Cartoon Network series We Bare Bears last summer when I came across an episode entitled Shush Ninjas in which the show’s three protagonists, a trio of adoptive bear brothers named Grizz (Eric Edelstein), Panda (Bobby Moynihan) and Ice Bear (Demetri Martin), go to a movie… Read More Review: We Bare Bears: The Movie
By John Corrado It’s SpongeBob’s birthday and we’re all invited to the party in the 2019 special SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout, which is being released on DVD today in a new compilation entitled SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash. The main attraction of this release is the extended episode SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout, which finds Patrick… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash
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 Created by the late Stephen Hillenburg, the talking yellow sea sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants first made his debut on TV in 1999, and the wildly popular cartoon is still going strong over twenty years later. Now the complete eleventh season of the show is being released on DVD this week, in a… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Eleventh Season
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 It was a hit on Netflix, and now director Mike Flanagan’s ten-part dramatic horror series The Haunting of Hill House is available to own on Blu-ray in a 3-disc set that includes extended versions of several episodes. The series follows the Crain family, jumping back and forth between past and present to… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Haunting of Hill House
By John Corrado The Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants has been on the air since 1999, and it’s still going strong after twenty years. While the show is currently in its twelfth season on TV, the complete tenth season of the series has just been released on DVD this week. Spread over two discs, SpongeBob… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Tenth Season
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing a new Blu-ray set that includes both Avatar: The Last Airbender and the followup series The Legend of Korra, bringing together two of the most popular and widely acclaimed animated shows of this generation in one gigantic collection. Running for three seasons between 2005 and 2008 on… Read More Blu-ray Review: Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra – The Complete Blu-ray Collection
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 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 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 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
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