By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A survival movie in the most stripped down and literal sense of the term, Arctic centres around Overgård (Mads Mikkelsen), a man who is stranded alone in the middle of the Arctic following a plane crash. We are never explicitly told what transpired, and we don’t know exactly how… Read More Review: Arctic
To celebrate last month’s home entertainment release of the entertaining sequel Goosebumps 2, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has provided us with a copy of the Blu-ray to give away to one lucky Canadian reader! To enter, simply send an email to info@onemoviefiveviews.com with the subject line “Win a Copy of Goosebumps 2 on Blu-ray!”, or you… Read More Contest: Win a Copy of Goosebumps 2 on Blu-ray!
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A followup to the surprisingly good 2015 film Goosebumps, Goosebumps 2 finds a new group of young protagonists accidentally unleashing monsters from author R.L. Stine’s classic series of books. This film is also set at Halloween, and follows Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris), two kids… Read More Blu-ray Review: Goosebumps 2
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing the Netflix film The Cloverfield Paradox on Blu-ray, both on its own and as part of a new 3-movie collection that also includes the 2008 found footage film Cloverfield and the 2016 followup 10 Cloverfield Lane. Famously released on Netflix as a surprise directly following last year’s Super… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Cloverfield Paradox and The Cloverfield 3-Movie Collection
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 The directorial debut of actor Jonah Hill, Mid90s is coming to Blu-ray this week, and it’s one of those small gems that absolutely deserves to find more of an audience at home. Centred around a group of skater kids in the 1990s, this is a funny and touching coming of age film… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mid90s
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 Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which is arriving on Blu-ray today following its holiday release back in November, is one of those films that is often beautiful to look at but also feels sort of empty. It’s not a bad film, but it is a somewhat disappointing one, starting off… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Jonathan (Ansel Elgort) is a young man who seemingly has it all. He’s got a good job at an architectural firm, and a nice apartment. But his life is complicated by the presence of his “brother” John, who happens to share the same body as him through a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Jonathan
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Flynn McGarry, the young subject of the documentary Chef Flynn, taught himself to cook at a very young age through cookbooks and YouTube videos. When he was 11 years old, he turned his family’s living room into a makeshift restaurant, with the help of his mother and his… Read More Review: Chef Flynn
By John Corrado The latest title to get the special edition treatment from Shout Select is Frank Oz’s classic 1988 con man comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring the dream team of Michael Caine and Steve Martin. The film follows Lawrence Jamieson (Caine), a suave English con man who is en route to the fictional town… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is now available on Blu-ray, fresh off receiving Oscar nominations for Visual Effects, Production Design, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing just this morning While I do have some issues with the film’s approach to telling this story, First Man is still an impressive technical achievement,… Read More Blu-ray Review: First Man
By John Corrado Featuring excellent performances from Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet – who really should have gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Felix Van Groeningen’s powerful addiction drama Beautiful Boy is now available on Blu-ray. While Beautiful Boy has garnered some mixed reviews, this is one of those movies that I… Read More Blu-ray Review: Beautiful Boy
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The character of Venom was initially meant to be an adversary to Spider-Man. Now the popular Marvel Comics villain – who was played by Topher Grace in Sam Raimi’s 2007 blockbuster Spider-Man 3 – takes centre stage in the aptly titled Venom, and I’m honestly not exactly sure what to… Read More Blu-ray Review: Venom
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) Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning 2015 film The Big Short was no typical financial drama. The film instead broke the fourth wall and used meta humour and a variety of other stylistic touches to offer a powerful examination of the 2008 economic crisis that was as compelling and informative as… Read More Review: Vice
By John Corrado David Gordon Green’s Halloween, which saw the return of Michael Myers forty years after John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 film, was one of the most anticipated movies of last fall, and it’s now arriving on Blu-ray. Serving as a direct followup to the original, this film finds Michael coming back to Haddonfield, Illinois… Read More Blu-ray Review: Halloween
By John Corrado Another year has come and gone. While 2018 officially ended nearly two weeks ago now, I wouldn’t be able to officially say goodbye to the year without first counting down my picks for the best films that were released within that timeframe. My list of the best documentaries of 2018 already dropped yesterday,… Read More The Best Movies of 2018
By John Corrado We have already officially closed the door on 2018, but before we entirely leave the year in the past, I would be remiss not to highlight the many wonderful films that I saw last year. My list of the best movies of 2018 will be dropping shortly, but first I would like… Read More The Best Documentaries of 2018
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Director Karyn Kusama’s latest film Destroyer opens with rogue LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) waking up in her car, which is parked under an overpass. She appears weary and beaten down – we will find out that she has succumbed to drinking as a way to quell her… Read More Review: Destroyer
