By John Corrado This year marks the 55th anniversary of the classic 1963 comedy The Nutty Professor, and in honour of this occasion, Paramount is releasing it as part of the Jerry Lewis: 10 Film Collection, a DVD set that comes highly recommended for fans of his work. The set features a solid selection of… Read More DVD Review: Jerry Lewis: 10 Film Collection
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Morgan Neville, following his Oscar-winning 20 Feet from Stardom and the excellent Best of Enemies, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? looks at the life and career of Fred Rogers, the unlikely star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. With his soft voice and gentle way of speaking, Fred Rogers had a true knack for… Read More Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Focusing on the 2015 trial of Oskar Gröning, a former SS guard who served as a bookkeeper at Auschwitz and was put on trial in Germany at 94 years old for his involvement in the Holocaust, The Accountant of Auschwitz is a fascinating and multilayered documentary. Facing charges for the murder of… Read More Review: The Accountant of Auschwitz
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The first thing we see onscreen in Hereditary is a newspaper obituary for the elderly matriarch of the Graham family, telling us she is survived by her daughter Annie (Toni Collete), son-in-law Steve (Gabriel Byrne), and grandchildren Peter (Alex Wolff) and Charlie (Milly Shapiro). This nicely sets the tone for… Read More Review: Hereditary
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) is a Nigerian immigrant working for a pharmaceutical company in Chicago. But when things go wrong on a routine trip to Mexico to visit their supplier, he ends up in way over his head. This is the basic set-up for Gringo, which plays like… Read More Blu-ray Review: Gringo
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura’s popular graphic novel of the same name, I Kill Giants is the story of Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe), a teenaged outsider who escapes from relentless bullying at school and problems at home by immersing herself in an elaborate fantasy world. Barbara… Read More Blu-ray Review: I Kill Giants
By John Corrado The latest addition to Disney’s Signature Collection is their 1953 animated classic Peter Pan, which also happens to be celebrating it’s 65th anniversary this year. A spirited take on J.M. Barrie’s classic novel and stage play, which Walt Disney savvily acquired the rights to in 1938 with the full intention of turning… Read More Blu-ray Review: Peter Pan: The Signature Collection
By John Corrado Based on Madeline L’Engle’s classic 1962 novel of the same name, which has been brought to the screen by director Ava DuVernay, Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry (Storm Reid), an adolescent girl who has to travel across the universe in order to rescue her physicist father (Chris Pine). Although it didn’t… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Wrinkle in Time
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) To watch First Reformed is to wrestle with the same questions that are plaguing the main character Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke), a tormented priest who is going through a profound crisis of faith, as he struggles to reconcile himself to the fact that human beings are desecrating the… Read More Review: First Reformed
By John Corrado One of the more interesting films to come out so far this year, Alex Garland’s Annihilation is being released on Blu-ray today. The film follows Lena (Natalie Portman), an ex-soldier turned biology professor who, after her husband (Oscar Isaac) returns permanently changed, goes to explore a strange phenomenon called The Shimmer, a quarantined area… Read More Blu-ray Review: Annihilation
By John Corrado After winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film a few months back, Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman is now available on Blu-ray. The Chilean drama follows Marina (Daniela Vega), a transwoman who struggles to grieve when her older lover Orlando (Francisco Reyes) drops dead and his family doesn’t want her to attend… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Fantastic Woman
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Based on Ian McEwan’s bestselling novella, which the author himself adapted into a screenplay, and beautifully brought to the screen by first time director Dominic Cooke, On Chesil Beach is a classic romantic drama that engages simply because of the strength of its characters and storytelling. The year is 1962,… Read More Review: On Chesil Beach
Solo: A Star Wars Story Review By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest entry into Disney’s rapidly expanding Star Wars universe, Solo: A Star Wars Story is a prequel to the original film that seeks to explore the origins of everyone’s favourite scoundrel and rogue pilot Han Solo, and does so with fairly… Read More Three Views: Solo: A Star Wars Story
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest from director Clint Eastwood, The 15:17 to Paris recounts the true story of how Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler fearlessly stopped Ayoub El Khazzani (Ray Corasani), who was armed with guns, knives and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, from carrying out a terrorist attack onboard a train… Read More Blu-ray Review: The 15:17 to Paris
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) are a naturally competitive married couple who host a weekly game night at their house with a group of friends. Then Max’s hotshot brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) comes over and decides to kick things up a notch by taking game night… Read More Blu-ray Review: Game Night
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Beatrix Potter’s beloved woodland creatures get their first big screen outing in Peter Rabbit, a modern take on the story of the mischievous bunny in a blue coat, who’s trying to outwit a farmer to steal the vegetables from his field. This version of the story begins with… Read More Blu-ray Review: Peter Rabbit
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Set in 1906 at the Winchester Mystery House, a sprawling mansion that took decades to build and is situated outside of San Francisco, Winchester follows a psychiatrist by the name of Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke), who goes to the house to evaluate the mental well-being of Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren).… Read More Blu-ray Review: Winchester
By John Corrado Since its February release, Black Panther has easily cemented itself as a legitimate pop cultural phenomenon, receiving rave reviews and becoming one of the biggest hits of all time at the box office, and it’s easy to see why. It’s an exciting and very well made blockbuster that injects fresh blood into… Read More Blu-ray Review: Black Panther
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on the life of classic film star Gloria Grahame, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool recounts the love affair that Grahame (Annette Bening) had with young actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell) in the twilight of her career and near the end of her life. The film takes place… Read More DVD Review: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Set in 1892, Hostiles follows army captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale), who is ordered to escort the dying Cheyenne chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) and his family back to their tribal lands in Montana. Along the journey, Blocker’s army is also tasked with protecting the widowed Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund… Read More Blu-ray Review: Hostiles
