By John Corrado Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, director John Badham’s iconic 1977 classic Saturday Night Fever has now gotten a beautifully restored new Blu-ray edition, which includes both the theatrical version and the slightly longer director’s cut of the film. Tony Manero (John Travolta) is a working class Italian-American teenager in Brooklyn, who works part time… Read More Blu-ray Review: Saturday Night Fever: 40th Anniversary Director’s Cut

By John Corrado Loosely based on a true story, Gold follows Texas prospector Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) who is desperate for a big break and becomes convinced that he can strike gold in the jungles of Indonesia, teaming up with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Remírez) to help him excavate and get their commodity on the stock market. Although the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Gold

By John Corrado Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the 1992 classic A League of Their Own is inspired by the true story of The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was founded by Philip K. Wrigley in 1943 as a way to keep Major League Baseball alive during World War II, when all the best male… Read More Blu-ray Review: A League of Their Own: 25th Anniversary Edition

By John Corrado With human civilization having been all but destroyed by a zombie virus, Melanie (Sennia Nanua) is a young girl who represents the next evolution of the disease and is being kept locked up so that her organs can be harvested to create a cure.  But when their safe military compound comes under… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Girl With All the Gifts

By John Corrado Recounting the true story of how McDonald’s became what it is today, The Founder focuses on the slick salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), who discovered a family burger joint in the 1950s run by brothers Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman), and got them to franchise their business so he could take… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Founder

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Ines Conradi (Sandra Hüller) is a workaholic, who doesn’t really have much time to spend with her practical joking father Winfried (Peter Simonischek) in Germany.  So Winfried travels to Bucharest, where his daughter is working with a consulting firm that is looking at downsizing the amount of workers in the oil field, and… Read More DVD Review: Toni Erdmann

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) After a sleazy small town oil drilling operation accidentally shakes a trio of ancient sea creatures back to the surface from an ecosystem deep underground, the unscrupulous boss (Rob Lowe) convinces his geologist (Thomas Lennon) to keep the discovery hidden.  But one of the tentacled beings ends up finding his… Read More Blu-ray Review: Monster Trucks