By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Wes Anderson has developed one of the most unique styles of any modern American filmmaker across his rich body of work, and his 11th feature, Asteroid City, offers perhaps his most metatextual narrative yet. And it’s his best since The Grand Budapest Hotel. Through Anderson’s playfully subversive storytelling… Read More Review: Asteroid City
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out in 2018, it really felt like the film was pushing the boundaries for big screen animation, mimicking the look of a comic book with its inventive and highly stylized mix of 2D and 3D animation. Now we have Spider-Man: Across the… Read More Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
By John Corrado With the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds having just premiered on Paramount+, Paramount recently released Season One of the original series on 4K Ultra HD, including in a limited edition SteelBook set. Led by a diverse cast that includes a mix of new and pre-established characters (including cast members… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season One (Limited Edition SteelBook)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 16th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Elemental (Wide Release): Pixar’s latest film, which comes from director Pete Sohn, works as a charming mix of immigrant tale and forbidden love romantic comedy. Set in a place called Element City, the film is an unlikely love story between fire… Read More New This Week (06/16/2023): Elemental, The Flash, The Blackening, & More!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Marvel Comics legend Stan “The Man” Lee gets the documentary biopic treatment in Stan Lee, an officially sanctioned project that is premiering on Disney Plus. Born Stanley Martin Lieber, and coming of age during the Great Depression in New York City, the film charts how he got his… Read More Review: Stan Lee (Disney+)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Elemental is the latest film from Pixar (their 27th feature), and it could also be described as the studio’s first romantic comedy. Set against the imaginative backdrop of a place called Element City, where air, fire, water and earth residents live, the film works as a charming mix… Read More Review: Elemental
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest film written and directed by Zach Braff (Garden State, Wish You Were Here), A Good Person is an addiction drama that follows Allison (Florence Pugh), a young woman who becomes hooked on painkillers following a car accident. The film opens with Allison excited to marry her… Read More Blu-ray Review: A Good Person
By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 9th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Past Lives (Limited Release): Celine Song’s remarkable directorial debut is opening in theatres this week after premiering to raves at Sundance, and it lives up to the hype. The story of two people, Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo),… Read More New This Week (06/09/2023): Past Lives, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, & More!
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is the seventh film in the big screen Transformers franchise, serving as both a prequel and soft reboot of sorts to the five Michael Bay movies, and it’s one of the more watchable entries in the series, at least. While it doesn’t exactly… Read More Review: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Past Lives, the gorgeous directorial debut of playwright Celine Song, opens with its trio of main characters Nora (Greta Lee), Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) and Arthur (John Magaro) sitting together at a bar, as an off-screen voice wonders what their connections are to each other. From here, Song’s… Read More Review: Past Lives
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) A followup to the 2019 DCEU superhero film Shazam!, Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a prime example of a sequel that feels bigger and broader in scope, while also offering greatly diminished returns. David F. Sandberg returns to direct this sequel, but a lot of the genuine… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Creed III is the ninth entry overall in the iconic Rocky franchise, as well as the third film in the modern spin-off series focused on Apollo Creed’s son Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), and it mostly follows a well-worn formula. Directed by Jordan, making his behind-the-camera debut, the film… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Creed III
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival runs from May 25th to June 4th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Set in 1987, Before I Change My Mind follows Robin (Vaughan Murrae) a gender non-conforming kid who has moved to Alberta from… Read More #InsideOut2023 Review: Before I Change My Mind
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival runs from May 25th to June 4th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The Canadian coming-of-age drama Golden Delicious centres around Jake (Cardi Wong), a Chinese-Canadian teenager in his last year of high school in… Read More #InsideOut2023 Review: Golden Delicious
By John Corrado New releases for the week of June 2nd, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Wide Release): The highly anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider-Verse has been drawing universal praise from those who’ve already seen it. I’ve heard it even exceeds the first… Read More New This Week (06/02/2023): Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Bones of Crows, & More!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Written and directed by Marie Clements, Bones of Crows is an ambitious Canadian drama that follows the life of a residential school survivor over many years, and the scars that remain from the trauma that she has experienced. The film spans multiple decades in the life of Aline… Read More Review: Bones of Crows
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival runs from May 25th to June 4th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The Spanish coming of age drama 20,000 Species of Bees, which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, is… Read More #InsideOut2023 Review: 20,000 Species of Bees
By John Corrado This week, Paramount Home Entertaining is releasing all six Transformers movies (the five Michael Bay flicks as well as the Bumblebee spinoff) on 4K Ultra HD in a limited edition SteelBook collection. The six films included in the set are Bay’s Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Transformers: Dark of… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Transformers: 6-Movie SteelBook Collection
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the movie based on the classic fantasy role-playing game, is being released… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Since Bruce Willis has announced his retirement from acting due to his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, the film Assassin serves as his final role. As such, the movie is being sold under his name, but Willis is merely a supporting player in the sci-fi flick, which offers a… Read More DVD Review: Assassin
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