By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Liam Neeson has made such a career out of playing grizzled older men who are forced to become action heroes in extreme situations that you can practically copy and paste his name into any high stakes premise and have yourself a pretty bankable thriller. Earlier this year, we… Read More VOD Review: The Ice Road
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Wolfgang Puck is credited as being the first “celebrity” chef, a title that he obtained by attracting a dedicated guest list of Hollywood stars to his restaurant Spago, before gaining a broader following through charming TV appearances, and building a food empire around frozen pizzas. Puck’s story is… Read More Disney+ Review: Wolfgang
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is a nobody. The title card of Nobody literally introduces him as such. He is a middle-aged man who gets up at the same time every day to take the bus to work at a factory, and once a week ends up just missing… Read More Blu-ray Review: Nobody
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Enrico Casarosa, the director behind Pixar’s wonderful new feature Luca, has cited the works of Hayao Miyazaki and the Japanese animated films of Studio Ghibli as sources of inspiration for his Italy-set film. While this might seem like an odd thing to say, since Pixar has its own… Read More Disney+ Review: Luca
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A movie called Godzilla vs. Kong basically only needs to deliver one thing, and that is scenes of two classic movie monsters punching and kicking each other. Thankfully, Godzilla vs. Kong, which serves as the culmination of Warner Bros. and Legendary’s so-called MonsterVerse, delivers on this promise. The… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Godzilla vs. Kong
By John Corrado On June 1st, Paramount reissued the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its 2003 sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life on 4K Ultra HD, together for the first time in a new 2-movie collection. Starring Angelina Jolie in the title role and adapted from the video game of… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2-Movie Collection
By John Corrado This is a review of the DVD release. For my full thoughts on the film itself, including my star rating, please read my original review right here. On June 1st, Focus Features’ coming of age sports drama Boogie was released on DVD and Blu-ray. The film, which serves as the feature directorial… Read More DVD Review: Boogie
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Jeremiasz August (Tomasz Kot) is a prominent Polish architect who is on his way to catch a flight in Paris following a speech at a conference, when a young Dutch woman, who reveals herself to be named Texel Textor (Athena Strates), knocks on his car window in the… Read More VOD Review: A Perfect Enemy
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Lin-Manuel Miranda became a household name by giving American history a hip-hop makeover in his Broadway sensation Hamilton. But, before creating a genuine cultural phenomenon with that historical musical, Miranda made his Broadway debut with In the Heights, a good-natured tribute to the mostly Latino denizens of New… Read More Review: In the Heights
By John Corrado Fresh off of winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, 20th Century Studios is releasing Chloé Zhao’s masterful road movie Nomadland on Blu-ray and Digital today. The film, which also got Zhao her first Oscar for Best Director and Frances McDormand her third Oscar for Best Actress, is one that I have… Read More Nomadland is Now Available on Blu-ray and Digital
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2021 Inside Out Film Festival is running virtually from May 27th to June 6th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Ontario The music documentary Alone Together, which screened virtually last night as the closing night film of Inside Out, takes us behind the scenes… Read More #InsideOut21 Review: Alone Together
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Inside Out Film Festival is running virtually from May 27th to June 6th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Ontario The narrative feature debut of documentary filmmaker Heidi Ewing, I Carry You With Me is an often poignant immigrant drama that offers a… Read More #InsideOut21 Review: I Carry You With Me
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2021 Inside Out Film Festival is running virtually from May 27th to June 6th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Ontario Directed by Carlos López Estrada, Summertime is a sprawling, at times inspiring film that follows a wide-ranging mix of young people over a… Read More #InsideOut21 Review: Summertime
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Inside Out Film Festival is running virtually from May 27th to June 6th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Ontario Over a decade after their breakup in college, Kris (Pooya Mohseni) and Naomi (Lynn Chen) decide to meet up for dinner, the first… Read More #InsideOut21 Review: See You Then
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2021 Inside Out Film Festival is running virtually from May 27th to June 6th, all films are available to stream for audiences across Ontario Set against the luscious backdrop of the South of France, writer-director Marion Hill’s sensual debut feature Ma Belle, My Beauty explores the aftermath… Read More #InsideOut21 Review: Ma Belle, My Beauty
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Disney’s latest live action film to be based on one of their classic animated properties, Cruella is the weirdest and most unique of the studio’s recent remakes, which is to say that it’s also one of their best. After a string of fine but needless retreads like Aladdin,… Read More Disney+ Review: Cruella
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A Canadian animated film from the Quebec company 10th Ave Productions, Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa is an enjoyable family adventure movie set in the Magdalen Islands. The film follows a 12-year-old boy named Felix (Daniel Brochu), who believes that his fisherman father, who disappeared at sea… Read More VOD Review: Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The opening scene of Wrath of Man, the latest action film from director Guy Ritchie, feels like somewhat of a departure for the usually hyper-stylized filmmaker. The tense, deliberately paced sequence follows a pair of security guards having their cash truck violently hijacked by armed, masked assailants. But… Read More VOD Review: Wrath of Man
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Following their animated Scooby-Doo movie Scoob! from last year, Warner Bros. continues trying to revive classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters with mixed results in Tom & Jerry, a hybrid of live action and animation that brings the constantly fighting cat and mouse back to the screen. But, instead of… Read More Blu-ray Review: Tom & Jerry
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, the director’s new zombie heist movie that is premiering on Netflix this weekend, is the sort of genre film that is made by a filmmaker with confidence in his style. And, after Zack Snyder’s Justice League, aka the fabled Snyder Cut, was… Read More Netflix Review: Army of the Dead
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