By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When you hear the basic outline for the plot of Pig, and that it stars Nicholas Cage as a lonesome truffle hunter living in the woods who has his beloved pig stolen, you would be forgiven for assuming that it was another one of Cage’s gonzo action roles,… Read More Review: Pig
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Filmmaker Joshua Zemen sets out in search of the “52 Hertz Whale” in his documentary The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52, which follows Zemen and a team of marine biologists as they try to track the elusive whale’s signal across the Pacific Ocean. Because this specific creature… Read More VOD Review: The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
By John Corrado Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s coming of age rock dramedy Almost Famous is 21 years old this year, and Paramount is marking the occasion by revisiting the film with a new 4K Ultra HD remaster, that comes in a limited edition Steelbook package. Based on Crowe’s own experience as a teenage writer, Almost Famous… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Almost Famous (Steelbook Edition)
By John Corrado Last month, Paramount Home Entertainment released new standalone editions of the three John Hughes classics Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful on Blu-ray, with collectible, limited edition Steelbook packaging. In terms of actual content, these are the same discs that were included in the John Hughes… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful Steelbook Editions
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Shot in black-and-white and entirely free of dialogue, Russian filmmaker Viktor Kosakovskiy’s documentary Gunda is an often hypnotic piece of experiential cinema that captures the day to day lives of a group of farm animals. The film, which boasts actor and noted animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix as an… Read More VOD Review: Gunda
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Captain Ramadan is training the next generation of female weightlifters in Egypt, with his outdoor facility surrounded by chain link fencing on a street corner in the port city of Alexandria providing both a training ground and safe haven for girls who want to get into the sport.… Read More Review: Lift Like a Girl
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Over a decade after her big screen debut in Iron Man 2, Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) has finally gotten her own long-awaited solo film in Black Widow, the latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And the film is indeed long-awaited by fans, especially after having its initial… Read More Disney+ Review: Black Widow
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Twenty years after the release of Monsters, Inc., which already got an official prequel in 2013 with Monsters University, we are now getting a spinoff and continuation of that Pixar classic in the form of the new Disney+ series Monsters at Work. The ten-episode series is set in… Read More Disney+ Review: Monsters at Work (First Two Episodes)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) “Y’all wanna year a story about how me and this bitch fell out? It’s kind of long, but full of suspense.” This was the first post from Twitter user A’Ziah “Zola” King in a 148-tweet thread posted in 2015, detailing a wild weekend road trip that she took… Read More Review: Zola
By John Corrado Steven Spielberg’s classic adventure movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, which introduced audiences to the bullwhip-cracking, fedora-wearing archeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), was released exactly forty years ago this month on June 12th, 1981. To celebrate this milestone, Paramount has released all four films in the Indiana Jones franchise in a new… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Indiana Jones 4-Movie Collection
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
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