By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Written and directed by Noah Baumbach, crafting a companion piece of sorts to his acclaimed 2005 breakout film The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story is an incredibly powerful, brilliantly written and extremely well acted film that is both believable and incisive in its wrenching portrait of a… Read More Review: Marriage Story
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The third film from director Trey Edward Shultz, following up his acclaimed debut Krisha and his divisive horror film It Comes at Night, Waves is an electric piece of filmmaking that is frequently bold and audacious in its stylistic choices. Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is an all-American teenager who has the façade of… Read More Review: Waves
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) It’s a little hard to believe that six years have passed since Disney released Frozen into the world. When that film was coming out back in 2013, I don’t know if anyone really predicted that it would permeate the pop cultural landscape in the way that it did,… Read More Review: Frozen II
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Joseph Heller’s seminal 1961 novel Catch-22 is a classic satire about the futility of war and the cascading reactions from one man’s attempts to get out of battle. It was already adapted for the big screen in 1971, and now we have a small screen adaptation in the form… Read More DVD Review: Catch-22
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) I don’t think anyone was asking for a winking, self-aware teenaged Dora the Explorer movie in the year 2019. I know I certainly wasn’t. But now we have one, and I’m pleased to report that it’s actually, somewhat surprisingly, not bad. It’s a thoroughly harmless live action adventure movie… Read More Blu-ray Review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) South Korea has proven to be a bit of a powerhouse in recent years when it comes to producing unique genre mashups, with the most prominent example of this obviously being the films of Bong-Joon Ho. Now we have The Divine Fury, a slick hybrid of exorcist film… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Divine Fury
By John Corrado It’s already one of my favourite movies of the year, and now Warner Bros. is releasing the Sundance hit Blinded by the Light on Blu-ray this week. The film follows Javed (Viveik Kalra), a British-Pakistani teenager in the 1980s who finds himself through the music of Bruce Springsteen, with the American rocker’s lyrics about… Read More Blu-ray Review: Blinded by the Light
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by James Mangold, following up his dark and brilliant X-Men spinoff Logan, Ford v Ferrari is a solid piece of mainstream entertainment that feels muscular in its construction. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the friendship between Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), a race car… Read More Review: Ford v Ferrari
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A pint-sized Superbad that sets the action in middle school instead of high school, Good Boys is an enjoyable comedy from producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that features potty-mouthed pre-teens as its stars. The film follows Max (Jacob Tremblay), Thor (Brady Noon) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams),… Read More Blu-ray Review: Good Boys
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Despite receiving mixed reviews upon its release in 1980, and famously being disavowed by Stephen King himself who felt that it wasn’t an accurate adaptation of his book, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is now rightfully regarded as one of the greatest horror films of all time and is… Read More Review: Doctor Sleep
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A spinoff to the blockbuster franchise, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw brings together best frenemies Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) for a mission, when both men are recruited to track down a rogue MI6 agent named Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), who is in… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Set in the 1950s in New York City, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a private detective with Tourette syndrome. He twitches and tics, his mind obsessing over certain phrases and making him repeat them, only getting reprieve from this when he self-medicates with marijuana and other… Read More Review: Motherless Brooklyn
By John Corrado It was a hit on Netflix, and now director Mike Flanagan’s ten-part dramatic horror series The Haunting of Hill House is available to own on Blu-ray in a 3-disc set that includes extended versions of several episodes. The series follows the Crain family, jumping back and forth between past and present to… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Haunting of Hill House
By John Corrado In honour of its 20th anniversary this year, Paramount has released a new steelbook edition of the 1999 science fiction comedy Galaxy Quest on Blu-ray. Dubbed the Never Give Up, Never Surrender Edition, this is a fairly irresistible release for fans of the cult classic film. Directed by Dean Parisot, (who is… Read More Blu-ray Review: Galaxy Quest: Collector’s Edition Steelbook
By John Corrado There has been a lot of talk about the racially charged drama Luce since it premiered at Sundance at the beginning of the year, and it’s now available on DVD as of today. The film follows a high school student named Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), an Eritrean immigrant who is the adoptive son… Read More DVD Review: Luce
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Satire is a tricky thing to properly pull off, but New Zealand actor and filmmaker Taika Waititi mostly succeeds in his latest film Jojo Rabbit, an original and daring World War II satire that is equal parts funny and moving. The film had its world premiere at the… Read More Review: Jojo Rabbit
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The latest from master filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory is a beautiful work filled with colour and emotion that is carried by a powerful, career-defining performance from Antonio Banderas, who won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his role. The story centres around an aging filmmaker… Read More Review: Pain and Glory
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, Western Stars, which was released earlier this year, is an introspective, often bittersweet concept album of sorts that tells the story of a fading Western movie star, and finds the iconic American rocker branching out to country music and performing with a thirty piece… Read More Review: Western Stars
By John Corrado It’s already made over a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and currently ranks as the second highest grossing movie of the year after Avengers: Endgame. Now Disney’s remake of The Lion King is available to own on Blu-ray as of this week. While I did enjoy this updated retelling of… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Lion King (2019)
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Director Bong Joon-ho’s first film in Korean following his two English-language movies Snowpiercer and Okja, Parasite made history earlier this year when it took home the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes, becoming the first film from South Korea to win the award. And now that I’ve seen the film, I can… Read More Review: Parasite
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