By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing the streaming special South Park: Joining the Panderverse on Blu-ray. The 49 minute animated special from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone skewers everything from “woke” culture, to useless college degrees, multiverse movies, and token diverse characters in Disney reboots. The wide-ranging special, which premiered… Read More Blu-ray Review: South Park: Joining the Panderverse
By John Corrado Made by Sony to capitalize on the success of the MCU, and take advantage of the fact that they still own the Spider-Man rights, Madame Web falls into the Venom or Morbius category of modern comic book movies. The feature directorial debut of S.J. Clarkson, whose previous credits are all in TV,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Madame Web
By John Corrado We’ve all heard of haunted houses, but how about a haunted swimming pool? That’s the premise behind the Blumhouse horror movie Night Swim, which introduces us to the unique concept of a family being terrorized by a cursed pool in their new backyard. The film centres around the Waller family. Ray Waller… Read More Blu-ray Review: Night Swim (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of The Color Purple. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. Director Blitz Bazawule’s glitzy The Color Purple serves as both a big screen version of the Broadway musical, and a reimagining… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Color Purple
By John Corrado The third film in DreamWorks Animation’s popular Trolls franchise, Trolls Band Together explores more of this vibrant animated world, while adding a slew of boyband jokes into the mix. The story revolves around Poppy (Anna Kendrick) discovering that her boyfriend Branch (Justin Timberlake) used to be a member of the boyband BroZone,… Read More Blu-ray Review: Trolls Band Together (Sing-Along Edition)
By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) Positioned as a prequel to the 2019 adaptation of the Stephen King novel Pet Sematary, the Paramount+ original movie Pet Sematary: Bloodlines is an example of a needless franchise expansion that doesn’t do enough with the source material to really justify itself. Set in 1969, the story expands… Read More Blu-ray Review: Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of The Exorcist: Believer. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. David Gordon Green’s legacy sequel The Exorcist: Believer is being released on physical media this week, following a run in theatres… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Exorcist: Believer (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado It’s that time of year. A time for giving gifts and making wish lists. To help with this, I’ve compiled a number of entertainment-themed gift ideas, ranging from a number of 4K and Blu-ray releases to several books (which I’ve personally selected), that would make perfect gifts for the movie lovers and… Read More The Joy of Movies 2023 Christmas Gift Guide
By John Corrado This week, Paramount is releasing Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection on Blu-ray, an individually numbered, limited edition set including every movie and TV series featuring Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard in one very nice box. Limited to 11,750 copies worldwide, this is a truly impressive, 54-disc set that combines all seven… Read More Blu-ray Review: Star Trek: The Picard Legacy Collection
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Strays is an R-rated talking dog comedy that stars Will Ferrell as the voice of a little dog named Reggie, who teams up with a streetwise Boston Terrier named Bug (voiced by Jamie Foxx) to get revenge on his mean owner. More specifically, Reggie plans to get back… Read More Blu-ray Review: Strays (Unleashed Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Barbie. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. After becoming the highest grossing movie of the year in theatres over the summer (including getting a boost from the Barbenheimer phenomenon), Warner… Read More Blu-ray Review: Barbie
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a vampire horror movie that takes place aboard a merchant ship in 1897, and fleshes out the backstory of the doomed voyage carrying Count Dracula. The Demeter is a Russian schooner that is travelling… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The title of Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, the latest film from DreamWorks Animation, tells you basically everything you need to know about the movie; it’s about a 15-year-old girl named Ruby Gillman (voiced by Lana Condor), who, well, happens to be a kraken. Ruby is living on land… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Asteroid City. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. The latest feature from writer-director Wes Anderson – and one of the best movies of the year, so far – Asteroid City… Read More Blu-ray Review: Asteroid City
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Fast X is the tenth entry in the Fast and Furious saga (the eleventh if you count the spin-off film Hobbs & Shaw), and at this point the series has fully embraced its status as offering little more than brainless entertainment fuelled by fast cars and hot stars.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fast X (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Book Club ladies are back in Book Club: The Next Chapter, a sequel to the 2018 film that finds elderly best friends Diane (Diane Keaton), Vivian (Jane Fonda), Sharon (Candice Bergen) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) – who first bonded over reading Fifty Shades of Grey – taking a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Book Club: The Next Chapter (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Renfield is a horror comedy that serves as a modern take on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, only telling the story from the perspective of the vampire’s assistant, Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Hoult). For over a century, Renfield has been the servant to Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage), charged… Read More Blu-ray Review: Renfield (Dracula Sucks Edition)
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 ★★½ (out of 4) In Cocaine Bear, director Elizabeth Banks takes the inspired by a true story premise of a bear in the 1980s who consumed copious amounts of cocaine that had been dumped from a drug runner’s plane, and fashions it into an absurdly gory and intentionally cheesy B-movie creature feature… Read More Blu-ray Review: Cocaine Bear
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Knock at the Cabin. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Knock at the Cabin, is being released on Blu-ray this week. Based on the novel… Read More Blu-ray Review: Knock at the Cabin (Collector’s Edition)
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