By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The latest quasi-experimental genre-bender from Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and co-directors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, Rumours is a mix of bizarre fever dream and political satire that pits the… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Rumours (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado Following a SteelBook Blu-ray release back in February, Paramount Home Entertainment is now releasing the 1992 comedy Wayne’s World for the first time on 4K Ultra HD in honour of the film’s 30th anniversary. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey star as Wayne and Garth, slacker hosts of the public-access TV show Wayne’s… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Wayne’s World: 30th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado To mark the film’s 45th anniversary this year, Paramount is releasing the classic Saturday Night Fever for the first time in 4K Ultra HD. Directed by John Badham, the 1977 film stars John Travolta in an Oscar-nominated role as Tony Manero, a working class Italian-American kid from Brooklyn who blows what money… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Saturday Night Fever: 45-Year Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and Universal Pictures Home Entertaining is releasing a new Blu-ray edition of the film in honour of this milestone. I first saw E.T. as a nine-year-old kid in 2002, when the film was released on DVD for the first time… Read More Blu-ray Review: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: 40th Anniversary Edition
By John Corrado Following the release of The Godfather Trilogy in 4K Ultra HD earlier this year, Paramount is now releasing standalone editions of Francis Ford Coppola’s three films in 4K, with both regular and SteelBook packaging. The version of The Godfather Part III being released on its own isn’t the theatrical cut of Coppola’s… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado Following the release of The Godfather Trilogy in 4K Ultra HD earlier this year, Paramount is now releasing standalone editions of Francis Ford Coppola’s three films in 4K, with both regular and SteelBook packaging. Coppola’s operatic 1974 sequel is widely heralded as one of the greatest ever made, serving as both a… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Godfather Part II (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado Following the release of The Godfather Trilogy in 4K Ultra HD earlier this year, Paramount is now releasing standalone editions of Francis Ford Coppola’s three films in 4K, with both regular and SteelBook packaging. Coppola’s Oscar-winning 1972 adaption of Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather, charting the rise to power of son Michael… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Godfather (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado In 1987, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello reunited for Back to the Beach, a lighthearted and surprisingly enjoyable tribute to the “beach movies” that made them teen idols over two decades earlier in the 1960s. The film, which Paramount recently released for the first time on Blu-ray, finds Avalon and Funicello playing… Read More Blu-ray Review: Back to the Beach (1987)
By John Corrado Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing The First Wives Club for the first time on Blu-ray this week, a 1996 comedy that has gained a following over the years. The film follows Annie (Diane Keaton), Elise (Goldie Hawn) and Brenda (Bette Midler), three former college friends who decide to get back at their… Read More Blu-ray Review: The First Wives Club (1996)
By John Corrado In honour of the film’s 30th anniversary this year, Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing the hit 1992 Eddie Murphy romantic comedy Boomerang for the first time on Blu-ray this week. Murphy stars in the film as Marcus Graham, a successful advertising executive and notorious womanizer in New York City with obscenely high… Read More Blu-ray Review: Boomerang (1992)
By John Corrado There are few films as synonymous with the adventure movie genre as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg’s 1981 film that first introduced audiences to Harrison Ford’s archeologist Indiana Jones and spawned three sequels (with a fourth on the way next year). Following the release of the complete collection in 4K… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Raiders of the Lost Ark (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables, the director’s 1987 film adaptation of the classic TV series, is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. In honour of the occasion, Paramount has released the film for the first time on 4K Ultra HD, in both regular and SteelBook editions. De Palma’s film is set during… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Untouchables: 35th Anniversary (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado Released in theatres on March 24th, 1972, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is one of the most acclaimed American movies ever made. The film is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and Paramount is honouring this milestone by releasing The Godfather Trilogy in 4K Ultra HD for the first time ever. The… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Godfather Trilogy: 50th Anniversary
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III has always had somewhat of a reputation as the black sheep of the trilogy. Released on Christmas Day in 1990, nearly two decades after the first film in 1972 and sixteen years after the second one in 1974, the film has… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
By John Corrado Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 drama The Godfather, charting the rise to power of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) within the ranks of an Italian-American mafia family under the tutelage of patriarch Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), and its 1974 followup The Godfather Part II, which served as both sequel and prequel to the saga, are widely… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Godfather Trilogy: Corleone Legacy Edition
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