By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Little Dixie is a brooding revenge thriller that stars Frank Grillo as Doc Alexander, an ex-Special Forces Operative who has helped broker a truce between corrupt Oklahoma governor Richard Jeffs (Eric Dane) and a Mexican drug cartel. When the deal falls through following the governor’s public celebration of… Read More DVD Review: Little Dixie
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the DVD release of On the Come Up. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review from TIFF right here. After its TIFF premiere and streaming debut in September, the Paramount+ drama On the Come Up is now… Read More DVD Review: On the Come Up
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) As far as self-produced vanity projects go, the inspired-by-a-true-story comedy 80 for Brady, which follows four old ladies who go to the Super Bowl to see their hero Tom Brady play, is a pretty enjoyable one. Produced by Brady, who also gives himself a small role playing himself,… Read More Review: 80 for Brady
By John Corrado It’s been fifteen years since director Matt Reeves and producer J.J. Abrams first unleashed their found footage monster movie Cloverfield in theatres on January 18th, 2008. Paramount is honouring the milestone by re-releasing the film on 4K Ultra HD this week, in a very nice new limited edition SteelBook set. The film… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Cloverfield: 15th Anniversary – Limited Edition SteelBook
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Damien Chazelle’s Babylon feels like the movie you make after narrowly losing the Best Picture Oscar for La La Land; a go-for-broke epic about the early days of Hollywood that suggests you love the movie industry as much as you might hate it. Because as much as Chazelle’s… Read More Review: Babylon
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The surprise box office hit Smile is an original horror movie from writer-director Parker Finn, that mixes the paranoia of It Follows, with the ticking time bomb once-you-see-it-you-die conceit of The Ring, and the dysfunctional family drama mixed with supernatural horror of Hereditary. Despite these obvious influences, Finn’s… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Smile
By John Corrado In honour of its 35th anniversary this year, the 1987 John Hughes classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles is making its 4K Ultra HD debut this week from Paramount, just in time for American Thanksgiving. The film, of course, stars Steve Martin as Neal Page and John Candy as Del Griffith, two men… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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 ★★½ (out of 4) Jerry & Marge Go Large is the vaguely “based on a true story” tale of Jerry Selbee (Bryan Cranston) and his wife Marge (Annette Bening), an older married couple who discover a loophole that lets them win the lottery every three weeks without fail. Jerry has just retired… Read More DVD Review: Jerry & Marge Go Large
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 Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of Top Gun: Maverick. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original theatrical review right here. It’s the biggest movie of the year so far, and now Top Gun: Maverick is arriving on 4K… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Top Gun: Maverick
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Conceived as a loose remake of the classic Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (which originally had the somewhat better title Blazing Samurai) is a gonzo animated film that often boggles the mind over how it even came to be. The result… Read More Blu-ray Review: Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Paramount’s animated film Rumble imagines a world of “monster wrestling,” where giant creatures fight each other for entertainment with the help of human trainers, and each city has their own massive kaiju to represent them. The most famous of these trainers was the late Jimbo Coyle (Carlos Gómez),… Read More Blu-ray Review: Rumble
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 Paramount is releasing the 1953 adaptation of The War of the Worlds for the first time on 4K Ultra HD this week, in a set that also includes the 1951 film When Worlds Collide on Blu-ray. The two sci-fi films were both produced by George Pal, and present a compelling double feature.… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The War of the Worlds (1953) and When Worlds Collide (1951)
By John Corrado Paramount is releasing a new edition of the 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls on Blu-ray today. Dubbed the “So Fetch! Limited Edition,” this new release features SteelBook packaging tied to the film. With a screenplay by Tina Fey, the film itself is a wicked sharp satire of high school politics that unfolds around… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mean Girls (SteelBook Edition)
By John Corrado In addition to Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection being released this week, Paramount is also releasing two different standalone editions of Robert Wise’s original 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture to mark the anniversary of when Star Trek first aired on TV in September 1966. Previously only available as… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition – The Complete Adventure
By John Corrado With September 8th marking the anniversary of when Star Trek first aired on CBS in 1966, Paramount is dipping back into the archives this month with the release of Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection, featuring the first half-dozen films in the franchise in 4K Ultra HD. Starting with director… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection
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