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 ★★½ (out of 4) DC League of Super-Pets is an animated comic book movie about Superman’s best friend; a super-powered dog named Krypto (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) who came to earth with him as a baby from the planet Krypton and continues to be his closest companion. Krypto has settled into a… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: DC League of Super-Pets
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The Munsters is a mix of passion project and glorified fan film from horror filmmaker Rob Zombie, that serves as an uneven but at times mildly amusing reboot of the 1960s sitcom about a monster family living in suburbia. Zombie’s film is a prequel of sorts to the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Munsters (Collector’s 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 ★★★ (out of 4) A housecleaner dreams of owning a Christian Dior gown in the delightful Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, which has to be one of the nicest cinematic surprises of the year. Ada Harris (Lesley Manville) is a war widow who is just making ends meet as a cleaner and… Read More Blu-ray Review: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Black Phone is a Blumhouse-produced thriller that finds director Scott Derrickson reuniting with Ethan Hawke, the star of his 2012 film Sinister (which is still one of the most genuinely disturbing modern horror movies). This time around, Hawke takes on the villainous role of The Grabber, a… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Black Phone (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of Elvis. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original theatrical review right here. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis became one of the biggest box office success stories of the summer when it was released earlier… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Elvis
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
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Minions: The Rise of Gru is a sequel to the 2015 film Minions, which was itself a prequel to the three Despicable Me films, showing the origins of those little yellow guys who speak gibberish and have taken the world by storm. And, five films deep into this… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Minions: The Rise of Gru (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a follow up to the hit 2020 film that brought the iconic SEGA video game character to the big screen, and it does what a sequel should do. It’s a bit bigger in scope, introduces a few new characters, and even leaves things… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
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 ★½ (out of 4) Firestarter is the second adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 novel of the same name, following the 1984 film that starred a young Drew Barrymore. This Blumhouse-produced remake is intended as a modern upgrade, but it’s actually one of the blandest King adaptations, struggling to, well, get any sort… Read More Blu-ray Review: Firestarter (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum team up in the romantic adventure comedy The Lost City, and it’s an example of a film that is actually surprisingly kinda good, simply because it delivers exactly what we want. Bullock’s Loretta Sage is a romance novelist, who has channelled her genuine… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Lost City
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Michael Bay’s Ambulance is a refreshingly back-to-basics film from the director, that sees him stepping away from the increasing tedium of the Transformers franchise to offer a fairly straight forward but entertaining chase movie set on the streets of Los Angeles. The film still features the over the… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ambulance (Collector’s Edition)
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