By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) After completing his Halloween trilogy last year with the divisive Halloween Ends, director David Gordon Green now sets his sights on rebooting another classic horror property with The Exorcist: Believer, though the results are largely disappointing this time around. Like Green’s 2018 legacy sequel Halloween, The Exorcist: Believer positions… Read More Review: The Exorcist: Believer
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) “Now I become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Taken from Sanskrit, these were the famous words spoken by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer following the test of his atomic bomb in the Los Alamos desert, an invention that would be used to take countless lives when it was… Read More Review: Oppenheimer
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) 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)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Here comes M3GAN, the latest killer doll movie that follows in the footsteps of previous films about murderous toys like Chucky and Annabelle. The difference is that M3GAN (which was produced by James Wan, the driving force behind the Annabelle movies) aims to be more campy than scary.… Read More Blu-ray Review: M3GAN (Unrated Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Women Talking. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, which received a pair of Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, is being released on… Read More Blu-ray Review: Women Talking
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. One of the best surprises of last year, and an enduring hit at the box office,… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) David Harbour stars as a drunk, badass Santa Claus in Violent Night, a Christmas action comedy from Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola (Kill Buljo) that is at it’s best when embracing being a goofy, unabashed B-movie We first meet Harbour’s Santa in a bar on Christmas Eve, taking a… Read More Blu-ray Review: Violent Night (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest film from M. Night Shyamalan, Knock at the Cabin is an adaptation of Paul G. Tremblay’s 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World. Shyamalan has crafted the material into a solid chamber piece thriller that is infused with Biblical allegories, and builds tension… Read More Review: Knock at the Cabin
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the 4K Ultra HD release of The Fabelmans. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review from TIFF right here. My favourite movie of 2022, Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated The Fabelmans is now arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: The Fabelmans
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A movie about the two female journalists who helped break the Harvey Weinstein story, She Said is an exploration of the still-recent events which led to the toppling of a Hollywood giant and the start of the #MeToo movement, that struggles at times to be as compelling as… Read More Blu-ray Review: She Said (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite onscreen in Ticket to Paradise, a romantic comedy that serves as an exercise in they don’t make ‘em like this anymore cinema. The film is a throwback to 1990s or early-2000s rom-coms that follows the formula to a tee, but gets by… Read More Blu-ray Review: Ticket to Paradise (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Halloween Ends. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. The third film in director David Gordon Green’s modern Halloween trilogy that began in 2018, Halloween Ends is now arriving on Blu-ray… Read More Blu-ray Review: Halloween Ends (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) How long can you keep running from death before it catches up to you? That’s the surprisingly deep question being asked at the centre of DreamWorks Animation’s almost shockingly good sequel Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. As a followup to 2011’s Puss in Boots, which was itself… Read More Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
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