by Sean Axmaker | Nov 3, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
I took a week off the usual new release pattern for Halloween so I’m catching up on two weeks of disc releases. There’s a lot here, too much to do justice to it all, but here are the highlights of what I received for review. Inside Out (Disney, Blu-ray,...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 13, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Tomorrowland (Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, Disney Movies Anywhere, VOD), the latest movie based on (sort of) a Disneyland attraction, is science fiction with heavy helpings of steampunk and retro-futurism, a film that visualizes the future with the idealism born...
by Danny Miller | Feb 25, 2015 | Interviews, What's Hot
I loved the speech given by director Patrick Osborne and producer Kristina Reed on Sunday night when they won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. “Those are the two people at the Oscars that I’d want to have lunch with,” was my comment after hearing their...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 15, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
In terms of its focus, Million Dollar Arm is lot more like Jerry Maguire (1996) than it is like The Rookie (2002), or even Slumdog Millionaire, an Oscar-winning 2008 drama that, on the surface at least, it would seem to have a lot in common with. And that’s a shame,...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 5, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot
At one point in Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, Bernadette Peters pronounces her lines in such a robotic, uninterested and seemingly confused fashion that you’d almost swear that she was reading them for the very first time. To be honest, the digitally animated...