by Sean Axmaker | Jul 15, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Under the Skin (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, Cable VOD) isn’t a film that wants to make things easy for the viewer. The experience is not unlike that which I suppose its unnamed protagonist, an alien reborn in the body of a human host (Scarlett Johansson), goes...
by Sean Axmaker | May 13, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Her (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, VOD, On Demand), the first film from Spike Jonze since his underrated take on Where the Wild Things Are, returns to the territory of his debut film Being John Malkovich but without the satirical edge. Like his fellow filmmakers...
by Danny Miller | Apr 4, 2014 | Features, What's Hot
I recently attended the press conference for Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It’s a wonderful movie — I’d go so far as to say it’s my favorite Marvel film to date. The new installment picks up after The Avengers’ cataclysmic events in New York and...
by James Rocchi | Jan 9, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot
“The interior of a computer is a fine and private place, but none, I fear, do there embrace … ” Roger Ebert (after Andrew Marvell), “Review: Tron,” published Jan. 1, 1982 While the late Roger Ebert will not, of course, ever get to see...