by Sean Axmaker | Feb 17, 2015 | Awards, Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
With the Oscars coming next week, three of the big nominees are coming to disc in advance of the ceremony: Birdman (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD), The Theory of Everything (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD). But...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 10, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Nightcrawler (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) earned an Oscar nomination for director Dan Gilroy’s screenplay, a wicked satire of the tabloid news television that chases sensationalistic stories for ratings (the cliché “if it bleeds, it leads” is the...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 3, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Dear White People (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD), the feature debut of director / writer Justin Simien, is a sharp, smart, ambitious satire of race, racism, privilege, prejudice, and power at an Ivy League college that has drawn comparisons to Spike Lee. Which...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The death of Blu-ray and DVD has apparently been prematurely called. Streaming and cable VOD still dominates home viewing but Redbox and other kiosk-based disc vendors have kept disc rentals alive (if not quite robust) and Blu-ray remains the format of choice for...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 20, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Bunny Lake Is Missing (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – In the late 1950s and early 1960s, no American director melded classic Hollywood style and cool modern European elegance better than producer/director Otto Preminger. His handsome films are celebrations of...