by Sean Axmaker | Jun 22, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Midnight Special (2016) begins in the dark, literally and figuratively. Two men in an anonymous motel room keep the shades drawn awaiting the cover of night. There’s a boy wearing goggles and reading comic books with a flashlight under the covers. It may be part...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 12, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Hail, Caesar! (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the Coen Bros.’s sly lampoon of 1950s Hollywood, is an affectionate and satirical tribute to studio filmmaking and cultural politics in early 1950s America, just before the decline of the studios. Set around the...
by Sean Axmaker | May 18, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Deadpool (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K UltraHD, VOD) – Irreverent, outrageous, and strewn with self-aware commentary and dark humor, Deadpool is the polar opposite of the self-serious Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It is raunchy and gory and features a...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 30, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Hateful Eight (Anchor Bay, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the eighth feature by Quentin Tarantino, is something strange and audacious even for a filmmaker whose films are rarely short of either. It’s a vivid widescreen western epic that runs nearly three hours yet...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 1, 2016 | Home Viewing, Podcast, Reviews, What's Hot
Room (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Not The Room. Just Room, as if there were no others, and for Jack (Jacob Tremblay), the five-year-old son of a young mother (Brie Larson), there aren’t. It’s his entire universe and as far as he knows nothing exists...