by Danny Miller | Mar 3, 2016 | Interviews, What's Hot
Every film nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary was excellent but I was happy to see Asif Kapadia win on Sunday night for his moving film about six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse. Featuring unseen archival footage and previously...
by Danny Miller | Mar 2, 2016 | Interviews, What's Hot
There were several excellent films in contention for this year’s Best Foreign Language Academy Award, but I was thrilled when Hungarian director László Nemes’ haunting and unusual Son of Saul won the Oscar on Sunday night. Taking place entirely in the...
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...
by Sean Axmaker | May 12, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Still Alice (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Julianne Moore won her first Academy Award (after four nominations since Boogie Nights in 1998) playing a renowned linguistics professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and starts to experience her...
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...
