by Sean Axmaker | Feb 25, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
With less than a week before the Academy Awards are handed out, two of the Best Picture nominees arrive on disc: Gravity (with ten nominations in all) and Nebraska (with six nominations). Gravity (Warner, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, Digital HD, On Demand), directed by...
by Richard T. Jameson | Jan 14, 2014 | Awards, Features, News, What's Hot
Images, lines, gestures, moods from the year’s films By Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy * Inside Llewyn Davis: Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) sits by in the Village club, uninvited, as “500 Miles” is performed by Jim & Jean (Justin Timberlake, Carey...
by Danny Miller | Dec 31, 2013 | Features, What's Hot
I enjoy reading all of the best-of-the-year movie lists that come out during this time, but they always require a major caveat: it’s highly unlikely that the writers of such lists have seen every single film in whatever category they’re evaluating. That’s certainly...
by Noah Walden | Dec 30, 2013 | News, What's Hot
Is it fair to compare a lesbian love story told by a Tunisian-French director to a documentary about a wave of killings in Indonesia in which the still living assailants recreate the scenes of slaughter? Or to state which is definitively better; the tale of man sold...
by James Rocchi | Dec 9, 2013 | Interviews, Podcast
In a special The Lunch Podcast recorded literally right after Sunday’s L.A. Film Critic’s Awards Voting Meeting, James is joined by fellow LAFCA members Alonso Duralde (The Wrap), Amy Nicholson (L.A. Weekly and Karina Longworth (Freelance) to talk not only about the...