by Sean Axmaker | Jul 6, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Only Yesterday (GKids / Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the Studio Ghibli animated feature directed and scripted by Isao Takahata (of Grave of the Fireflies and the Oscar-nominated The Tale of the Princess Kaguya), received its American premiere this year but is in...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 27, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Drafthouse, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital), Sion Sono’s filmmaking freakout about making a movie in the midst of a Yakuza war, is actually far more insane than that description suggests. For one thing, it takes almost 90 minutes to get...
by James Rocchi | Oct 24, 2013 | Reviews, What's Hot
Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott team up … for one of the year’s worst movies. Early in The Counselor, it becomes apparent that the film — about Michael Fassbender’s lawyer character’s descent into the drug trade — is going...
