by Sean Axmaker | Nov 30, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Pete’s Dragon (Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) is that rare breed of remake that outshines the original. The 1977 film, about an orphaned boy who runs away from his abusive adoptive parents with a magical dragon, was a live action film with a bright cartoon character...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 17, 2013 | Home Viewing
Elysium (Blu-ray Combo, DVD, Digital HD, On Demand) showed up more than any other film in the Criticwire survey of Biggest Disappointments of 2013. Don’t get us wrong; Elysium is a fun film with a slightly subversive political message, but its commentary plays...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 17, 2013 | Interviews
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, the second feature from David Lowery, plays like the cinematic answer to an outlaw folk song. It’s out of time, an existence in the smudge between the Great Depression and the seventies recession in a rural Texas town where...