by Sean Axmaker | Apr 7, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The Immigrant (Anchor Bay, Blu-ray, DVD) – Marion Cotillard earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in the Dardenne Brothers’s Two Days, One Night but I think her best performance of 2014 is in this film. She plays Ewa, a Polish immigrant in 1921 New York...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 24, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Two freshly-anointed Oscar winners arrive on home video this week: Whiplash, which won awards for Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons and for editing, and sound mixing, and Big Hero 6, this year’s Best Animated Feature, debut on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD. In Whiplash...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 17, 2015 | Awards, Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
With the Oscars coming next week, three of the big nominees are coming to disc in advance of the ceremony: Birdman (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD), The Theory of Everything (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD). But...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 10, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Nightcrawler (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) earned an Oscar nomination for director Dan Gilroy’s screenplay, a wicked satire of the tabloid news television that chases sensationalistic stories for ratings (the cliché “if it bleeds, it leads” is the...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 3, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Dear White People (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD), the feature debut of director / writer Justin Simien, is a sharp, smart, ambitious satire of race, racism, privilege, prejudice, and power at an Ivy League college that has drawn comparisons to Spike Lee. Which...
