by Sean Axmaker | Mar 23, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) brings an end to the first and most successful big screen adaptation of a young adult dystopian thriller of an oppressive, brutal future. Divergent and The Maze Runner followed with less success, both...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 4, 2014 | Home Viewing
12 Years a Slave (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD), coming hot off an Oscar win for Best Picture as well as Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong’o, whose acceptance speech was a work of art) and Best Adapted Screenplay (by John Ridley), timed this release right....
by James Rocchi | Nov 14, 2013 | Reviews, What's Hot
Katniss is back, and there’s gonna be trouble. The follow-up to The Hunger Games, Catching Fire is a film whose specifics seem to be poles apart. It is the rousing, character driven continuation of a near-future saga that somehow combines widescreen metaphors,...