Videophiled: ‘Finding Dory’ for little kids, ‘Sausage Party’ for big kids, and an ‘Indignation’ for adults

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 16, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Finding Dory (Disney, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD), Pixar’s sequel to its gorgeous animated aquatic masterpiece, can’t shake off its sequel-ness—it plays like a variation on the theme rather than an original take on the familiar tale—but it’s a Pixar...

Videophiled TVD Beginnings: Debut seasons of ‘Angie Tribeca,’ ‘Shannara,’ ‘Lou Grant,’ ‘Vinyl,’ and more

by Sean Axmaker | Jun 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Angie Tribeca: The Complete First Season (Warner, DVD) – I loved Police Squad, the short-lived TV comedy from the creators of Airplane! that spoofed TV cop shows with an anything goes approach. Only six episodes were made before the networks gave up on it. This was...

Videophiled TVD: ‘Freak & Geeks’ on Blu-ray, plus ‘Grease Live!’ and ‘Childhood’s End’

by Sean Axmaker | Apr 9, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Freaks & Geeks: The Complete Series (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) – Somewhere between Dawson’s Creek and Welcome to the Doll House is this sharp, funny, and surprisingly poignant high school dram-edy (for lack of a better word), which premiered in 1999 and lasted for...

Interview: Travis Mathews, Writer/Co-Director of James Franco’s Explicit ‘Interior. Leather Bar.’

by Danny Miller | Jan 15, 2014 | Interviews

In order to avoid a dreaded X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to have been removed William Friedkin’s 1980 film Cruising. Inspired by the mythology that exists about that footage, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborated on...

Official Trailer: ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’

by Noah Walden | Dec 18, 2013 | News, Trailers

The first trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes dropped today, and given the somewhat surprising success of the last installment, this is one of the year’s more highly-anticipated films. The film shows a rabble-rousing Gary Oldman trying to rally a humanity...