Dottie Ponedel and Marlene Dietrich: A Match Made in Movie Heaven

by Danny Miller | Mar 2, 2018 | Features, What's Hot

I always love learning about the behind-the-scenes artists who played a big role in creating the magic of Hollywood but whose names are not that well known today. One of those unsung heroes from the golden age of the movies was make-up artist extraordinaire Dottie...

Videophiled: Sully, Florence, American Honey, and Suicide Squad – From hero to villains

by Sean Axmaker | Dec 29, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Sully (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K UltraHD, VOD) is a fittingly modest nickname for an unassuming career airline pilot who became an American hero in 2009. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger was piloting a routine flight from LaGuardia when his Airbus airliner was...

Videophiled Crime TVD: ‘The Night Of,’ ‘Elementary,’ the ‘Chicago’ way, and more

by Sean Axmaker | Dec 17, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

The first episode of The Night Of (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD), the HBO mini-series created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian and acclaimed author and screenwriter Richard Price, plunges the audience into the skin of a Nasir “Naz” Khan (Riz Ahmed), a...

Videophiled: ‘Hell or High Water,’ ‘Don’t Think Twice,’ and ‘The Intervention’

by Sean Axmaker | Dec 7, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Hell or High Water (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) is as good an American drama as you’ll see this year. Jeff Bridges stars as a Texas Ranger on the trail of a pair of bank robbers and his playfully crusty performance as a laconic frontier lawman on the verge of...

Videophiled: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ and ‘Captain Fantastic’

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 2, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Star Trek Beyond (Paramount, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, 4K Ultra HD, DVD, Digital, VOD) is the third feature in the “when they were young” reboot of the franchise and the first one since J.J. Abrams left Federation space for a galaxy long ago and far, far away....