Videophiled: ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ of ‘My Golden Days’ – Remembrances of days past

by Sean Axmaker | Jul 13, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Everybody Wants Some!! (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Richard Linklater describes this film as the “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, his 1993 coming of age (or perhaps more accurately coming of self) classic. Set four years after Dazed and...

Videophiled: ’45 Years’ on ’10 Cloverfield Lane’

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

10 Cloverfield Lane (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD) was a stealth surprise when it came out of nowhere in early 2016. The surprise was that producer J.J. Abrams kept the production under wraps until weeks before its release, when enigmatic banner ads and trailers suddenly...

Videophiled: ‘Hail, Caesar!’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’

by Sean Axmaker | Jun 12, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Hail, Caesar! (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the Coen Bros.’s sly lampoon of 1950s Hollywood, is an affectionate and satirical tribute to studio filmmaking and cultural politics in early 1950s America, just before the decline of the studios. Set around the...

Videophiled: Jennifer Lawrence is ‘Joy’ and Pablo Larrain’s ‘The Club’ for disgraced clergy

by Sean Axmaker | May 4, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot

David O. Russell wrote (or rather, rewrote) Joy (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K UltraHD) for Jennifer Lawrence, who he directed to an Academy Award in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and an Oscar nomination in American Hustle. Lawrence score another nomination for Joy, based on...

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...