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 | Nov 4, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Maleficent (Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, VOD) does sort of a “Wicked” number on the story of Sleeping Beauty’s evil sorceress, casting her as the tragic figure of a dark fantasy (but not too dark for children—barely) of a revisionist fairy tale....
by Danny Miller | May 21, 2014 | Interviews
When Mickey Scarpato’s (Philip Seymour Hoffman) stepson Leon is killed in a construction “accident,” few people in the working class neighborhood of God’s Pocket are sorry that he’s gone. Mickey tries to hide this news from his wife, Jeannie (Christina Hendricks), but...
by Noah Walden | Mar 6, 2014 | News, Trailers
Vimeo user Caleb Slain has constructed a beautiful collection of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s work, painstakingly cobbling together elements from all 47 of the actor’s films. From Caleb Slain: A post-script journey through Philip Seymour Hoffman’s...
by Michael Taus | Feb 2, 2014 | News, What's Hot
The actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York apartment on Sunday morning of an apparent drug overdose, according to a law enforcement official who requested anonymity because he was not certain the actor’s family had been informed of the death. The...
