by Sean Axmaker | May 5, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Selma (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), directed by Ava Duvernay (who also rewrote Paul Webb’s screenplay without credit), takes on the 1965 march led by Dr. Martin Luther King through Alabama as a benchmark moment in the fight for voting rights and, more...
by Danny Miller | Jan 16, 2015 | Interviews, What's Hot
I know awards are subjective and really shouldn’t matter, but a day after the Oscar nominations were announced, I’m still upset that Ava DuVernay, the director of the stunning film Selma and David Oyelowo, who brilliantly plays Martin Luther King, Jr. in the film,...
by Danny Miller | Jan 2, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
Just what the world needs — another end-of-year list! I decided to go with my favorite 20 instead of 10 because I think it was a pretty good year for the movies, but there should obviously be a huge asterisk at the end of that title that stands for “of the movies I’ve...
by Danny Miller | Dec 31, 2014 | Interviews, What's Hot
Ava DuVernay’s remarkable film Selma chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President...