by Sean Axmaker | Dec 15, 2015 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the fifth film in the big-screen franchise based on the sixties Cold War spy TV series, continues to spin its alternative to the James Bond brand of espionage thriller. Like the 007 films, they are...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Danny Collins (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – “The following is kind of based on a true story a little bit.” A very little bit, it turns out, but it is a great premise. Danny Collins was a musical phenom of the seventies turned pop music legend who...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 7, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Once Upon A Time in America: Extended Director’s Cut (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD) is Sergio Leone’s portrait of a 20th century American success story as a gangster epic of greed, loyalty, betrayal, and power, seen through the haze of an opium high....
by Danny Miller | Jun 6, 2014 | Reviews, What's Hot
About halfway into Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, I started to feel sorry for screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Jack Reacher) and brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (Fair Game). While I was intrigued by...