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: ‘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 Family: ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ ‘Kubo,’ and ‘The BFG’

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 30, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Pete’s Dragon (Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) is that rare breed of remake that outshines the original. The 1977 film, about an orphaned boy who runs away from his abusive adoptive parents with a magical dragon, was a live action film with a bright cartoon character...

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....

Super-Videophiled TVD: ‘Supergirl,’ ‘The Flash,’ ‘Gotham,’ ‘Lucifer,’ ‘Evil Dead,’ ‘Legends,’ ‘The Killing Joke,’ and more

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

The superhero is the new western hero. Just as in the 1940s and 1950s, when the western was the defining American genre in theaters and on TV, comic book heroes now dominate the big screen and increasingly the small screen. And where the Marvel Comics Universe rules...