Videophiled: A new ‘Jungle Book,’ seventies-style ‘Nice Guys,’ and ‘The Night Manager’ goes undercover

by Sean Axmaker | Aug 31, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

The Jungle Book (2016) (Walt Disney, Blu-ray, DVD), Jon Favreau’s live action (or at least photo-realistic) version of the Rudyard Kipling stories, offers far more than the bare necessities as it combines Kipling’s stories and Walt Disney’s 1967...

Videophiled: A Tom Hanks ‘Hologram’ and ‘Raiders!’ – the secret remake

by Sean Axmaker | Aug 19, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

You could call A Hologram for the King (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) a mid-life crisis drama, which is true enough, but it is really a crisis of purpose and identity for an old-school middle-aged businessman trying to remain relevant in the modern world. Tom Hanks is...

Videophiled: ‘Batman v Superman’ – Dawn of the DCU, plus ‘Bridgend’ and ‘Miles Ahead’

by Sean Axmaker | Jul 19, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

The smartest thing about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Ultimate Edition (Warner, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, Ultra HD Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, VOD) is its revisionist take on the destruction that concluded Man of Steel, Zach Snyder’s reboot of Superman as a...

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: ‘Only Yesterday’ and ‘Electra Woman and Dyna Girl’ – two very different revivals

by Sean Axmaker | Jul 6, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Only Yesterday (GKids / Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the Studio Ghibli animated feature directed and scripted by Isao Takahata (of Grave of the Fireflies and the Oscar-nominated The Tale of the Princess Kaguya), received its American premiere this year but is in...