by Sean Axmaker | Nov 17, 2015 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD), Guy Ritchie’s big screen revival of the sixties secret agent series, is an origin story of sorts—think “When Napoleon met Illya”—with the two agents in a wary partnership. Otherwise it doesn’t...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 10, 2015 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Trainwreck (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – I don’t think I laughed as hard at any movie comedy this year as I did with Amy Schumer’s big screen debut feature as writer / star. Abetted by the direction of Judd Apatow, who has been moving from male-centric...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 21, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Jurassic World (Universal, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, VOD) is really what every summer spectacle aspires to be. It’s fleet, it wows audiences with special effects creations that are spectacular and inspired, it delivers romance and humor with the action and...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 9, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Slow West (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2015, stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as 16-year-old Jay Cavendish, the son of Scottish aristocrats on a romantic (and foolhardy) journey to find the girl he loves on the 19th century American...
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...