Videophiled: Super-powered ‘Civil War’ and media-powered ‘Money Monster’

by Sean Axmaker | Sep 14, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Captain America: Civil War (Walt Disney, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, VOD) is an Avengers movie in everything but name. It’s got Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) as team captains picking sides in the hero-vs.-hero fight over government...

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: ‘Snow White: The Signature Collection’

by Sean Axmaker | Feb 5, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection (Disney, Blu-ray+DVD Combo) It’s hard to grasp today how revolutionary Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was in 1937. The beautiful (and at times a little dark and scary) Grimm Brothers fairy tale...

Library of Congress adds ‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘Roger & Me’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’ to National Film Registry

by Kyle Curtis | Jan 5, 2014 | News

Each year, the Library of Congress selects 25 American-made films to add to the National Film Registry. The Registry was created by the National Film Preservation Act to preserve films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant to...

Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Way Better Than a Spoonful of Sugar

by Danny Miller | Dec 13, 2013 | Reviews

Emma Thompson gives a complex, deeply moving and wildly funny performance as author P.L. Travers in John Lee Hancock’s delightful Saving Mr. Banks, a new film about Walt Disney’s attempts to get the rights to Mary Poppins from the book’s prickly author. While...