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...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 23, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Blindspot: The Complete First Season (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD) is the signature high concept network show of the 2015-2016 TV season. It opens with a doozy of a hook—a mysterious bag is left in Times Square, the cops clear the normally crowded spot (which gives us one of...
by Sean Axmaker | May 27, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
John Dillinger was the most notorious of the Depression-era gangsters and his exploits (and attendant newspaper coverage) made him a romantic anti-hero to many of the folks who felt betrayed by the bankers and businessmen of the country. Dillinger (Arrow,...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 1, 2016 | Home Viewing, Podcast, Reviews, What's Hot
Room (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Not The Room. Just Room, as if there were no others, and for Jack (Jacob Tremblay), the five-year-old son of a young mother (Brie Larson), there aren’t. It’s his entire universe and as far as he knows nothing exists...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 24, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Spotlight (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) is the kind of film that takes on the Big Subject with modesty and self-reflection, drawing the viewer into the world of the reporters and culture of Boston in 2001 to better understand the scope of everything that’s at...
