by Sean Axmaker | Nov 25, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Kamikaze ’89 (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) – Rainer Werner Fassbinder takes a rare onscreen lead in what would be his last screen appearance in Wolfgang Kremm’s 1982 new wave science fiction cop drama. Based on a satirical science fiction novel by Swedish...
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...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Son of Saul (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) drops the viewer into the horror of the Holocaust with its first images. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Sonderkommando, chosen from the prisoners of a concentration camp to work in the gas chambers, and we are plunged into his crushing...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 20, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
The Revenant (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K, Digital HD) has been called a revenge movie, which is true enough. Leonardo DiCaprio is Hugh Glass, a real-life 19th century mountain man and guide whose story inspired legends, books, and at least one previous film (Man in the...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Billed as “The World’s Most Dangerous Group,” N.W.A. was a musical bomb that blew up the hip-hop world with such force that the reverberations were felt all through popular culture. Straight Outta Compton: Unrated Director’s Cut (Universal,...