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 James Rocchi | Apr 24, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
Blue Ruin may be one of the strongest American independent films of 2014: It’s a revenge saga, but it isn’t; the hero isn’t a terse one-man army but instead a shy, silent man driven to desperate, dangerous acts; it isn’t about swift, cinematic...
by James Rocchi | Apr 17, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
A film-lover’s dream documentary, Jodorowsky’s Dune is a chronicle of magnificence, obsession, impracticality and excess, all culminating in one of the greatest films that never existed. Chronicling the attempts by noted director Alejandro Jodorowski to...
by James Rocchi | Apr 3, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, What's Hot
Alison Willmore is the newly-hired Film Critic for BuzzFeed — and the first time that mighty site has created a position with “Critic” in the title. After dining at Golden State, on Fairfax, Ms. Wilmore and I talked about her new position, what...
by Bryan Reesman | Mar 27, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, What's Hot
I’ve been a lifelong genre and cult movie fan, and it seems like mainstream movie fans and critics do not always give these films the love they deserve. Thus my idea for Guilty Treasures, a podcast devoted to exploring horror, sci-fi, action, and cult movies...
by James Rocchi | Mar 27, 2014 | Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
Matt Berninger (R) is the lead singer for Brooklyn-based band The National; his younger brother Tom Berninger (L) was a would-be-filmmaker residing in his parent’s house when Matt asked him to work as a roadie and shoot documentary footage on a ocean-crossing...
