by Sean Axmaker | Oct 11, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
X-Men Apocalypse (Fox, Blu-ray, 4K HD, DVD, VOD), the sixth in the official X-Men big screen franchise (the ninth if you count the Wolverine and Deadpool spin-offs) and the third film in the prequel trilogy, is cut to fit into the big screen mythos as carved out of...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 27, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
The Neon Demon (Broadgreen, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – “I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t write… no real talent. But I’m pretty, and I can make money off pretty.” We first meet Jesse (Elle Fanning), a 16-year-old girl from Middle...
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 | 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 19, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
You could call A Hologram for the King (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) a mid-life crisis drama, which is true enough, but it is really a crisis of purpose and identity for an old-school middle-aged businessman trying to remain relevant in the modern world. Tom Hanks is...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 4, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
The Lobster (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) – Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos describes his English language debut as his film about love (following Dogtooth, his film on life, and Alps, on death). Which is not necessarily to call it a love story. It is, in its own way,...
