by Sean Axmaker | Jul 19, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
The smartest thing about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Ultimate Edition (Warner, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, Ultra HD Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, VOD) is its revisionist take on the destruction that concluded Man of Steel, Zach Snyder’s reboot of Superman as a...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 13, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Everybody Wants Some!! (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Richard Linklater describes this film as the “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, his 1993 coming of age (or perhaps more accurately coming of self) classic. Set four years after Dazed and...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 6, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Only Yesterday (GKids / Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the Studio Ghibli animated feature directed and scripted by Isao Takahata (of Grave of the Fireflies and the Oscar-nominated The Tale of the Princess Kaguya), received its American premiere this year but is in...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 30, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
In Thailand filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor (2015), the world we live in and the world we dream are one and the same. An elementary school has been turned into a makeshift hospital for soldiers suffering from a mysterious sleeping...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 22, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Midnight Special (2016) begins in the dark, literally and figuratively. Two men in an anonymous motel room keep the shades drawn awaiting the cover of night. There’s a boy wearing goggles and reading comic books with a flashlight under the covers. It may be part...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 16, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
10 Cloverfield Lane (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD) was a stealth surprise when it came out of nowhere in early 2016. The surprise was that producer J.J. Abrams kept the production under wraps until weeks before its release, when enigmatic banner ads and trailers suddenly...
