by Sean Axmaker | Jun 12, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Hail, Caesar! (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the Coen Bros.’s sly lampoon of 1950s Hollywood, is an affectionate and satirical tribute to studio filmmaking and cultural politics in early 1950s America, just before the decline of the studios. Set around the...
by Sean Axmaker | May 18, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Deadpool (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K UltraHD, VOD) – Irreverent, outrageous, and strewn with self-aware commentary and dark humor, Deadpool is the polar opposite of the self-serious Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It is raunchy and gory and features a...
by Sean Axmaker | May 4, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
David O. Russell wrote (or rather, rewrote) Joy (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K UltraHD) for Jennifer Lawrence, who he directed to an Academy Award in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and an Oscar nomination in American Hustle. Lawrence score another nomination for Joy, based on...
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 | Apr 13, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Losing Ground (Milestone, Blu-ray, DVD) – If you’ve never heard of American playwright and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, don’t feel bad. At least not for yourself. Collins succumbed to cancer in 1988 at the age of 46 after completing just one feature. The...