by Sean Axmaker | Apr 6, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD) – J.J. Abrams takes over the reins of the Star Wars franchise with what is technically a sequel (“Chapter VII: The Force Awakens”) but is just as much a course correction, a reboot, and a...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 15, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
The Big Short (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Adam McKay is not necessarily the guy you look to for dramatic outrage at the greed and failure behind the economic collapse of the last decade. He is, after all, the director who guided Will Ferrell through such comedies...
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 Sean Axmaker | Feb 24, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Spotlight (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) is the kind of film that takes on the Big Subject with modesty and self-reflection, drawing the viewer into the world of the reporters and culture of Boston in 2001 to better understand the scope of everything that’s at...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 3, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Bridge of Spies (Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, VOD), Steven Spielberg’s cold war drama, stars Tom Hanks as insurance attorney James B. Donovan, an American idealist asked to represent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a Soviet spy captured by the CIA in 1957 and...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 12, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
The Martian (Fox, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD) comes to disc with two Golden Globe wins, and despite the dubious categorization of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, it is neither a comedy nor a musical (despite the disco soundtrack—don’t ask). It is the rare...