by Sean Axmaker | Jun 17, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Liam Neeson is back in action in the gritty crime thriller Run All Night (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), his third and most satisfying collaboration with filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown, Non-Stop). Neeson once again has a very specific skill set—his nickname...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 9, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Red Army (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Director Gabe Polsky, the Chicago-born son of Russian immigrants, dreamed of playing pro hockey and ended up making movies. This documentary, his directorial debut, finds the intersection of sports triumph, political gamesmanship,...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 4, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
McFarland, USA (Disney, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, VOD, Disney Movies Anywhere), the latest of Disney’s inspirational true-life sports dramas, stars Kevin Costner as a hothead of a football coach who lands in an impoverished California desert town and starts a...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 3, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
“Follow the drugs, and you’ll find dealers and users. Follow the money, and you have no idea where the case will take you.” So began the first season of HBO’s compelling tale of cops, crooks, and the social and bureaucratic forces that both divide and bind them, and...
by Sean Axmaker | May 7, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Masters of Sex: Season Two (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD) – Cable television, both pay and commercial varieties, has proven itself more fertile ground than the broadcast networks when it comes to nurturing period dramas that resonate with the present. Showtime’s drama...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 22, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix), written and directed by California-based and Iranian-born filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, is a genre film with a fresh approach and a distinctive cultural texture: a vampire movie from a female...