'Looking for the Jackalope' captured the Best Feature Comedy Award at ARFF. It is an amazing first feature from writer/director Karl Shefelman. I’m sure it won’t be his last.
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DVD Review: ‘Loch Ness: Series 1’ (2016) ‒ The Monster from Within
Laura Fraser and Siobhan Finneran star in this captivating serial killer mystery from Acorn Media.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Kumail Nanjiani Stars in ‘The Big Sick’ — AKA the Year’s Best Rom-com
'The Big Sick' is one of the year’s biggest comedy smashes and one of the year’s best films.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: No Pirates, Nor Mystery, to be Found in Lee Soo-Youn’s ‘Bluebeard’
No replay value kills the AV quality.
Read More »4K UltraHD/3D Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Is a 4K Knockout
"Guardians of the Galaxy" the best 4K disc in the galaxy! Obviously.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Jackie Chan Goes Indiana Jones in Stanley Tong’s ‘Kung Fu Yoga’
An awesome combo of great video and excellent audio paired with Chan's always amusing demeanor.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Hickok’
“You know the myth…now meet the legend.”
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Protocol’ (1984) ‒ Goldie Hawn Gets Politically Incorrect
Honesty is the best politics according to this rocky '80s comedy, now available in widescreen for the first time from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read More »Anthem Film Festival Review: North Korea Nightmare and China Fears
“Go to where the light is” may seem a strange directive for someone seeking to escape from a totalitarian regime until one sees a photo of North Korea and its neighbors taken from a satellite. Yeonmi Park’s tale of her escape reveals that not only is the darkness physical, but spiritual as well.
Read More »Anthem Film Review: ‘Democracy Through the Looking Glass: Media & Politics in the Post-Truth Era’
Alice had to step through the looking glass to discover a strange world where everything was backwards and made no sense. Filmmaker Kevin Bowe only had to go to New Hampshire during the 2015 presidential primary. His film, Democracy Through the Looking Glass: Media & Politics in the Post-Truth Era, screened at the Anthem Film Festival, part of FreedomFest. FreedomFest, a libertarian political and financial conference, now in its tenth year, bills itself as the worlds “largest gathering of free minds."
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