In 2021, during SXSW, director Malcolm Ingram premiered his documentary Clerk., an exploratory look at the life and career of Kevin Smith, the loquacious foul-mouthed creator of the View Askewuniverse. Those unfamiliar with that title may recognize a few of… Read More ›
Michael Rooker
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Digital Code Giveaway
Beginning August 1st, 2023, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is available to own on both digital and physical formats. If you haven’t yet snagged a copy for yourself, perhaps EoM can help! As has become my habit,… Read More ›
It’s time to say see you later, not goodbye, to the MCU Guardians of the Galaxy with “Vol. 3” on home video.
“Ain’t no thing like me, except me.” Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) in Guardians of the Galaxy When Marvel Studios first started, rather than jumping to the characters of Fantastic Four or even Captain America, they began with Tony Stark,… Read More ›
Attention A-holes: It’s time for one last ride with the Guardians of the Galaxy via “Volume 3.”
Say what you will about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but, in the early days, no one expected to be so taken by a collection of assassins, thieves, marauders, and murders brought to live action from the mind behind Tromeo and… Read More ›
Keep the beat whenever and however you like with “Vivo” on home video.
The recent go-to writer for making a family film, especially one with music, is Lin-Manuel Miranda. He’s not just the mind behind global phenomenon Hamilton, he’s the lyricist behind Moana (2016) and Encanto (2021). It makes sense, then, that if… Read More ›
“White Elephant” DVD Giveaway
Writer/director Jesse V. Johnson has produced some truly fun action films over the last few years: The Debt Collector (2018), Triple Threat (2019), Avengement (2019), and Hell Hath No Fury (2021), to name a few. His latest project is White Elephant, an action thriller centered… Read More ›
“The Suicide Squad” lands on home video so it’s time for a deep dive into discomfort.
Like all things given time, the way we look at movies shifts. After my first viewing of writer/director James Gunn’s (Slither) The Suicide Squad, I found myself entertained, but not quite sold. Choices felt odd in their presentation, violence seemed… Read More ›
The latest entry in the Fast Saga, “F9,” comes home with a director’s cut and 80 minutes of bonus materials.
After blasting into theaters June of 2021, F9 is ready to drop into your house. The nineth film in the main series and the 10th film overall, F9 not only sees the return of writer/director Justin Lin (Fast & Furious… Read More ›
While not a total revelation, “The Suicide Squad” certainly pushes the bounds of the subgenre.
After their first appearance in DC Comics’ “The Brave and the Bold” issue 25 in 1959, the subversive military group known as Task Force X has known many members over its lengthy run. It’s not just because the missions they… Read More ›
Forget jumping the shark. Justin Lin’s “F9” injects it with enough NOS to ride it to the moon.
When the Fast & Furious series began in 2001, the OG film was a crime drama about an undercover cop, Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker), getting too close to his target, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel). 20 years later the Fast films,… Read More ›
Malcolm Ingram’s doc “Clerk.” is a loving mosaic to Kevin Smith, The Man Who Would Be King Geek. [SXSW Film Festival]
Before the Fengshen Cinematic Universe, the modern Monster Universe, the DCEU, or the MCU, there was the View Askewinverse. Before there was Kevin Feige (Marvel Studios) or Jon Favreau (The Mandalorian) as the pinnacles of geekdom, there was writer/director Kevin… Read More ›
Check out the unexpectedly life-affirming apocalypse world of “Love and Monsters” on home video.
Despite how things may look from a cinematic perspective, there have been a number of reputable films released this year. In fact, one of the best things to come out of reduced access to theaters is an increase in access… Read More ›
Sci-fi adventure comedy “Love and Monsters” offers all the title suggest and much more.
There have been many stories put on celluloid about the end of humanity. There’s the nightmarish It Comes At Night (2017), the lonely The Night Eats the World (2018), the frigid Snowpiercer (2013), the violent Mad Max: Fury Road (2015),… Read More ›
Celebrate Top Gun Day 2020 with a trio of Tom Cruise films hitting 4K for the first time.
If you were alive in the late ‘80s, you’d be hard-pressed to meet someone who didn’t know Tom Cruise. He’d made some waves as greaser Steve Randle in the adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders (1983), entertained as entrepreneurial… Read More ›
‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ may be a mature and poignant sophomore outing, but it’ll still kick your butt. (Extended Cut)
In 2014, Marvel Studios unveiled Guardians of the Galaxy, a rock-centric space oddity unlike anything Marvel had released before. Through the direction of James Gunn (Slither/The Belko Experiment), Marvel introduced the world to a rag-tag group of miscreants and killers… Read More ›
Moral codes are tested in ‘The Belko Experiment’, but who’s testing who?
We never truly know what we’d do in a situation until we’re placed deep within it. Sure, we can plan, practice, and pontificate about what we’d do in a life-or-death moment, but we never really know until it happens. In… Read More ›
Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” is a space oddity.
Heralding a return to silly, thrilling space travel movies, Guardians of the Galaxy, opening August 1st, is Marvel Studio’s tenth picture and the final standalone piece of what they call “Phase 2.” Directed and co-written by James Gunn (Slither, Super),… Read More ›