by Sean Axmaker | Mar 30, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Hateful Eight (Anchor Bay, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the eighth feature by Quentin Tarantino, is something strange and audacious even for a filmmaker whose films are rarely short of either. It’s a vivid widescreen western epic that runs nearly three hours yet...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 13, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Better Call Saul: Season One (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD) – Bob Odenkirk is Jimmy McGill, a struggling lawyer trying to get both respect and clients in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in this prequel series to the award-winning Breaking Bad. He was Saul Goodman in that show, the...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Another week off, this time for Thanksgiving, so I’m catching up on two weeks of New Releases. Mississippi Grind (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) plays like a seventies character drama, a meandering road movie through the byways of American characters who populate the...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 17, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The Flash: The Complete First Season (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD) – Originally introduced (or more accurately teased) in the second season of Arrow, The Flash” is the CW network’s lighter, brighter, more playful superhero series. Grant Gustin stars as...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 15, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Clouds of Sils Maria (Paramount, DVD, Digital HD, VOD) – Olivier Assayas wrote this drama about a veteran actress facing a transition in her career after Juliette Binoche, arguably France’s greatest and certainly most ambitious actress working today, challenged...