by Danny Miller | Feb 22, 2016 | Interviews, What's Hot
Mike Nichols wowed movie and theatergoing audiences for more than six decades with a rich and deeply varied body of work. Just four months before he died, in a set of final, historic interviews, Nichols opened up to his close friend and colleague, theater director...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 12, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Show Me a Hero (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD), a six-hour HBO miniseries developed by David Simon (The Wire) and William F. Zorzi from the non-fiction book by Lisa Belkin and directed by Paul Haggis (with a subtlety and nuance I didn’t know he had in him), stars Oscar Isaac as...
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 | 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 | Aug 14, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The Knick: The Complete First Season (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) is the project to which Steven Soderbergh committed himself after he announced his retirement from filmmaking. So instead of directing a film, he directed all ten episodes of the debut season of this original...