by Sean Axmaker | Jun 2, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Manhattan: Season Two (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) covers more ground than the first season of the WGN original drama set at the Los Alamos military base where the atomic bomb was developed during World War II, both historically and thematically. William Petersen joins...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 23, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) brings an end to the first and most successful big screen adaptation of a young adult dystopian thriller of an oppressive, brutal future. Divergent and The Maze Runner followed with less success, both...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 1, 2016 | Home Viewing, Podcast, Reviews, What's Hot
Room (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Not The Room. Just Room, as if there were no others, and for Jack (Jacob Tremblay), the five-year-old son of a young mother (Brie Larson), there aren’t. It’s his entire universe and as far as he knows nothing exists...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 5, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Sicario (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), a violent, chaotic, adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war on the American border with Mexico, is a film that constantly seems to be spinning out of control. That’s not entirely by design, I...
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...