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 | Nov 10, 2015 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Trainwreck (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – I don’t think I laughed as hard at any movie comedy this year as I did with Amy Schumer’s big screen debut feature as writer / star. Abetted by the direction of Judd Apatow, who has been moving from male-centric...
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...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 9, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Slow West (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2015, stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as 16-year-old Jay Cavendish, the son of Scottish aristocrats on a romantic (and foolhardy) journey to find the girl he loves on the 19th century American...