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 | May 29, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The Expanse: Season One (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD) is the most ambitious original science fiction series created by the SyFy network since their award-winning Battlestar Galactica reboot. Based on the best-selling novels by James S. A. Corey (the pen name of authors...
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 | May 24, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Series (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) opens with Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the treasurer of Atlantic City and the man who runs the town — and the graft — from behind the pose of public service, toasting the U.S. Congress and the...