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 | Oct 14, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
My Darling Clementine (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), John Ford’s sublime reinterpretation of the Wyatt Earp story and the Gunfight at OK Corral, rewrites history to become a mythic frontier legend and one of the most classically perfect westerns ever made. Henry Fonda...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 13, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete First Season (ABC, Blu-ray, DVD) is a problematic debut season. I think we can all agree on that. Critics have been less kind and fans more indulgent but the fact is, this series took most of the season to find its...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 28, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
TV has changed radically in the last decade but even with cable and streaming rivals, split seasons and winter and spring debuts, September remains the launch of the new TV season and that means the previous seasons start to roll out on disc in August. There are...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 14, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve dug into the TV on disc releases, due largely to the ambitious slate of classic movies and special editions I’ve been reviewing. But some interesting shows have debuted on disc recently. Here are the ones I had...