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 | Apr 9, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Freaks & Geeks: The Complete Series (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) – Somewhere between Dawson’s Creek and Welcome to the Doll House is this sharp, funny, and surprisingly poignant high school dram-edy (for lack of a better word), which premiered in 1999 and lasted for...
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 | Feb 24, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Spotlight (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) is the kind of film that takes on the Big Subject with modesty and self-reflection, drawing the viewer into the world of the reporters and culture of Boston in 2001 to better understand the scope of everything that’s at...
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...