Videophiled: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Primary Instinct’ of Stephen Tobolowsky

by Sean Axmaker | Mar 30, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

The Hateful Eight (Anchor Bay, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the eighth feature by Quentin Tarantino, is something strange and audacious even for a filmmaker whose films are rarely short of either. It’s a vivid widescreen western epic that runs nearly three hours yet...

Videophiled TVD: ‘Better Call Saul,’ ‘Peaky Blinders,’ the end of ‘Hannibal,’ the beginning of ‘Game of Thrones,’ and more TV on disc

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...

Videophiled: ‘Mississippi Grind’ – an American original, plus ‘American Ultra,’ ‘Goodnight Mommy,’ and ‘A Hard Day’

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...

Videophiled TVD: ‘The Flash,’ ‘Jane the Virgin,’ ‘Empire,’ ‘The Jinx,’ the end of ‘Mad Men’ and more

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...

Videophiled: ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ with Juliette Binoche, the epic ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ from India, the insidious horror of ‘It Follows’

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...