Videophiled BriTVD: ‘London Spy,’ ‘Wars of the Roses,’ and more ‘Peaky Blinder,’ ‘Grantchester,’ and ‘Detectorists’

by Sean Axmaker | Jul 8, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

There is indeed a spy in London Spy (BBC, DVD) but this BBC mini-series is not a traditional espionage drama. Danny (Ben Whishaw) is a club-culture young gay man with a dreary day job who meets the closeted, emotionally suppressed Alex (Edward Holcroft), a genius with...

Videophiled: ‘Wild’ about ‘Interstellar’ and the debut season of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’

by Sean Axmaker | Mar 31, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Interstellar (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD) – Christopher Nolan used his clout as the director of the hugely successful Dark Knight trilogy and cerebral caper film Inception to get this big-budget science fiction epic made on a scale that otherwise would be out of reach....

‘Sherlock”s Benedict Cumberbatch on ‘Sesame Street’

by Sean Axmaker | Feb 4, 2014 | Trailers

The final Sherlock of the season (and perhaps for the next couple of years) ran on PBS Sunday night. If you’re already feeling the withdrawals, maybe this clip can help tide you over. Benedict Cumberbatch makes an appearance on Sesame Street, meeting his Muppet...

Videophiled: Benedict Cumberbatch is Julian Assange in ‘The Fifth Estate’

by Sean Axmaker | Jan 28, 2014 | Home Viewing

The Fifth Estate (Touchstone, Blu-ray, DVD) — Benedict Cumberbatch makes such a fascinating Julian Assange that it only focuses attention on the problems with Bill Condon’s portrait of Assange, WikiLeaks and the Bradley Manning revelations. Ostensibly about how...

Review: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’

by Myriam Gabriel-Pollock | Dec 11, 2013 | Reviews

Let’s get this part out of the way: If you are a hardcore Tolkien purist who wishes to see the film only if it stays 100% true to the revered author’s work, then you may find yourself displeased with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The second...