by Sean Axmaker | Dec 31, 2016 | Features, What's Hot
We’ve been hearing people pronounce the death of DVD and Blu-ray for years now. You’d never know it from the astonishing wealth of Blu-ray debuts, restored movies, and lovingly-produced special editions in 2016. The sales numbers are way down from a decade...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 29, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Sully (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K UltraHD, VOD) is a fittingly modest nickname for an unassuming career airline pilot who became an American hero in 2009. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger was piloting a routine flight from LaGuardia when his Airbus airliner was...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 29, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Preacher: Season One (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD) is based on a comic book series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon but it’s no superhero adventure. Developed for TV by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg with Breaking Bad veteran Sam Catlin, it stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 17, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The first episode of The Night Of (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD), the HBO mini-series created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian and acclaimed author and screenwriter Richard Price, plunges the audience into the skin of a Nasir “Naz” Khan (Riz Ahmed), a...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 13, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
To Live and Die in L.A.: Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) (1985) has aged well. While on the one hand you can hold it up as the quintessential expression of the era’s music video aesthetics and sleek, slick style, it’s also a...
