Videophiled TVD: more ‘Fargo,’ ‘Banshee,’ ‘Veep,’ and ‘Major Crimes’

by Sean Axmaker | Jun 20, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Fargo: Year Two (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD) – Made for the FX channel, the TV series Fargo is not an adaptation of the Oscar-winning film by Joel and Ethan Coen but it feels like it came from the same world. Each season is an original crime story that plays out in the winter...

Videophiled TVD: ‘Game of Thrones’ – Season Five and Steelbook Special Editions

by Sean Axmaker | Jun 19, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Game of Thrones: The Complete Fifth Season (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD) of HBO’s sprawling fantasy epic, adapted from the novel cycle by George R.R. Martin (who is a writer and producer on the show), features an ever-more complex web of alliances, betrayals,...

Videophiled TVD: The end – ‘Manhattan,’ ‘Mr Selfridge,’ ‘Strike Back,’ ‘Heroes Reborn’

by Sean Axmaker | Jun 2, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Manhattan: Season Two (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) covers more ground than the first season of the WGN original drama set at the Los Alamos military base where the atomic bomb was developed during World War II, both historically and thematically. William Petersen joins...

Videophiled TVD: Beginnings – ‘The Expanse,’ ‘Togetherness,’ ‘Mercy Street,’ and ’19-2′

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...

Interview: Director Jessica Edwards on the Brilliance That Is ‘Mavis!’

by Danny Miller | Feb 29, 2016 | Interviews, What's Hot

For gospel and R&B singer Mavis Staples, her music was more than just her profession — it became an important contribution to the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. From the freedom songs that marked the era along with hits like “I’ll Take You...