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...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 25, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Kamikaze ’89 (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) – Rainer Werner Fassbinder takes a rare onscreen lead in what would be his last screen appearance in Wolfgang Kremm’s 1982 new wave science fiction cop drama. Based on a satirical science fiction novel by Swedish...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 19, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Private Property (Cinelicious, Blu-ray+DVD) – Put this 1960 film in the “Lost and Found” category. The directorial debut by Leslie Stevens, a playwright and screenwriter and protégé of Orson Welles, it’s a neat little sexually-charged psychological...