by Sean Axmaker | Apr 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Son of Saul (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) drops the viewer into the horror of the Holocaust with its first images. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Sonderkommando, chosen from the prisoners of a concentration camp to work in the gas chambers, and we are plunged into his crushing...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 5, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Sicario (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), a violent, chaotic, adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war on the American border with Mexico, is a film that constantly seems to be spinning out of control. That’s not entirely by design, I...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 26, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: 40th Anniversary Edition (Sony, Blu-ray) – After a career of inspired skit comedy, the unbalanced minds of Monty Python pounded the Knights of the Round Table into their own skewed square hole for their first “real” feature film (I’m...
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...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 18, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Lambert & Stamp (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD) are Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. There’s no reason you’d know their names unless you are steeped in the minutia of the sixties British rock scene. No, they’re not some forgotten rock duo, at least...