Videophiled TV: ‘Show Me a Hero,’ ‘Mr. Robot,’ ’12 Monkeys,’ and the rest of the best of recent TV on disc

by Sean Axmaker | Feb 12, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Show Me a Hero (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD), a six-hour HBO miniseries developed by David Simon (The Wire) and William F. Zorzi from the non-fiction book by Lisa Belkin and directed by Paul Haggis (with a subtlety and nuance I didn’t know he had in him), stars Oscar Isaac as...

Videophiled: John Ford’s ‘My Darling Clementine’ on Criterion, Polanski’s ‘Venus in Fur,’ and October horror releases

by Sean Axmaker | Oct 14, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

My Darling Clementine (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), John Ford’s sublime reinterpretation of the Wyatt Earp story and the Gunfight at OK Corral, rewrites history to become a mythic frontier legend and one of the most classically perfect westerns ever made. Henry Fonda...

Videophiled TVD: The troublesome debut of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and dramatic seasons of ‘Person of Interest’ and ‘Supernatural’

by Sean Axmaker | Sep 13, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete First Season (ABC, Blu-ray, DVD) is a problematic debut season. I think we can all agree on that. Critics have been less kind and fans more indulgent but the fact is, this series took most of the season to find its...

Videophiled TVD Binge Watch: ‘The Good Wife,’ ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ ‘Elementary’ and more

by Sean Axmaker | Aug 28, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

TV has changed radically in the last decade but even with cable and streaming rivals, split seasons and winter and spring debuts, September remains the launch of the new TV season and that means the previous seasons start to roll out on disc in August. There are...

Videophiled TVD: ‘Low Winter Sun,’ the Marx Brothers on TV, ‘The Blacklist’ and ‘Bitten’

by Sean Axmaker | Aug 14, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve dug into the TV on disc releases, due largely to the ambitious slate of classic movies and special editions I’ve been reviewing. But some interesting shows have debuted on disc recently. Here are the ones I had...