Videophiled: Sully, Florence, American Honey, and Suicide Squad – From hero to villains

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...

Videophiled: ‘Hell or High Water,’ ‘Don’t Think Twice,’ and ‘The Intervention’

by Sean Axmaker | Dec 7, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Hell or High Water (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) is as good an American drama as you’ll see this year. Jeff Bridges stars as a Texas Ranger on the trail of a pair of bank robbers and his playfully crusty performance as a laconic frontier lawman on the verge of...

Videophiled: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ and ‘Captain Fantastic’

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 2, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Star Trek Beyond (Paramount, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, 4K Ultra HD, DVD, Digital, VOD) is the third feature in the “when they were young” reboot of the franchise and the first one since J.J. Abrams left Federation space for a galaxy long ago and far, far away....

Videophiled Classics: The Marx Brothers, early Douglas Sirk, and Gregory Peck on Blu-ray

by Sean Axmaker | Oct 22, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (Universal, Blu-ray) presents the respective Blu-ray debuts of five classics films starring the four original Marx Brothers: Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo. They made their film debut in the cinematically stiff but...

Videophiled TVD: The debut seasons of ‘Blindspot,’ ‘Underground,’ and ‘The Magicians,’ and the ‘X-Files’ event

by Sean Axmaker | Aug 23, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Blindspot: The Complete First Season (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD) is the signature high concept network show of the 2015-2016 TV season. It opens with a doozy of a hook—a mysterious bag is left in Times Square, the cops clear the normally crowded spot (which gives us one of...