Videophiled TVD: Gods and Monsters edition – Preacher, Constantine, Teen Wolf

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...

Videophiled Noirvember: The rural noir of ‘On Dangerous Ground’ and ‘Road House’ with Ida Lupino

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 29, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

On Dangerous Ground (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) (1952), directed by Nicholas Ray from a script he developed with A.I. Bezzerides and producer John Houseman, opens on the urgent yet fractured dramatic score by Bernard Herrmann, a theme that rushes forward anxiously,...

Videophiled Blu-ray Classics: John Huston’s WWII documentaries, ‘The Vikings,’ ‘Passage to Marseilles,’ and ‘Deep in My Heart’

by Sean Axmaker | Mar 18, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Let There Be Light (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD) – John Huston, like so many members of the Hollywood community, offered his talents to the armed services after Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the Army Signal Corps, where he made four films. This disc features all four...

Videophiled TVD: ‘Better Call Saul,’ ‘Peaky Blinders,’ the end of ‘Hannibal,’ the beginning of ‘Game of Thrones,’ and more TV on disc

by Sean Axmaker | Dec 13, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Better Call Saul: Season One (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD) – Bob Odenkirk is Jimmy McGill, a struggling lawyer trying to get both respect and clients in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in this prequel series to the award-winning Breaking Bad. He was Saul Goodman in that show, the...

Videophiled Classics: Dick Powell noir ‘Murder My Sweet’ and ‘Pitfall’ and Alain Resnais’ ‘Je t’aime, je t’aime’

by Sean Axmaker | Dec 5, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Murder My Sweet (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) is not just the most faithful screen version of Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled hero Philip Marlowe from the classic era of film noir, it’s also one of the best. Dick Powell, the 1930s crooner and boy next door romantic...