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 | Dec 12, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Game of Thrones: The Complete Season Six (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) – For five years the epic HBO historical fantasy series “Game of Thrones” has followed the storyline of author George R.R. Martin’s novels. Until season six, when the series took the story...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 11, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Penny Dreadful: The Final Season (Showtime, Blu-ray, DVD) – The third and final season of the Showtime series that reimagines the characters of 19th century British horror novels sharing the same London underworld brings the story of the tormented Vanessa Ives (the...
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,...
