Tag: HBO

Veep: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray review

HBO Home Entertainment By Mike Bax “I feel like I’m on a life support machine, and they keep pulling the plug to charge their phones.” Amy (Anna Chlumsky) Also: Hagrid’s Nutsack Veep is one of those shows that is bittersweet. At ten episodes per season and each only a half hour running time, one tends…

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Silicon Valley: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray review

By Mike Bax HBO Home Entertainment I’m a three-foot dick. I’m covered in dust.” Richard Hendriks (Thomas Middleditch) It’s the new American dream – create something menial but tech-worthy, and then band a group of people together to nurture it and sell it all off for a gazillion dollars. And do it all before someone…

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Interview with Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice – June 30th, 2015

By Mike Bax Their love really IS cool. When compared to the median age of the members of Wolf Alice, I’m a dinosaur clocking in well past double their years. I say this only to illustrate that I was heavily into the UK shoegazer/guitar music of the early 1990s, and that I find the majority of…

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The Wire: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review

By Mike Bax “We’re building something here… and all the pieces matter.” Detective Lester Freamon The Wire, a show revered by genre fanatics the world over, has numerous wonderful quotes, but this one sums up the show itself from both a creative standpoint as much as a summary of the show itself. What creator David…

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Interview with Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran) Twin Peaks – July 23rd, 2014

#TBT Interview by Mike Bax CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution https://www.facebook.com/TwinPeaksTV https://www.facebook.com/cbshomeentertainment http://andthemissingpieces.tumblr.com https://www.facebook.com/welcometotwinpeaks Next week, Twin Peaks will see its first release on Blu-ray. CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution have prepared a ten-disc Blu-ray set dedicated to delivering the best possible Twin Peaks experience to fans of the…

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