by Sean Axmaker | Aug 18, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection (Arrow, Blu-ray+DVD) presents four films starring Meiko Kaji as Nami Matsushima, aka Scorpion, a woman framed for a crime she didn’t commit and tossed into a brutal prison with sadistic guards, a warden...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 28, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
La Chienne (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), the second sound film by Jean Renoir, is arguably his first masterpiece and it shows Renoir already using sound both subtly and creatively back in 1931. Adapted from a novel by Georges de La Fouchardière, it stars Michel Simon as...
by Sean Axmaker | May 27, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
John Dillinger was the most notorious of the Depression-era gangsters and his exploits (and attendant newspaper coverage) made him a romantic anti-hero to many of the folks who felt betrayed by the bankers and businessmen of the country. Dillinger (Arrow,...
by Sean Axmaker | May 16, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD), a quasi-New Wave spoof of the kind of detective yarns that Hollywood pumped out in the forties and fifties, is one of the most obscure films by Samuel Fuller, the idiosyncratic American auteur famous for melding...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 20, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
The Revenant (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K, Digital HD) has been called a revenge movie, which is true enough. Leonardo DiCaprio is Hugh Glass, a real-life 19th century mountain man and guide whose story inspired legends, books, and at least one previous film (Man in the...