by Sean Axmaker | Jun 22, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
Midnight Special (2016) begins in the dark, literally and figuratively. Two men in an anonymous motel room keep the shades drawn awaiting the cover of night. There’s a boy wearing goggles and reading comic books with a flashlight under the covers. It may be part...
by Sean Axmaker | May 13, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
In a Lonely Place (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) hasn’t much to do with the Dorothy B. Hughes novel in which is was ostensibly based beyond the title (one of the most evocative in noir history), the Los Angeles setting, and the murder of a young woman that puts our...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Son of Saul (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) drops the viewer into the horror of the Holocaust with its first images. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Sonderkommando, chosen from the prisoners of a concentration camp to work in the gas chambers, and we are plunged into his crushing...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 15, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Only Angels Have Wings (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – If you love movies, I mean really love the glory of Hollywood moviemaking and star power and the joys of wondrous stories, then you love Howard Hawks. And if you love Howard Hawks, then you must love Only Angels Have...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 10, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Big Heat (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) is one of the masterpieces of film noir, a film of subdued style, underplayed brutality, and a well of rage boiling under a surface of calm corruption. Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn...