by Sean Axmaker | Oct 16, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The original 1942 Cat People (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) was made on a low budget for RKO’s B-movie unit, the first in an amazing series of B-horror films from producer Val Lewton that transcended its origins. It’s a masterpiece of mood and psychological...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 27, 2015 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
The Brood (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – I’d seen David Cronenberg’s The Brood before watching the terrific new Criterion edition but it never really registered the way it did this time. Perhaps the quality of the presentation (newly remastered from a 2K...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 21, 2013 | Home Viewing
Tokyo Story (Criterion, Blu-ray+DVD Combo) is perhaps the definitive film by Yasujiro Ozu, the artist called the most “Japanese” of Japanese directors. Chishu Ryo (Ozu’s favorite performer) and Chieko Higashiyama star as an elderly couple in rural Japan who find a...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 14, 2013 | Editor's Picks, Home Viewing
The 1943 Jane Eyre (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) stars Joan Fontaine as Jane, the heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s classic gothic romance about a meek orphan hired by a brooding aristocrat to be governess to his young ward, but it’s Orson Welles who dominates this...
by Don Kaye | Nov 1, 2013 | Editor's Picks, Home Viewing
We’re in the middle of a bit of a John Carpenter renaissance at the moment, which can only be a good thing. Halloween was recently reissued in a gorgeous new Blu-ray transfer, while the past year has seen terrific special edition Blu-rays of films like Assault on...
