by Sean Axmaker | Dec 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Another week off, this time for Thanksgiving, so I’m catching up on two weeks of New Releases. Mississippi Grind (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) plays like a seventies character drama, a meandering road movie through the byways of American characters who populate the...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 15, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
British filmmaker Ken Loach has spent his long, rich career taking on social and political issues in films with compassionate portraits of everyday citizens struggling to get by in difficult situations and provocative criticisms of injustice and inequities. Hidden...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 20, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Given the title of Killer Cop (Raro / Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD) a 1975 poliziotteschi from Italy, you might expect a rogue cop thriller, and ambitious young Commissario Matteo Rolandi (Claudio Cassinelli), a rising officer on a major drug case, certainly has good...
by Sean Axmaker | May 27, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Man, Pride and Vengeance (Blue Underground, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – There were hundreds of spaghetti westerns produced by Italian studios in the sixties and early seventies. Only a small percentage of them were particularly good, and fewer still genuinely great....
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 22, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix), written and directed by California-based and Iranian-born filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, is a genre film with a fresh approach and a distinctive cultural texture: a vampire movie from a female...