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 25, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Dog Soldiers: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray+DVD) – “If we engage the enemy, I expect nothing less than gratuitous violence from the lot of you.” Neil Marshall ransacks and revitalizes every cliché in the book in this howling good reworking of the...
by Sean Axmaker | May 20, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
American Sniper (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – For the past couple of decades, one-time screen superstar Clint Eastwood has been more active behind the camera than in front of it, plugging along with his old school filmmaking with a consistency that is hard to match....
by Sean Axmaker | May 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Miami Blues (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) should have been the first film in funky crime movie franchise. It’s based on the first of four novels by modern hardboiled crime author Charles Willeford featuring Miami police detective Hoke Moseley; adapted and directed...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 9, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Ride the Pink Horse (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – It wouldn’t be fair to call this film unknown—ask any die-hard film noir fan—but outside of classic movie buffs and noir aficionados, Ride the Pink Horse (1947) simply isn’t a familiar title. The film’s...