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 | Jun 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Angie Tribeca: The Complete First Season (Warner, DVD) – I loved Police Squad, the short-lived TV comedy from the creators of Airplane! that spoofed TV cop shows with an anything goes approach. Only six episodes were made before the networks gave up on it. This was...
by Sean Axmaker | May 25, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
A Married Woman (Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD), subtitled “Fragments of a film shot in 1964,” is Jean-Luc Godard’s modern portrait of love and sex in the media-saturated sixties with Macha Méril in a role that was clearly meant for Godard’s wife and...
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...