Videophiled: New deluxe editions of ‘Punch Drunk Love,’ ‘To Live and Die in L.A.,’ ‘Rabid,’ and more

by Sean Axmaker | Dec 13, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

To Live and Die in L.A.: Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) (1985) has aged well. While on the one hand you can hold it up as the quintessential expression of the era’s music video aesthetics and sleek, slick style, it’s also a...

Videophiled: ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ of ‘My Golden Days’ – Remembrances of days past

by Sean Axmaker | Jul 13, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

Everybody Wants Some!! (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – Richard Linklater describes this film as the “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, his 1993 coming of age (or perhaps more accurately coming of self) classic. Set four years after Dazed and...

Videophiled: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘A Married Woman’ and new editions of ‘Manhunter’ and Buster Keaton’s short films

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...

Videophiled: ‘Deadpool’ and ‘The Witch’

by Sean Axmaker | May 18, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot

Deadpool (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD, 4K UltraHD, VOD) – Irreverent, outrageous, and strewn with self-aware commentary and dark humor, Deadpool is the polar opposite of the self-serious Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It is raunchy and gory and features a...

Videophiled International: ‘L’Inhumaine’ from France, two Fritz Lang silent classics, three from the Taviani Brothers

by Sean Axmaker | Mar 3, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

The 1923 French feature L’Inhumaine (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray), which translates to The Inhuman Woman, is not exactly about a femme fatale, though singer and social diva Claire Lescot (played by real-life opera star Georgette Leblanc) does enjoy the power she...