by Sean Axmaker | Oct 4, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Johnny Guitar: Olive Signature (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD) – Joan Crawford’s Vienna is the most masculine of women western heroes. A former saloon girl who earned her way to owning her own gambling house, she’s a mature woman with a history and she’s not...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 29, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Dekalog (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) Krzysztof Kieslowski is best known for his lush, plush art-house Three Colors trilogy, a celebration of grand emotions from beautiful people, but the The Dekalog (1989), an ambitions ten-part project made for Polish TV, is...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 27, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
The Neon Demon (Broadgreen, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – “I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t write… no real talent. But I’m pretty, and I can make money off pretty.” We first meet Jesse (Elle Fanning), a 16-year-old girl from Middle...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 25, 2016 | Features, Home Viewing, What's Hot
Pioneers of African-American Cinema (Kino, Blu-ray, DVD) – The legacy of African-American filmmaking—specifically films made by and for African-American audiences before Hollywood integrated its casts and gave leading roles to African-American actors—is largely...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 20, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Chimes at Midnight (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) has been difficult to see under any circumstances for at least the last three decades. It suffered from distribution issues during its original release (a woefully misguided pan by New York Times film critic Bosley...