Videophiled Foreign: ‘Crouching Tiger’ revisited, ‘Kamikaze’ Fassbinder, South Korean ‘Wailing,’ and more

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 25, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Kamikaze ’89 (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) – Rainer Werner Fassbinder takes a rare onscreen lead in what would be his last screen appearance in Wolfgang Kremm’s 1982 new wave science fiction cop drama. Based on a satirical science fiction novel by Swedish...

Videophiled: Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Violent Cop’ and ‘Boiling Point’

by Sean Axmaker | Oct 24, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Violent Cop (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) Boiling Point (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) Takeshi Kitano has a way of making stillness into tension in his crime films. In the opening shot of Violent Cop, Kitano’s 1990 directorial debut, the camera holds on the...

Videophiled: ‘X-Men Apocalypse’ and ‘Ghostbusters’ 2016

by Sean Axmaker | Oct 11, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot

X-Men Apocalypse (Fox, Blu-ray, 4K HD, DVD, VOD), the sixth in the official X-Men big screen franchise (the ninth if you count the Wolverine and Deadpool spin-offs) and the third film in the prequel trilogy, is cut to fit into the big screen mythos as carved out of...

Videophiled: Feral beauty in ‘The Neon Demon’ and Criterion presents ‘Blood Simple’

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...

Videophiled Blu-ray Debuts: Two by Rohmer, ‘Tenderness of the Wolves,’ and Ford’s ‘Hurricane’

by Sean Axmaker | Nov 12, 2015 | Home Viewing, News, What's Hot

The Marquise of O (Film Movement, Blu-ray, DVD) – After Eric Rohmer completed his “Six Moral Tales,” and before launching into the “Comedies and Proverbs,” he tackled two projects very different than anything else in career. The first of these,...