by Sean Axmaker | Aug 25, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
3 Bad Men (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD) – After John Ford had a major hit with his epic of westward expansion The Iron Horse, he returned to the old west and the theme of the settling of the frontier two years later with 3 Bad Men (1926). George O’Brien...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 10, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Big Heat (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) is one of the masterpieces of film noir, a film of subdued style, underplayed brutality, and a well of rage boiling under a surface of calm corruption. Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn...
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...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 25, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Hangmen Also Die (Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD) is Fritz Lang’s fictionalized take on a real-life historical event: the only successful assassination of a major Nazi commander by the underground resistance in occupied Europe. Reinhard Heydrich, who earned the nickname...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 21, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Flicker Alley releases two more collections of classic silent comedies. Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies 1916-1917 (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray+DVD) collects the greatest run of comedy shorts in Chaplin’s career in newly restored and remastered editions, and The Mack...
