by Sean Axmaker | Jul 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Danny Collins (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD) – “The following is kind of based on a true story a little bit.” A very little bit, it turns out, but it is a great premise. Danny Collins was a musical phenom of the seventies turned pop music legend who...
by Sean Axmaker | Feb 27, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Before Easy Rider there was The Wild Angels (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD), directed by Roger Corman and starring Peter Fonda as Heavenly Blues, the leader of a California chapter of Hell’s Angles. This is a gang of disaffected drop-outs and scruffy road rats who live to...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 17, 2015 | Home Viewing
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) – Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted his own stage play for this modern twist on The Women, the great all-woman Hollywood classic of sex and social conventions in high society. Margit Carstensen is successful...
by Sean Axmaker | Dec 23, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The timing wasn’t planned but it is fortuitous. The Fortune (Twilight Time, Blu-ray), a screwball comedy directed by Mike Nichols, debuts on Blu-ray a month after Nichols passed away. The 1975 production is set in the 1920s and stars Warren Beatty as a con man...
