by Sean Axmaker | Dec 31, 2016 | Features, What's Hot
We’ve been hearing people pronounce the death of DVD and Blu-ray for years now. You’d never know it from the astonishing wealth of Blu-ray debuts, restored movies, and lovingly-produced special editions in 2016. The sales numbers are way down from a decade...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 7, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Midnight Run: Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory Select, Blu-ray) – The midnight run of Martin Brest’s 1988 action comedy refers to what is supposed to be an easy job for skip tracer and bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro). He’s hired to...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 18, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection (Arrow, Blu-ray+DVD) presents four films starring Meiko Kaji as Nami Matsushima, aka Scorpion, a woman framed for a crime she didn’t commit and tossed into a brutal prison with sadistic guards, a warden...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 4, 2016 | Reviews, What's Hot
The Lobster (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) – Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos describes his English language debut as his film about love (following Dogtooth, his film on life, and Alps, on death). Which is not necessarily to call it a love story. It is, in its own way,...
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...
