by Sean Axmaker | Nov 8, 2016 | Features, What's Hot
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Edition (Sony, Blu-ray) Boxcar Bertha (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) Martin Scorsese’ incendiary 1976 masterpiece of alienation and anger and urban anxiety may be the most maverick vision of seventies American cinema. It is certainly one...
by Sean Axmaker | Jun 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Angie Tribeca: The Complete First Season (Warner, DVD) – I loved Police Squad, the short-lived TV comedy from the creators of Airplane! that spoofed TV cop shows with an anything goes approach. Only six episodes were made before the networks gave up on it. This was...
by Danny Miller | Mar 13, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
As far as I’m concerned, some of the greatest films ever made were a result of the partnership between Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988) whose production company was known as The Archers. The British filmmakers collaborated over a period of...
by Jeff Michael Vice | Apr 1, 2014 | Reviews
The Raid 2 makes a strong case that it’s no longer possible for a film to get an NC-17 rating based on violence alone. After all, if any film were to receive the MPAA’s so-called “rating of doom” it would be for this martial-arts/action-thriller in which blood...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 25, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount, Blu-ray+DVD Combo, DVD, Digital HD, On Demand) is, to my mind, the best of the Martin Scorsese / Leonardo DiCaprio collaborations to date. DiCaprio burns through the role of real-life financial fraudster Jordan Belfort, a born...
