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 Classic: Special editions of ‘Midnight Run’ and ‘Road House’ and sixties cult movies ‘Modesty Blaise’ and ‘Wild in the Streets’

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...

Videophiled Noir III: ‘Try and Get Me’ and the 1946 ‘The Chase’ restored

by Sean Axmaker | Jul 11, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

A couple of months back I reviewed two Film Noir Foundation restorations of orphaned films—that is, films that were produced independently, outside of the studio system, by entities that no longer existed. With no one left to protect and preserve them, they fell into...

Videophiled Cult: ‘Dead Pigeon’ restored, ‘Dolemite’ remastered, ‘Bride of Re-Animator’ revived, ‘The Trip’ revisited

by Sean Axmaker | May 16, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD), a quasi-New Wave spoof of the kind of detective yarns that Hollywood pumped out in the forties and fifties, is one of the most obscure films by Samuel Fuller, the idiosyncratic American auteur famous for melding...

Videophiled Blu-ray Classics: John Huston’s WWII documentaries, ‘The Vikings,’ ‘Passage to Marseilles,’ and ‘Deep in My Heart’

by Sean Axmaker | Mar 18, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Let There Be Light (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD) – John Huston, like so many members of the Hollywood community, offered his talents to the armed services after Pearl Harbor. He was assigned to the Army Signal Corps, where he made four films. This disc features all four...