Videophiled: Oscar winner ‘Selma’ and nominee ‘Mr. Turner,’ Liv Ullman directs ‘Miss Julie,’ the original ‘Mad Max’

by Sean Axmaker | May 5, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Selma (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), directed by Ava Duvernay (who also rewrote Paul Webb’s screenplay without credit), takes on the 1965 march led by Dr. Martin Luther King through Alabama as a benchmark moment in the fight for voting rights and, more...

Videophiled: ‘Miami Blues,’ an American ‘Breathless,’ ‘Cooley High,’ ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ and more classics, cult films, and other Blu-ray debuts

by Sean Axmaker | May 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Miami Blues (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) should have been the first film in funky crime movie franchise. It’s based on the first of four novels by modern hardboiled crime author Charles Willeford featuring Miami police detective Hoke Moseley; adapted and directed...

Videophiled: ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ and ‘Escape from New York’

by Sean Axmaker | Apr 22, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix), written and directed by California-based and Iranian-born filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, is a genre film with a fresh approach and a distinctive cultural texture: a vampire movie from a female...

Videophiled: ‘The Babadook’ and ‘Big Eyes,’ Godard in 3D, classic Rohmer, and the end of ‘Foyle’s War’

by Sean Axmaker | Apr 14, 2015 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

The Babadook (Scream Factory, Blu-ray, DVD), one of the best and most original horror films in years, raises goosebumps with old-fashioned scares, relatable characters, and a provocative psychological foundation. Amelia (Essie Kent) is a single mother who is still in...

Videophiled Classic: Halloween Disc Pick – ‘Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut’

by Sean Axmaker | Oct 30, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut: Special Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray+DVD Combo) Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut: 3-Disc Limited Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray+DVD Combo) Clive Barker’s 1990 film Nightbreed, adapted from his novel Cabal, was...