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 | 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 | Jul 21, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
I’ve been remiss in my Twilight Time coverage. It is one of my favorite Blu-ray labels and has been quietly but expertly releasing beautiful Blu-ray editions of (almost exclusively) classic and contemporary American films. Over the last couple of years, Twilight...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 13, 2016 | Home Viewing, Reviews, What's Hot
Losing Ground (Milestone, Blu-ray, DVD) – If you’ve never heard of American playwright and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, don’t feel bad. At least not for yourself. Collins succumbed to cancer in 1988 at the age of 46 after completing just one feature. The...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 10, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Big Heat (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) is one of the masterpieces of film noir, a film of subdued style, underplayed brutality, and a well of rage boiling under a surface of calm corruption. Directed by Fritz Lang on a modest budget, the 1953 crime drama stars Glenn...
