by Sean Axmaker | Jan 1, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The death of Blu-ray and DVD has apparently been prematurely called. Streaming and cable VOD still dominates home viewing but Redbox and other kiosk-based disc vendors have kept disc rentals alive (if not quite robust) and Blu-ray remains the format of choice for...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 20, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Bunny Lake Is Missing (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – In the late 1950s and early 1960s, no American director melded classic Hollywood style and cool modern European elegance better than producer/director Otto Preminger. His handsome films are celebrations of...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 25, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Hangmen Also Die (Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD) is Fritz Lang’s fictionalized take on a real-life historical event: the only successful assassination of a major Nazi commander by the underground resistance in occupied Europe. Reinhard Heydrich, who earned the nickname...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 21, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Flicker Alley releases two more collections of classic silent comedies. Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies 1916-1917 (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray+DVD) collects the greatest run of comedy shorts in Chaplin’s career in newly restored and remastered editions, and The Mack...
by Sean Axmaker | May 15, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Blazing Saddles: 40th Anniversary (Warner, Blu-ray) Years ago, when singer Frankie Laine was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, he confessed that when he was engaged to record the theme song to Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles (1974), he was not...