by Sean Axmaker | Dec 13, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
To Live and Die in L.A.: Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) (1985) has aged well. While on the one hand you can hold it up as the quintessential expression of the era’s music video aesthetics and sleek, slick style, it’s also a...
by Danny Miller | Jan 15, 2014 | Interviews
In order to avoid a dreaded X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to have been removed William Friedkin’s 1980 film Cruising. Inspired by the mythology that exists about that footage, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborated on...
by Sean Axmaker | Jan 6, 2014 | News
William Friedkin spent years trying to untangle the studio rights that kept his 1977 film Sorcerer in limbo. The film, a remake of Henri-George Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear co-produced by Paramount and Universal, was a financial flop upon release but its...