by Danny Miller | Mar 21, 2017 | Features, What's Hot
When screen legend John Barrymore declares a 12-year-old girl he worked with as “Hollywood’s greatest actress,” you can’t help but take notice. Born 90 years ago today, classic movie fans remember Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord, Katharine Hepburn’s precocious sister...
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 | Oct 30, 2016 | Features, What's Hot
Blood and Black Lace (Arrow/MVD, Blu-ray+DVD) What Have You Done to Solange? (Arrow/MVD, Blu-ray+DVD) Death Walks Twice: Two Films by Luciano Ercoli (Arrow/MVD, Blu-ray+DVD) Killer Dames: Two Gothic Chillers by Emilio P. Miraglia (Arrow/MVD, Blu-ray+DVD) Edgar Allan...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 25, 2016 | Features, Home Viewing, What's Hot
Pioneers of African-American Cinema (Kino, Blu-ray, DVD) – The legacy of African-American filmmaking—specifically films made by and for African-American audiences before Hollywood integrated its casts and gave leading roles to African-American actors—is largely...
by Danny Miller | Sep 19, 2016 | Features, What's Hot
Like so many people who grew up with The Sound of Music, I was very sad to hear of Charmian Carr’s death this weekend at the age of 73. Carr played Liesl Von Trapp, the oldest daughter in the classic 1965 film The Sound of Music, a film that is still beloved by...
