by Sean Axmaker | Oct 22, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (Universal, Blu-ray) presents the respective Blu-ray debuts of five classics films starring the four original Marx Brothers: Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo. They made their film debut in the cinematically stiff but...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 16, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The original 1942 Cat People (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) was made on a low budget for RKO’s B-movie unit, the first in an amazing series of B-horror films from producer Val Lewton that transcended its origins. It’s a masterpiece of mood and psychological...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 15, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Samuel Fuller writes and directs Fixed Bayonets! (Kino Classics, Blu-ray), a Korean War platoon drama set in snowy winter mountains. The small-scale production focuses on a small squad of American soldiers ordered to hold a mountain pass while their division retreats...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 4, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Johnny Guitar: Olive Signature (Olive, Blu-ray, DVD) – Joan Crawford’s Vienna is the most masculine of women western heroes. A former saloon girl who earned her way to owning her own gambling house, she’s a mature woman with a history and she’s not...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 29, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Dekalog (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) Krzysztof Kieslowski is best known for his lush, plush art-house Three Colors trilogy, a celebration of grand emotions from beautiful people, but the The Dekalog (1989), an ambitions ten-part project made for Polish TV, is...
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...