by Sean Axmaker | Sep 22, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Raising Cain: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray) – Jenny (Lolita Davidovich, all soft curves and dreamy smiles) is married to “the perfect man,” says her best friend Sarah (Mel Harris). At first glance Carter (John Lithgow) seems exactly...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 20, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Chimes at Midnight (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) has been difficult to see under any circumstances for at least the last three decades. It suffered from distribution issues during its original release (a woefully misguided pan by New York Times film critic Bosley...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 17, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
The superhero is the new western hero. Just as in the 1940s and 1950s, when the western was the defining American genre in theaters and on TV, comic book heroes now dominate the big screen and increasingly the small screen. And where the Marvel Comics Universe rules...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 7, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Midnight Run: Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory Select, Blu-ray) – The midnight run of Martin Brest’s 1988 action comedy refers to what is supposed to be an easy job for skip tracer and bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro). He’s hired to...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 2, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
In the past few years, Australian TV mysteries have started finding favor with American audiences who favor the British TV mystery style to American shows. The Australian shows are interesting in that they share a similar judicial and police structure but have their...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 25, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
3 Bad Men (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray, DVD) – After John Ford had a major hit with his epic of westward expansion The Iron Horse, he returned to the old west and the theme of the settling of the frontier two years later with 3 Bad Men (1926). George O’Brien...