by Sean Axmaker | Aug 23, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Blindspot: The Complete First Season (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD) is the signature high concept network show of the 2015-2016 TV season. It opens with a doozy of a hook—a mysterious bag is left in Times Square, the cops clear the normally crowded spot (which gives us one of...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 18, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection (Arrow, Blu-ray+DVD) presents four films starring Meiko Kaji as Nami Matsushima, aka Scorpion, a woman framed for a crime she didn’t commit and tossed into a brutal prison with sadistic guards, a warden...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 3, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Confirmation (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) – It’s been 25 years since the congress held hearings over the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court when accusations of sexual harassment were raised after congressional aides contacted Professor Anita Hill, a law...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 26, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
A Touch of Zen (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), King Hu’s romantic chivalry adventure, is a masterpiece of Hong Kong cinema, a magnificent epic with grand battles fought with the grace of a ballet with swords, and the most significant cinematic inspiration for Ang...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 21, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
I’ve been remiss in my Twilight Time coverage. It is one of my favorite Blu-ray labels and has been quietly but expertly releasing beautiful Blu-ray editions of (almost exclusively) classic and contemporary American films. Over the last couple of years, Twilight...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 11, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
A couple of months back I reviewed two Film Noir Foundation restorations of orphaned films—that is, films that were produced independently, outside of the studio system, by entities that no longer existed. With no one left to protect and preserve them, they fell into...