1968 – Stream On Demand

Charlton Heston vs. ‘Planet of the Apes’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Science Fiction, SVOD 04/14/2022 Sean Axmaker

The original 1968 film is a mix of pop sci-fi and kick-ass adventure done up with style by director Franklin J. Schaffner.

Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet in the Blake Edwards comedy

Peter Sellers joins ‘The Party’ free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, SVOD 03/27/2022 Sean Axmaker

Blake Edwards directed this hilarious modern sound version of a silent movie comedy between ‘Pink Panther’ movies

Antoine Doinel returns in Truffaut’s ‘Stolen Kisses’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, French New Wave, International Classics, SVOD 02/27/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jean-Pierre Leaud reprises the character he first played in the New Wave landmark ‘The 400 Blows’ in this new chapter in the quasi-autobiographical film cycle.

William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal debate the 1968 elections on ABC in 'Best of Enemies'

‘Best of Enemies’ – Buckley vs. Vidal on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Documentary, DVD, Election Special, Free, Hoopla, Kanopy, Politics, SVOD 08/09/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Best of Enemies (2015) carries the subtitle “Buckley vs. Vidal” and it is indeed a portrait of a rivalry, one that was presented on prime time network television at a time when there were three networks and TV news strived to be fair and balanced to a fault. In 1968, William F. Buckley was the […]

Jane Fonda stars in the campy psychedelic romp from director Roger Vadim

‘Barbarella’ – Sexy space camp on Amazon Prime and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Science Fiction, SVOD 01/09/2021 Sean Axmaker

Barbarella (1968), a campy psychedelic romp produced by Italian Dino de Laurentiis, directed by French eroticist Roger Vadim, adapted from a risqué French comic strip by American satirist Terry Southern, and featuring an international cast, was Buck Rogers reworked as a sex kitten in space for the 1960s culture of free love and pop art. […]

Duane Jones in the 1968 American horror classic by George Romero

‘Night of the Living Dead’ restored on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, HBO Max, horror, SVOD 10/18/2020 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Fifty years ago, commercial filmmaker George Romero marshaled the resources of his production company Latent Image and the talents of friends and colleagues to produce a low budget feature film in Pittsburgh, PA. The rest is, as they say, history. Night of the Living Dead (1968) is the first genuinely modern horror movie, shot more […]

Patrick McGoohan and Leo McKern in the cult TV classic

Patrick McGoohan is ‘The Prisoner’ in the cult series on IMDbTV

!Featured, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, British TV, Cult TV, DVD, IMDB TV, satire, Shout Factory TV, spies and espionage, Streaming TV, suspense, SVOD 11/21/2018 Sean Axmaker

Patrick McGoohan’s cerebral spy show and portrait of personal freedom as an existential prison has been proclaimed the greatest TV show of all time. It certainly pushed the boundaries of episodic TV storytelling when it debuted in 1968.

Christopher Lee in the horror film by Terence Fisher

‘The Devil’s Bride’ – Christopher Lee versus the Devil on DVD

!Featured, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, historical, horror, thriller 10/23/2018 Sean Axmaker

Christopher Lee, long the house villain of the horror films from England’s Hammer Films, takes a rare heroic turn in The Devil’s Bride (1968), also known in the U.S as The Devil Rides Out. Lee plays scholar and occultist Duc de Richleau, the kind of role that Peter Cushing had made his métier, as a […]