1975 – Stream On Demand

Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher star in the film directed by Milos Forman

Leaving soon: ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, literary adaptation, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/20/2023 Sean Axmaker

This superb adaptation of Ken Kesey’s counterculture novel won five Oscars, including best picture, director Milos Forman, actor Jack Nicholson, and actress Louise Fletcher.

Robert Redford survives ‘Three Days of the Condor’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Paramount+, Politics, spies and espionage, SVOD, thriller 03/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Faye Dunaway costars in this 1970s conspiracy thriller from director Sydney Pollack shot on New York streets and locations.

Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in John Huston's adaptation

Leaving soon: John Huston’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, historical, literary adaptation, Max, SVOD 03/18/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in Huston’s magnificent adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s story, a larger than life tale on a glorious canvas.

Leaving soon: Romy Schneider discovers ‘That Most Important Thing: Love’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, International Cinema 02/19/2023 Sean Axmaker

The first French feature by Polish expatriate Andrzej Zulawski, is a romantic drama of frustrated desires, frail relationships and explosive passions.

Delphine Seyrig stars in the landmark film by Chantal Akerman

‘Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ – the greatest ever on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Criterion Collecton, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, International Cinema, Max, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, socially aware cinema, SVOD 12/02/2022 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Filmmaker Chantal Akerman and actor Delphine Seyrig create an epic portrait of a life that has rarely been seen on screen in the quotidian masterpiece. It was voted the greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.

Rudy Ray Moore is the original ‘Dolemite’ on Criterion Channel, Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Action, African-American filmmakers, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Hoopla, Kanopy, SVOD 06/07/2022 Sean Axmaker

Comedian and proto-rapper Moore stars in this cult movie as the street hustler, pimp, and all around ghetto superhero who takes on drug dealers with his all-girl army of kung fu killers.

Lynn Lowery in David Cronenberg's 'Shivers.'

David Cronenberg’s ‘Shivers’ free on Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Halloween, Hoopla, horror, SVOD, thriller 10/15/2021 Sean Axmaker

This low-budget early feature from Cronenberg is a subversive horror film that charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos.

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfus, and Robert Shaw star in Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster

‘Jaws’ – the original summer blockbuster on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Netflix, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller 09/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

Steven Spielberg’s meticulously-directed, tension-filled, career-redefining thrill machine is as effective today as it was in 1975 when it became a pop culture sensation.

Last chance: Sean Connery in ‘The Wind and the Lion’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, Last chance, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 04/24/2021 Sean Axmaker

The Wind and the Lion (1975), the sophomore feature of director John Milius, is a small-scale version of the kind of grand historical epic that blossomed in the 1960s. Set in 1904 Morocco and loosely based on a true historical incident, the 1972 historical adventure stars Sean Connery as Berber chieftain and rebel leader Mulai […]

David Hemmings in the giallo horror classic by Dario Argento

Dario Argento’s ‘Deep Red’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, giallo, Halloween, horror, International Cinema, SVOD, thriller 10/10/2020 Sean Axmaker

Deep Red (Profundo Rosso, Italy, 1975), Dario Argento’s fifth film and his fourth giallo (his non-horror interim film Le Cinque giornate remains unreleased in the U.S.), stars David Hemmings as an American jazz pianist and music teacher in Italy. He witnesses a bloody murder in an apartment window and rushes up from the street to […]