1989 – Stream On Demand

Patrick Swayze will see out in ‘Road House’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

Sam Elliott and Ben Gazzara costar in this swaggering, bare-knuckle action pulp about a barroom bouncer who brings Zen philosophy to his ass-whuppins.

Miguel Sandoval, Spike Lee, and Ossie Davis

Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, African-American cinema, African-American filmmakers, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/02/2023 Sean Axmaker

Spike Lee’s vibrant, vital, thoroughly accomplished third feature is a provocative and intelligent exploration of race and racism that opens with a call to action and ends with a ferocious cry in the face of injustice.

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are Bill and Ted in the cult slacker comedy

‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ – Keanu Reeves begins on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, family friendly, feel good movies, high school, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are the sweet high school underachievers and would-be rocker stars who travel through time and meet death in their comic adventures.

The ‘Alexandria’ Trilogy – Youseff Chahine’s autobiographical epic on Netflix

!Featured, art and artists, biographical, DVD, film history, International Classics, movies about movies, Netflix 11/28/2022 Sean Axmaker

Whether or not Youseff Chahine’s autobiographical ‘Alexandria’ trilogy are the greatest films of his career, they are in many ways his crowning achievement: his love letter to the cinema he loved so much.

‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ – Japanese cyberpunk on Criterion Channel, Shudder, and more

!Featured, AMC+, Arrow, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, International Cinema, Kanopy, Science Fiction, Shudder, SVOD 10/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Shinya Tsukamoto’s manga-influenced cyberpunk vision reimagines the marriage of flesh and technology as a surreal waking dream.

'Back to the Future' and its sequels with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd

‘Back to the Future’ trilogy on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Kid Stuff, Peacock, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, time travel 10/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Michael J. Fox goes backwards, forwards, and sideways through time as Marty McFly in a souped-up DeLorean in Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 time travel comedy and its two sequels.

‘Sidewalk Stories’ – a modern silent movie on Max

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, American Independent Cinema, art and artists, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, Max, silent film, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/07/2022 Sean Axmaker

Charles Lane directs and stars as a homless street artist in this socially aware American Independent comedy set and shot on the streets of New York City.

‘Seinfeld’ – Much ado about nothing on Netflix

!Featured, Comedy, DVD, Emmy Award, Netflix, satire, Streaming TV, SVOD 10/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

The legendary sitcom about nothing became a pop culture phenomenon, the top rated show on TV, an Emmy winner, and yada yada yada.

Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman in TV's original modern fairy tale romance 'Beauty and the Beast'

TV’s original ‘Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Cult TV, DVD, Emmy Award, fantasy, Paramount+, Romance, Streaming TV 04/15/2021 Sean Axmaker

TV crime show and romantic fantasy meet as urban mythology in the original modern TV fairy tale starring Linda Hamilton as a beautiful crusading lawyer and Ron Perlman as a tender-hearted man-beast.

‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Have You Seen...?, Kid Stuff, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/24/2020 Sean Axmaker

Kiki’s Delivery Service (Japan, 1989) carries us into the experiences of a young witch as she charts her path in the real world. Sincere, spirited Kiki has turned thirteen, the age when witches leave the nest for a year of solo training. She’s ready to take on the world with her broomstick and her best […]