1990 – Stream On Demand

Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘Days of Being Wild’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, SVOD 06/14/2022 Sean Axmaker

Hong Kong superstars Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, and Andy Lau play lost and disaffected young adults in the first woozy masterpiece from director Wong Kar-Wai

'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 06/11/2022 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.

Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Paul Sorvino, and Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese's gangster classic.

Martin Scorsese’s ‘GoodFellas’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Crime, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, gangsters, HBO Max, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci star in Scorsese’s violent, dynamic, exhilarating mob thriller, the greatest American gangster movie since Coppola’s ‘The Godfather.’

‘Edward Scissorhands’ – Tim Burton’s suburban fairy tale on Disney+ and Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Christmas, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, high school, Hulu, Kid Stuff, Paramount+, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Johnny Depp is sweetly haunting as the innocent outcast in Burton’s magical and melancholy fairy tale for the modern world.

Joe Dante’s zany ‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, HBO Max, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/08/2022 Sean Axmaker

Joe Dante sets the gremlins loose in New York City in this rare sequel that is funnier than the original.

‘Tremors’ – Prehistoric monsters in the modern west on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, giant monsters, Halloween, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 12/09/2021 Sean Axmaker

Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward star in this lively monster movie, a creature feature by way of a contemporary western with offbeat humor, eccentric characters and a clever twist on a classic genre.

Clive Barker’s restored ‘Nightbreed’ on Peacock and Shudder

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Free, Halloween, Hoopla, horror, Peacock, Shudder, SVOD, thriller 10/26/2021 Sean Axmaker

Clive Barker adapts his own work in this celebration of misfits and monsters in a weird story of fear and prejudice filled with Biblical references and mythic resonance.

Alec Baldwin in 'Miami Blues,' directed by Geroge Armitage.

‘Miami Blues’ on Prime Video and free on Hoopla

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Hoopla, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/02/2021 Sean Axmaker

Fred Ward is perfect as Hoke Moseley in what should have been the launch of a funky crime movie franchise from the Charles Willeford novels, yet Alec Baldwin steals the film as the psychopath he’s hunting down.

Marlon Brando stars in the Oscar-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ trilogy

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, gangsters, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/26/2021 Sean Axmaker

“It’s not personal. It’s strictly business.” Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s bestseller remains the great American epic of the immigrant dream turned family business. Al Pacino stars as Michael Corleone, the clean-cut white sheep and patriotic soldier boy son of New York Godfather Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando in an Oscar–winning performance), and this […]