1998 – Stream On Demand

Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton star in Sam Raimi's thriller

‘A Simple Plan’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Crime, DVD, film noir, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/29/2022 Sean Axmaker

Sam Raimi directs this quietly desperate thriller of greed and paranoia in a small mountain town, starring Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton.

Jeff Bridges is the Dude in 'The Big Lebowski' from Joel and Ethan Coen.

Last chance: ‘The Big Lebowski’ abides on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, National Film Registry, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jeff Bridges stars as the bowler/stoner/free spirit slacker reluctantly turned detective in the cult comedy by the Coen Bros. It’s, you know, pretty groovy, man.

Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh in the film by Orson Welles

‘Touch of Evil’ – Orson Welles on the border on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 08/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh star in Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic.

Will Smith is an ‘Enemy of the State’ on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Peacock, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Tony Scott directs the slick conspiracy cyberthriller but Gene Hackman owns it as the veteran NSA agent gone underground who takes on the new blood with old school skills.

George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez are ‘Out of Sight’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Essential Viewing, Peacock, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Steven Soderbergh turns Elmore Leonard’s delicious pulp novel into a sexy and stylish crime classic with grown-uip romance and movie star power.

Last chance: Paul Schrader’s ‘Affliction’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Last chance, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Paul Schrader made his mark on American cinema revealing the scarred psyches of American men trying to reconcile the contradictions of masculine fantasy and social reality, from his screenplays for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to his own movies, beginning with Blue Collar. Affliction (1998), adapted from the novel by Russell Banks, is his most […]

‘Halloween H20: 20 Years Later’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/29/2021 Sean Axmaker

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) – The legacy of the horror movie sequel was nicely summed up in Scream by Jaime Kennedy’s film geek character: more bodies, more elaborate deaths, more gore. Director Steve Miner (a veteran of two Friday the 13th sequels), star Jamie Lee Curtis, and company took the high road in […]

‘From the Earth to the Moon’ on HBO Now

!Featured, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Emmy Award, historical, miniseries, SVOD 07/18/2019 Sean Axmaker

The history of the American space race is presented in terms both reverential and mortal in From the Earth to the Moon(1998), the sweeping Tom Hanks produced mini-series made for HBO. The debut episode “Can We Do This?,” directed by Hanks, is a quick survey of the birth of the space program from behind the […]