2010 – Stream On Demand

Jeff Bridges has a ‘Crazy Heart’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, music, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Bridges won an Oscar playing a country music figure on the downhill slide of a career in the drama from filmmaker Scott Cooper.

‘Point Blank’ – pulse-pounding French thriller on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Crime Cinema, DVD, International Cinema, SVOD, thriller 12/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

Gilles Lellouche and Roschdy Zem are wary allies forced to team up in this high energy crime thriller that opens in full sprint and stays in that adrenaline-pumping state to the end.

‘Tron: Legacy’ on Disney+

!Featured, Streaming Movies 12/16/2021 Sean Axmaker

Almost thirty years after the original video game movie, Disney returned to the cyberworld with Jeff Bridges back as the programming guru and Garrett Hedlund as his son.

‘Red’ – Bruce Willis is deadly funny on Peacock

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Peacock, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 12/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren costar in the action comedy about retired agents who prove that cunning, confidence and skill beats youth and arrogance.

‘Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, historical, Hoopla, International Cinema, martial arts, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

Donny Yen returns as the real-life Chinese martial arts teacher and godfather of Wing Chun in the action-packed sequel set in Hong Kong after the war.

‘Stake Land’ on Peacock and AMC+ and free on Kanopy

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, Kanopy, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 10/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

The 2010 indie horror film from director Jim Mickle is a survival thriller set during the vampire apocalypse.

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are ‘Knight and Day’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Romance, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 10/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

Cruise bounces through this romantic spy adventure with smooth-talking charm, ninja spy skills, and Diaz transforms from damsel in distress to partner in action with enthusiastic glee.

Aaron Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Nicolas Cage star in the superhero movie by Matthew Vaughn

‘Kick-Ass’ – wicked superhero fun on Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, satire, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD, thriller 08/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

This darkly satirical superhero movie, based on the uber-violent comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., tosses a high school teenager into a crime-fighting culture he isn’t the least bit prepared for.

George Clooney is ‘The American’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Crime Cinema, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD, thriller 07/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

Anton Corbijn’s The American (2010) is a cool, continental thriller starring George Clooney as the titular American, a professional in the assassination game in Europe. I use the term “thriller” in the generic sense, as this plays out more like Jean-Pierre Melville portrait of isolated underworld professionals, freelancers in the international network of criminal enterprise. […]

Ewan McGregor is 'The Ghost Writer' in Roman Polanski's superb thriller.

Last chance: Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost Writer’ on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Last chance, Mystery, Politics, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/22/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ewan McGregor is The Ghost Writer (2010), a scribe-for-hire in the celebrity autobiography business who is contracted to rewrite the dry memoirs of a former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan), in the smart, gripping, subtly Hitchcockian thriller from director Roman Polanski and author Robert Harris. The writer has no other name in the film—he introduces […]