‘Fast & Furious 6’ on HBO Max !Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, heist, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 01/24/202201/24/2022 Sean Axmaker Dwayne Johnson joins Vin Deisel and Paul Walker in the high-energy, fuel-injected franchise of fast cars and wild stunts.
‘Snowpiercer’ – careening apocalyptic allegory on Peacock !Featured, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Peacock, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/11/202201/11/2022 Sean Axmaker Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (‘Parasite’) directs this high-speed allegory barreling down the science fiction tracks of genre cinema.
‘Words and Pictures’ on Prime Video and free on Kanopy !Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, movies about art, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/09/202201/09/2022 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche star in this romantic drama built around a “competition” between literature and the visual arts.
‘World War Z’ – Brad Pitt vs. the zombie hordes on Hulu and Paramount+ !Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, horror, Hulu, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 12/16/202112/14/2021 Sean Axmaker The zombie movie becomes a global pandemic thriller in this adaptation of the bestselling Max Brooks novel.
Oscar-winning ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ on Peacock !Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Peacock, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/21/202111/21/2021 Sean Axmaker Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto won Academy Awards for this drama about an unlikely hero in the early days of the AIDS crisis.
Hugh Jackman is ‘The Wolverine’ on HBO Max !Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, martial arts, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 11/14/202111/13/2021 Sean Axmaker The second solo film featuring the break-out ‘X-Men’ character sends him to Japan to take the yakuza.
‘Warm Bodies’ – young zombies in love on HBO Max !Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, feel good movies, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, horror, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD, young adult 10/27/202110/27/2021 Sean Axmaker Nicholas Hoult plays a self-aware, dissatisfied zombie whose heart is kicked back to life when he falls in love with a human in the rom-zom-com by Jonathan Levine. Teresa Palmer costars.
‘Stoker’ – not your usual family drama on HBO Max !Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, horror, psychological drama, suspense, SVOD 10/20/202110/20/2021 Sean Axmaker The English-language debut of South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook is a vampire movie without a vampire. At least not in the mythic sense of the term.
Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘The Grandmaster’ on Starz !Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, biographical, Blu-ray, DVD, International Cinema, martial arts, Starz, SVOD 09/20/202101/02/2022 Sean Axmaker Tony Leung stars as martial arts master Ip Man in this lush, romantic take on the martial arts action genre.
‘The World’s End’ – pub crawling to the end of the world on Peacock !Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Peacock, satire, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, VOD 09/19/202109/19/2021 Sean Axmaker The third film in the “Cornetto” trilogy created by friends and collaborators Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg is cheeky fun.
