Albert Brooks – Stream On Demand

Leaving soon: George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez are ‘Out of Sight’ on Peacock and Apple TV+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Apple TV+, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Essential Viewing, Peacock, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

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

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in 'Taxi Driver'

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, National Film Registry, neo-noir, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 02/06/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Robert DeNiro stars in Scorsese’s incendiary masterpiece of alienation and anger and urban anxiety, a landmark in seventies American cinema.

Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain face ‘A Most Violent Year’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/03/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

J.C. Chandor writes and directs this drama set in the crime-ridden culture of early 1980s New York City, a smart, shadowy tribute to the American crime dramas of the seventies.

‘Drive’ – Ryan Gosling’s getaway on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Peacock, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD 08/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Sleek pulp crime cool meets arthouse style thriller in Drive (2011, R) starring Ryan Gosling as a taciturn getaway driver. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (a veteran of gritty, brutal Danish underworld dramas) with a silky smoothness and a stylized cool that recalls Le Samourai and Walter Hill’s The Driver, and an eighties vibe and […]

Albert Brooks is ‘Lost in America’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, Have You Seen...?, road movie, satire, SVOD 09/17/2020 Sean Axmaker

Albert Brooks has been making his offbeat brand of satirical comedies about the neuroses and anxieties of affluent Americans, lost in the bubble of their own insular cultures, for more than 40 years. His third feature Lost in America (1985) remains his most incisive satire and most popular film. Brooks is David, a successful Los […]

Ellen DeGeneres voices Dory in Pixar's animated adventure 'Finding Dory'

Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’ on Disney+

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/20/2020 Sean Axmaker

Finding Dory (2016), Pixar’s sequel to its gorgeous animated aquatic masterpiece, can’t shake off its sequel-ness—it plays like a variation on the theme rather than an original take on the familiar tale—but it’s a Pixar picture with all the care and love and storytelling magic that the studio brings to every project. Which makes this […]

What to watch: Albert Brooks on Netflix, ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ on VOD, and scores of new titles on Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu

!Featured, Netflix, What to Stream 07/01/2016 Sean Axmaker

All seven features written and directed by Albert Brooks are now streaming on Netflix. We don’t know how long this contract lasts so you may want to start watching now. In chronological order, they are Real Life (1979, PG) with Charles Grodin, Modern Romance (1981, R) with Kathryn Harold, Lost in America (1985, R) with […]

Watch This!: Albert Brooks explains how he got Netflix to stream his movies

Netflix, News, Watch This! 06/30/2016 Sean Axmaker

Let’s be clear: Albert Brooks does not advocate kidnapping, but… Yes, this is a commercial for movies coming to Netflix, but it’s a commercial created by and starring Albert Brooks, and if you are a fan, it’s a must-see. Coming to Netflix July 1: Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), Defending Your Life […]