Alfred Molina – Stream On Demand

Johnny Depp is a lizard in the old West in ‘Rango’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Animation, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Have You Seen...?, Kid Stuff, Netflix, satire, Spaghetti Cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 02/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

This offbeat animated adventure is like a spaghetti western remake of ‘Chinatown.’

JZA, RZA, and Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s 'Coffee and Cigarettes'

‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies 01/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jim Jarmusch’s whimsical, 17-years-in-the-making anthology of curiosities plays like a collection of goofball asides to his feature films.

Tobey Maguire is back in Sam Raimi's sequel, with Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus

Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man 2’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, adventure, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, Peacock, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 12/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

The second installment of the original Spidey trilogy is a real supe-opera with young adult turmoil pushed into the realms of comic-book mythology with zippy action and spectacular set pieces.

‘Enchanted April’ – an Italian escape

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

Four women break out of their confined lives and roles when they rent a Italian villa in this romantic drama of reawakening. Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker, and Joan Plowright costar with the beautiful Mediterranean landscape.

‘Steamboy’ – steampunk animation on Amazon Prime

!Featured, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, Animation, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Science Fiction, SVOD 03/10/2021 Sean Axmaker

Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 animated landmark Akira is one of the essential titles of cyberpunk cinema. With Steamboy (Japan, 2004), he steps to the industrial revolution of 1866 England to take on steampunk, a historical genre of science fiction with an alternate reality of scientific advancement. Idealistic boy inventor Ray Steam is happy to tinker over […]

Rashida Jones stars in the police procedural parody 'Angie Tribeca'

‘Angie Tribeca’ – Season One on Hulu

!Featured, Comedy, Hulu, Streaming TV 06/19/2016 Sean Axmaker

Angie Tribeca: Season One – I loved Police Squad, the short-lived TV comedy from the creators of Airplane! that spoofed TV cop shows with an anything goes approach. Only six episodes were made before the networks gave up on it. This was 1982, after all, back in the days when only three major networks existed, […]

Oscar Isaac and Carla Quevedo in the HBO series Show Me a Hero from David Simon

‘Show Me a Hero’ on HBO Go and HBO Now

!Featured, Streaming TV 08/17/2015 Sean Axmaker

HBO has just given streamers another reason to subscribe to HBO Now. Show Me a Hero, a six-hour miniseries developed by David Simon (The Wire) and William F. Zorzi from the non-fiction book by Lisa Belkin and directed by Paul Haggis (with a subtlety and nuance I didn’t know he had in him), stars Oscar […]