Ben Whishaw – Stream On Demand

‘Skyfall’ – James Bond faces his past on Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, British Cinema, DVD, Hulu, Paramount+, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller 10/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

007 gets a backstory and Judi Dench gets her hands dirty as M in the 23rd official Bond movie, directed with high style by Sam Mendes.

Ben Whishaw meets a ‘London Spy’

!Featured, British TV, DVD, Limited Series, Netflix, spies and espionage 03/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

There is indeed a spy in London Spy (2015) but this BBC mini-series is not a traditional espionage drama. Danny (Ben Whishaw) is a club-culture young gay man with a dreary day job who meets the closeted, emotionally suppressed Alex (Edward Holcroft), a genius with numbers but awkward with people. He’s an investment banker who […]

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, and others star in the film by Lana and Lilly (formerly Andy) Wachowski and Tom Tykwer

‘Cloud Atlas’ – storytelling across centuries

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, literary adaptation, Science Fiction, SVOD 07/01/2020 Sean Axmaker

Cloud Atlas (2012) wants nothing for ambition. Jumping between six distinctive stories in six different eras, with a cast that plays different (yet connected) parts in the various storyline, it’s at once literal and evasive, a film that wears its heart on its beautifully stitched sleeve and its meaning in its design and yet finds […]

‘Bridge of Spies’ on Showtime Anytime

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Showtime Anytime 01/14/2017 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Bridge of Spies (2015), Steven Spielberg’s cold war drama, stars Tom Hanks as insurance attorney James B. Donovan, an American idealist asked to represent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a Soviet spy captured by the CIA in 1957 and given a public trial. He’s prize casting in a legal pageant that he’s supposed to lose but Donovan takes […]

‘Spectre’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Streaming Movies 10/22/2016 Sean Axmaker

Spectre (2015), the 24th James Bond film and the fourth starring Daniel Craig, continues to explore the origins of 007. The opening scene, set in Mexico City in the midst of the Day of the Dead celebrations, is one of the best in the series, and we get the fun of Bond once again going rogue, […]