Benicio Del Toro – Stream On Demand

Emily Blunt stars in 'Sicario,' a vivid, volatile thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve

‘Sicario’ – Emily Blunt takes on the drug war on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

Denis Villeneuve directs this violent, chaotic, adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war written by Taylor Sheridan (who went on to create ‘Yellowstone’).

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ – a space opera mixtape on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 05/05/2023 Sean Axmaker

Chris Pratt leads the oddball interstellar heroes of this MCU adventure, which director James Gunn turns into a colorful, tongue-in-cheek space opera spectacle.

Benicio Del Toro and Halle Berry in 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' directed by Susanne Bier

‘Things We Lost in the Fire’ – Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

The English-language debut of Danish director Susanne Bier is a touching drama of healing and forgiveness.

'Sin City' from Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller

‘Sin City’ – hard-boiled pulp fiction on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Rodriguez pulls out all stylistic stops to translate the most graphic of graphic novels—Frank Miller’s Sin City tales,—from two-dimensional pages to free-floating big screen action.

‘Escape at Dannemora’ on Amazon Prime and Showtime Anytime

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, Binge-able TV, caper, drama, DVD, Emmy nominee, Have You Seen...?, Showtime Anytime, Streaming TV, suspense, SVOD 07/26/2020 Sean Axmaker

In 2015 Richard Matt and David Sweat, two inmates at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, escaped with the help of Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, who ran the sewing shop and engaged in sexual affairs with both men. The eight-hour limited series Escape at Dannemora (2018), originally produced for Showtime, dramatizes the true story. Benicio […]

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’ on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, biographical, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, historical, International Cinema, SVOD 07/27/2019 Sean Axmaker

Steven Soderbergh’s Che (2008) is both two features and one work, a 4 ½-hour production that carves out what Soderbergh, producer/star Benicio Del Toro, and screenwriter Peter Buchman see as the two defining periods in the life of Ernesto Che Guevara: the Cuban Revolution and the Bolivian expedition. Except for a brief scene where Guevara […]

Benicio Del Toro is Ernesto Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's biographical drama

Benicio Del Toro is ‘Che’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, biographical, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, Streaming Movies 12/12/2017 Sean Axmaker

Steven Soderbergh’s two-part Che (2008), starring Benicio Del Toro as the revolutionary leader turned martyred legend and idealized cultural icon, is not a tradition bio-pic. Spanning four-and-a-half hours over two films—Part One on the triumph in Cuba, Part Two on the failure in Bolivia—it’s both two films and a single, unified work that focuses on […]