Bob Balaban – Stream On Demand

‘Ghost World’ – suburban teen rebels on Criterion Channel and MGM+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Free, Kanopy, MGM+, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD, young adult 07/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Buscemi star in this smart, sly adaptation of the cult comic book from director Terry Zwigoff.

Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman in Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom,' starring Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, and more

‘Moonrise Kingdom’ – Wes Anderson’s endless summer on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, childhood, Criterion, DVD, family friendly, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 06/23/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Wes Anderson’s tale of young love and teenage adventure is funny, playful, and full of nostalgic blasts and period trappings, but most of all it is loving.

Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for 'Capote'

Philip Seymour Hoffman is ‘Capote’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor playing real life author Truman Capote during his research for his groundbreaking book ‘In Cold Blood,’

‘Seinfeld’ – Much ado about nothing on Netflix

!Featured, Comedy, DVD, Emmy Award, Netflix, satire, Streaming TV, SVOD 10/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

The legendary sitcom about nothing became a pop culture phenomenon, the top rated show on TV, an Emmy winner, and yada yada yada.

Robert Altman's 'Gosford Park,' screenwriter Julian Fellowes's first foray into the culture that would become 'Downton Abbey'

‘Gosford Park’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Have You Seen...?, Mystery, SVOD 07/29/2019 Sean Axmaker

In Gosford Park (2002), Robert Altman brings his gift for big, sprawling dramas knit with a fine weave of characters and a massive cast up to the task of filling them up with lives to the Merchant Ivory idiom of the manners and manors of Britain’s upper crust of yesteryear, 1932 to be specific. The […]

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 […]