Carla Gugino – Stream On Demand

Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac star in Zach Snyder's incoherent fantasy

Last chance: ‘Sucker Punch’ – Zack Snyder’s film maudit on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Incoherent, absurd, confused, and strangely fascinating, this bizarre adventure is Grimm fairy tale, Gothic thriller, twisted film noir, wacked-out madhouse melodrama, modern video game, and cheesecake spectacle directed with pulp and fantasy imagery overkill.

‘Watchmen’ – Superhero redux on Hulu

!Featured, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Hulu, satire, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD, thriller 04/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Zach Snyder’s 2009 adaptation of the landmark graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons is as faithful as anyone could hope for.

‘Spy Kids’ – pint-sized secret agents on Parmount+

!Featured, Action, adventure, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, childhood, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Paramount+, spies and espionage, SVOD 12/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Robert Rodriguez brings a sense of whimsy to his family adventure of battling siblings (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) who discover their parents are retired international spies.

‘Spy Kids 3: Game Over’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Paramount+, Science Fiction, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

The third film in the junior James Bond series takes a turn into private eye fantasy and then a dazzling (and often absurdly silly) trip into a virtual reality video game.

‘Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, childhood, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, giant monsters, Halloween, Kid Stuff, Paramount+, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

The second film in Robert Rodriguez’s junior James Bond fantasies takes them to a sweet mad scientist creating preposterous dream-creatures hatched with a childlike love of puns.

'Sin City' from Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller

‘Sin City’ – hard-boiled pulp fiction on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 10/01/2019 Sean Axmaker

In Sin City (2005), Robert Rodriguez pulls out all stylistic stops to translate the most graphic of graphic novels—Frank Miller’s Sin City tales, all hard-boiled tributes to pulp fiction and film noir—from two-dimensional pages to free-floating big screen action, and he drafted Miller to help master not just the look, but whole hard-boiled extremism. Men […]