Christopher Lee – Stream On Demand

Asa Butterfield and Chloë Grace Moretz star in Martin Scorsese's love letter to the movies and his first PG movie

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, art and artists, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, film history, HBO Max, historical, Kid Stuff, movies about movies, silent film, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Martin Scorsese pays tribute to film history and the magic of cinema in this family adventure set in 1920s Paris.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, HBO Max, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

The third and final film in the epic fantasy trilogy directed by Peter Jackson won 11 Academy Awards, including best picture of 2003.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, HBO Max, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

The second film in Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy is thrilling, enthralling, and dizzyingly exciting.

Joe Dante’s zany ‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, HBO Max, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/08/2022 Sean Axmaker

Joe Dante sets the gremlins loose in New York City in this rare sequel that is funnier than the original.

Peter Cushing is Sherlock Holmes in the Hammer version of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic

‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ – Hammer’s Gothic Holmes on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Classic, DVD, Mystery, SVOD, thriller 10/09/2021 Sean Axmaker

Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective in this 1959 mix mystery and supernatural horror from Hammer Studios and its top director, Terence Fisher.

Gillian Hills stars in the film directed by Edmund T. Greville

‘Beat Girl’ – British teen rebellion on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, film noir, music, SVOD, young adult 10/03/2021 Sean Axmaker

This 1960 rock and roll rebellion melodrama is a British teen exploitation picture set in the seedy underbelly of Soho and set to a growling score.

Christopher Lee is Dracula in the Hammer horror film from Terence Fisher with Peter Cushing

Hammer Films’ ‘The Horror of Dracula’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, HBO Max, horror, literary adaptation, remake, SVOD 08/29/2021 Sean Axmaker

Christopher Lee is an elegant, confident, altogether seductive Dracula and Peter Cushing an intense, driven Van Helsing in the 1958 remake of the vampire classic.

Colin Blakely is Sherlock Holmes in the film by Billy Wilder

‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Mystery, Romance, SVOD 08/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Bill Wilder’s sly, bittersweet, autumnal film approaches the Holmes legacy with both a sense of humor and a sense of respect.

Peter Jackson directs the first film in J.R.R. Tolkein's trilogy

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, HBO Max, literary adaptation, National Film Registry, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/01/2020 Sean Axmaker

New Zealand genre film maverick Peter Jackson directs this faithful, magical, thrilling, and—most importantly—compelling film version of J.R.R. Tolkein’s great cult fantasy epic.

‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ – Hammer horror on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, HBO Max, horror, literary adaptation, remake, SVOD 10/06/2020 Sean Axmaker

Britain’s Hammer Studios had been making films for decades before they suddenly redefined themselves with this lurid remake of the Universal Studios horror classic. Prohibited by Universal from copying their blocky make-up (and their script for that matter), Hammer returned to Mary Shelley’s novel for inspiration for The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)… and then went […]