Ciarán Hinds – Stream On Demand

Tom Hanks is on the ‘Road to Perdition’ on Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, gangsters, MGM+, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 09/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

Sam Mendes followed up his Oscar-winning ‘American Beauty’ with a dark, Depression-era gangster drama costarring Paul Newman and Jude Law.

Helen Mirren is Jane Tennison in 'Prime Suspect'

The Complete ‘Prime Suspect’ with Helen Mirren on BritBox

!Featured, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, BritBox, British TV, DVD, Streaming TV, SVOD 10/18/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Helen Mirren got the role of a lifetime playing DCI Jane Tennison, a tough, tenacious, at times brittle woman in a brutally chauvinist British police culture in a series of smart mysteries.

Ewan McGregor stars as Jesus in Rodrigo García's 'Last Days in the Desert'

‘Last Days in the Desert’ free on Hoopla

!Featured, DVD, Easter, Free, Hoopla, religion, SVOD 04/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

I am not religious but I love stories of The Christ. I don’t mean Ben-Hur (though I do love both the original silent and Charlton Heston versions of the film) but films like Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, all very […]

Aaron Staton, Hattie Morahan, and Owen McDonnell in the BBC homefront drama

‘My Mother & Other Strangers’ – Growing up in wartime on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, biographical, British TV, drama, DVD, historical, Streaming TV, SVOD, war 01/16/2018 Sean Axmaker

Set in a rural Irish town during World War II, My Mother & Other Strangers (2017) is another British TV homefront drama, this one viewed through the memories of an adolescent boy. Francis Coyne (Michael Nevin) is the son of Rose (Hattie Morahan), who is London born and bred and treated like an outsider by […]