Danny Elfman – Stream On Demand

Tim Burton’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, childhood, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Hulu, Kid Stuff, remake, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore is Charlie in the second cinematic take on Roald Dahl’s offbeat fantasy

Tobey Maguire stars on Sam Raimi's big screen superhero movie

Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ – The original big screen webslinger on Netflix and Disney+

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, high school, Kid Stuff, Netflix, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 06/01/2023 Sean Axmaker

This 2002 film was the first to capture the graphic thrills and eye-popping spectacle of a true comic book superhero and it essentially launched the 21st century superhero genre.

‘Edward Scissorhands’ – Tim Burton’s suburban fairy tale on Disney+ and Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Christmas, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, high school, Kid Stuff, MGM+, Paramount+, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/11/2023 Sean Axmaker

Johnny Depp is sweetly haunting as the innocent outcast in Burton’s magical and melancholy fairy tale for the modern world.

Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Animation, Christmas, family friendly, fantasy, Halloween, Kid Stuff, Musical, Streaming Movies 12/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

The playfully macabre humor of Tim Burton is deftly brought to life through the old-school magic of stop-motion animation by director Henry Selick in this offbeat Christmas musical.

Tim Burton visits the ‘Planet of the Apes’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, remake, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Mark Wahlberg stars as the American astronaut who lands on a planet where apes rule and humans drool and Helena Bonham Carter is the simian who supports human rights.

Alfred Hitchcock directs Janet Leigh on the set of the 1960 film 'Psycho' from the documentary by Alexandre O. Philippe

’78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene’ – exploring ‘Psycho’ on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Documentary, DVD, horror, Hulu, movies about movies, SVOD, thriller 07/13/2021 Sean Axmaker

The title of 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene (2017), a documentary on the legendary sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1961 classic Psycho, refers to the 78 camera set-ups and 52 cuts in the three-minute scene, an astounding attention to detail to a brief sequence that shocked American audiences with transgressions suggested but not actually shown on screen. […]