Ed Harris – Stream On Demand

Tilda Swinton in Bong Joon-ho 's 'Snowpiercer'

Last chance: ‘Snowpiercer’ – careening apocalyptic allegory on Peacock

!Featured, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Peacock, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (‘Parasite’) directs this high-speed allegory barreling down the science fiction tracks of genre cinema.

Casey Affleck in Ben Affleck's directorial debut

‘Gone Baby Gone’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, Mystery, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/02/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ben Affleck made a confident and compelling directorial debut with his smart adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s mystery novel and his brother Casey Affleck stars.

Scott Glen, Fred Ward, John Glenn, and Dennis Quaid as the astronauts in 'The Right Stuff,' directed by Philip Kaufman.

‘The Right Stuff’ – the first men in space on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Philip Kaufman story of the original NASA astronauts is *the* American epic of the last great frontier and a genuinely romantic take on the first generation of space cowboys.

Peter Weir directs 'The Way Back,' a survival drama starring Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, and Saoirse Ronan

Peter Weir’s ‘The Way Back’ on Hulu

!Featured, based on a true story, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, road movie, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/05/2019 Sean Axmaker

The Way Back (2010), filmmaker Peter Weir’s first film since Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in 2003, is a protean survival drama with a human grounding. The film was barely seen in theaters, receiving a belated, haphazard release after studio delays and critical neglect. Even with a cast headed by Ed […]

Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen, and Ed Harris

What to stream: ‘Kodachrome’ and ‘Mercury 13’ on Netflix and ‘Loving Vincent’ animates Van Gogh on Hulu

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, drama, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Showtime Anytime, Streaming Movies, What to Stream 04/20/2018 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Kodachrome (2017, not rated) stars Jason Sudeikis as a record industry burnout who reluctantly joins his estranged, dying father (Ed Harris) for a road trip to the last lab in America […]

Morgan Freeman in the film directed by George Romero

George Romero’s ‘Knightriders’ on Shout Factory TV

!Featured, Cult Movies, drama, fantasy, Shout Factory TV, SVOD 07/17/2017 Sean Axmaker

Knightriders (1981) is easily the gentlest film ever made by George Romero, a romantic story of gypsy bikers who create a kind of traveling Renaissance faire built around the chivalric ideal of an Arthurian court. There’s a streak of the Camelot story played out all in modern times, but on a more intimate, human scale […]

Ed Harris, Paul Newman, and William Fichtner in the HBO mini-series 'Empire Falls,' directed by Fred Schepisi.

‘Empire Falls’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Streaming Movies 05/30/2016 Sean Axmaker

Empire Falls (2005) – Paul Newman found one of the great roles of his career in the Robert Benton’s film of Richard Russo’s Nobody’s Fool (1994), playing a gently reckless cock-up of a father who gets an unexpected second chance to help his son. So it’s no surprise that he jumped at the chance to […]

Video on Demand: Liam Neeson in ‘Run All Night’

!Featured, Action, On Demand, Streaming Movies, VOD 06/16/2015 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Liam Neeson is back in action in the gritty crime thriller Run All Night, his third and most satisfying collaboration with filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown, Non-Stop). Neeson once again has a very specific skill set—his nickname isn’t Jimmy the Gravedigger for nothing—but he’s been pickling it in booze for years to drown the guilt of […]