Ernest Borgnine – Stream On Demand

Leaving soon: ‘The Dirty Dozen’ – the original World War II caper on Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Max, SVOD, war 09/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

Lee Marvin leads twelve military convicts (including Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, and John Cassavetes) on a suicide mission behind enemy lines in this testosterone-fueled classic.

‘Red’ – Bruce Willis is deadly funny on Hulu

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Hulu, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/03/2023 Sean Axmaker

John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren costar in the action comedy about retired agents who prove that cunning, confidence and skill beats youth and arrogance.

Kurt Russell stars in the cult film from John Carpenter

‘Escape from New York’ – Welcome to Manhattan on Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

John Carpenter transformed Kurt Russell into an action hero with this clever sci-fi thriller where Manhattan has been turned into a high security island prison.

‘From Here to Eternity’ – love in the time of World War II on Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Max, Romance, SVOD, war 01/04/2023 Sean Axmaker

Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Montgomery Clift star in the Oscar-winning classic romantic drama set in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor.

‘The Black Hole’ – Captain Nemo in space on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, Disney+, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Disney’s 1979 foray into big-budget sci-fi was the company’s first PG movie and an expensive flop that has become a cult movie for its impressive imagery.

Kirk Douglas commands ‘The Vikings’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, historical, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 10/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh costar in this grandly-mounted barbarian fantasy, shot in Technicolor on location in Norway, Germany, and France.

Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, William Holden, and Ernest Borgnine star in Sam Peckinpah's western masterpiece 'The Wild Bunch.'

‘The Wild Bunch’ – Sam Peckinpah’s frontier apocalypse

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 05/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

William Holden and Robert Ryan are former partners turned adversaries in this landmark western set on the twilight of the frontier.

Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper in the 1954 western by Robert Aldrich

‘Vera Cruz’ – The proto-spaghetti western on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 04/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

“You’re the first friend I ever had,” grins flamboyant mercenary Burt Lancaster to lean, laconic Gary Cooper in with a smile that suggests that he may be the last. They’re a pair of Americans abroad looking to cash in the Mexican revolution by selling their services to the highest bidder in Vera Cruz (1954), Robert […]

‘Jubal’ – Frontier Othello on VOD and Criterion Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 06/25/2019 Sean Axmaker

Delmer Daves was a Hollywood pro with a long career and an impressive filmography when he made Jubal (1956). A screenwriter turned director, Daves moved easily between all genres—war pictures, romances, westerns, Biblical epics, and a few noir-inflected dramas—and oddly enough found his biggest success in glossy melodrama A Summer Place, but I think he […]