Guy Pearce – Stream On Demand

Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker on Netflix

Oscar winner ‘The Hurt Locker’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller, war 01/30/2023 Sean Axmaker 3 Comments

Kathryn Bigelow directs this searing drama of men under fire and how war tranforms them and entered the record books as the first woman to win the Oscar for best director.

Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in the Oscar-winning film by Tom Hooper

Oscar-winner ‘The King’s Speech’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, historical, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Colin Firth is the man who would be King George VI and Geoffrey Rush is the eccentric speech therapist who helps the royal overcome his stammer in this based-on-a-true-story drama that won Academy Awards, including best picture, best director Tom Hooper, and best actor Firth.

‘Prometheus’- the ‘Alien’ prequel on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 01/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott returns to the ‘Alien’ universe with this visually magnificent odyssey with a weak script and a cosmic backdrop.

Robert Carlyle stars in the cannibal western 'Ravenous,' directed by Antonia Bird and featuring Guy Pearce.

‘Ravenous’ – Meat is meat on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 12/27/2022 Sean Axmaker

Guy Pearce stars as an accidental Civil War hero who gets shipped out an isolated mountain fort in this mix of frontier western and cannibal horror.

Evan Rachel Wood and Kate Winslet in the 2011 miniseries adaptation of the James M. Cain novel by Todd Haynes

‘Mildred Pierce’ – the miniseries on Amazon Prime and HBO Now

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Emmy Award, Have You Seen...?, miniseries, remake, Streaming TV, SVOD 11/20/2018 Sean Axmaker

Mildred Pierce (2011) is less a remake than a new run at adapting the James M. Cain novel. Previously made into a Hollywood classic (which earned Joan Crawford her only Oscar), it’s been transformed into a five-hour mini-series by director Todd Haynes, who cast Kate Winslet in the title role as the mother blindly devoted […]

Percelle Ascott and Sorcha Groundsell in the Netflix series co-starring Guy Pearce

What to stream: ‘The Innocents’ on Netflix, ‘Safe Harbour’ on Hulu ‘Mystery Road’ on Acorn TV, ‘Deadpool 2’ on VOD

!Featured, Acorn TV, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, MHz, Netflix, Showtime Anytime, Streaming TV, SVOD 08/24/2018 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 … The moody new Netflix Original series The Innocents: Season 1 is a young adult superhero drama about a teenage girl (Sorcha Groundsell) who manifests the power to shape-shift while on the […]