J.K. Simmons – Stream On Demand

George Clooney stars in 'Burn After Reading' from Joel and Ethan Coen

‘Burn After Reading’ – unclassified CIA laughs on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Peacock, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/07/2022 Sean Axmaker

George Clooney is a philandering Federal Marshal who gets caught up in a screwball espionage caper in this hilarious comedy from the Coen Bros.

Last chance: ‘Whiplash’ – music as warfare on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, American Independent Cinema, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Hulu, music, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 03/27/2022 Sean Axmaker

J.K. Simmons swept the awards season for his performance as a ferocious music teacher in Damien Chazelle’s drama set in the world of college stage band competitions.

Paul Rudd and Jason Segal in the bromantic comedy from John Hamburg

Last chance: ‘I Love You, Man’ – A fine bromance on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, feel good movies, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Paul Rudd and Jason Segel star in this comedy that observes male bonding the same way movies chart the evolution of a romance

Ellen Page and Michael Cera star in the 2007 cult comedy 'Juno'

‘Juno’ – the feel good indie comedy hit of 2007 on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, feel good movies, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/14/2022 Sean Axmaker

The feel good comedy of a smart-mouthed high-school goofball who finds herself pregnant became the success story of 2007 and won an Oscar for screenwriter Diablo Cody.

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

Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ – The original big screen webslinger on Peacock

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, high school, Kid Stuff, Peacock, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 12/07/2021 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.

George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, and Vera Farmiga in Jason Reitman's 'Up in the Air.'

George Clooney is ‘Up in the Air’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/11/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

The Oscar-nominated drama from Jason Reitman taps into the anxieties of our precarious times and gives a voice to the victims of downsizing and those who have kept afloat be remaining completely untethered.

‘Veronica Mars’ is back on Hulu

!Featured, Cult TV, film noir, Hulu, Mystery, Streaming TV 08/17/2019 Sean Axmaker

Veronica Mars launched in 2004 as a youth-skewing high school version of the American detective drama: Nancy Drew meets Raymond Chandler in a beachside suburb of big city noir. It ran for three seasons, followed by a disappointing 2014 Kickstarter-funded feature film—but neither creator Rob Thomas nor the fans were ready to let go of the […]

Animated feature from France based on the graphic novels of Jacques Tardi

‘April and the Extraordinary World’ – Steampunk animated adventure on Netflix

!Featured, adventure, Animation, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/02/2017 Sean Axmaker

April and the Extraordinary World (France, 2015), inspired by the graphic novels of the great French comic artist Jacques Tardi, is a steampunk adventure set in an alternate reality Paris where the World Wars never occurred, electricity was never discovered, twin Eiffel Towers anchor a direct cable-car route to Berlin, and the smoke that powers […]