James Caan – Stream On Demand

‘Elf’ with Will Ferrell on Max and Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Christmas, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, feel good movies, Hulu, Max, Starz, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

This holiday comedy about a human raised by elves who goes in search of his biological father on New York City has become a modern Christmas tradition for many families.

‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’ – foodie weather on Peacock

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, foodie film, Kid Stuff, Peacock, SVOD 11/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

A town gets a buffet line for a weather system in this colorful animated feature based on a children’s storybook tale.

James Caan is a master ‘Thief’ on Paramount+

!Featured, based on a novel, BritBox, Crime, Criterion, DVD, neo-noir, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 09/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

Michael Mann brought a new sensibility to the American crime movie with this 1981 thriller that launched his career and defined the neon noir aesthetic.

Marlon Brando stars in the Oscar-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ trilogy on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, gangsters, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Peacock, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

Al Pacino is Michael Corleone in the great American epic of the immigrant dream turned family business in the Oscar-winning trilogy based on the novel by Mario Puzo.

‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Animation, Blu-ray, childhood, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, International Cinema, Kid Stuff, Max, SVOD 08/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

Isao Takahata directs this animated 10th-century fairy tale of a magical princess who is born of a bamboo stalk for Studio Ghibli, the animation powerhouse he cofounded.

Get your kicks on ‘Route 66: Complete Series’ on IMDbTV and Hoopla

!Featured, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, IMDB TV, road movie, Streaming TV, SVOD 11/17/2021 Sean Axmaker

Martin Milner and George Maharis star in the original TV road show, traveling the country in a Corvette convertible and getting caught up in other people’s stories.

‘Naked City’ – the complete classic cop drama free on IMDbTV

!Featured, Action, Classic Movie, DVD, Emmy Award, IMDB TV, Streaming TV, SVOD 04/13/2020 Sean Axmaker

“There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.” The acclaimed cop show Naked City: Complete Series (1958-1959), set and shot on the streets of New York City, is ostensibly inspired by the influential 1948 film of the same name, a film noir with documentary immediacy. But it plays […]

James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Bo Hopkins in the Sam Peckinpah film

Blu-ray: ‘The Killer Elite’ on Twilight Time

Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Twilight Time 03/27/2017 Sean Axmaker

The Killer Elite / Noon Wine (1966) (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – By even the most generous measure, The Killer Elite (1975) is one of Sam Peckinpah’s weakest film. Which, by Peckinpah standards, is still a cut above a great many films. He manages to get his own sensibility into the tale of black ops mercenaries […]