James Franco – Stream On Demand

Tobey Maguire is back in Sam Raimi's sequel, with Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus

Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man 2’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, adventure, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, Peacock, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 07/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

The second installment of the original Spidey trilogy is a real supe-opera with young adult turmoil pushed into the realms of comic-book mythology with zippy action and spectacular set pieces.

James Franco and Seth Rogen ride the ‘Pineapple Express’ on Hulu

!Featured, Action, adventure, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

David Gordon Green made the leap from indie dramas of small town tragedy to make this hilarious stoner buddy comedy. Written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, produced by Judd Apatow, and Danny McBride and Gary Cole.

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 06/13/2022 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.

Sean Penn is Harvey Milk in the Oscar-winning film directed by Gus Van Sant

Sean Penn is Harvey ‘Milk’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Peacock, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Gus Van Sant directs this drama about the first openly gay man elected to public office in the U.S., with a focus on the human behind the legacy. It won an Oscar for its screenplay.

‘Freaks and Geeks’ – complete and restored on Hulu

!Featured, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult TV, DVD, Emmy Award, high school, Hulu, Streaming TV, SVOD 01/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

Somewhere between Dawson’s Creek and Booksmart is the sharp, funny, and surprisingly poignant high school dram-edy (for lack of a better word) Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000). Linda Cardellini grounds the series as Junior Lindsay, the former class brain who rejects her place in the school hierarchy and, in startling identity crisis, gravitates toward the school […]

Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine , and James Franco star in Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers'

‘Spring Breakers’ free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Crime, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, high school, Hoopla, Kanopy, music, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller 01/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

Spring Breakers (2012) is not your traditional fun in the sun spring break movie. But then you wouldn’t expect that from Harmony Korine, the self-appointed agent provocateur of American indie cinema confrontation, even with a cast that includes Disney Channel sweethearts Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens. They play two of the four college girls (Ashley […]

‘Sausage Party’ – Food, sex, and R-rated animation on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

Animation, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, SVOD 08/21/2018 Sean Axmaker

Sausage Party (2016) – From the studio that produced Zero Dark Thirty, American Hustler, and Foxcatcher comes the junk foodie fantasy that stirs American Pie, Toy Story, Logan’s Run, and every torture porn horror of the last decade into a raunchy paean to hedonism with more food puns than a Catskills grocer. It is the […]

Rashida Jones stars in the police procedural parody 'Angie Tribeca'

‘Angie Tribeca’ – Season One on Hulu

!Featured, Comedy, Hulu, Streaming TV 06/19/2016 Sean Axmaker

Angie Tribeca: Season One – I loved Police Squad, the short-lived TV comedy from the creators of Airplane! that spoofed TV cop shows with an anything goes approach. Only six episodes were made before the networks gave up on it. This was 1982, after all, back in the days when only three major networks existed, […]