Jena Malone – Stream On Demand

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ – Katnis returns on Netflix

!Featured, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller, young adult 03/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

The second film in the young adult dystopian series ups the ante and improves upon the first in every way, thanks to director Francis Lawrence who takes charge of the franchise here.

Emile Hirsch stars in Sean Penn's 'Into the Wild,' adapted from Jon Krakauer's non-fiction book

Head ‘Into the Wild’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, literary adaptation, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/04/2023 Sean Axmaker

Sean Penn’s adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction book is a bracing cinematic plunge into the odyssey of Christopher McCandless.

Elle Fanning stars in Nicholas Winding Refn's "The Neon Demon"

‘The Neon Demon’ – Elle Fanning is a fashion victim on Amazon Prime and free on Hoopla

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Hoopla, horror, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Nicholas Winding Refn’s social commentary-as-heady horror film isn’t big on subtlety but his allegory for the hunger for youth and beauty is fascinating and gorgeous.

Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac star in Zach Snyder's incoherent fantasy

Last chance: ‘Sucker Punch’ – Zack Snyder’s film maudit on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Incoherent, absurd, confused, and strangely fascinating, this bizarre adventure is Grimm fairy tale, Gothic thriller, twisted film noir, wacked-out madhouse melodrama, modern video game, and cheesecake spectacle directed with pulp and fantasy imagery overkill.

Kevin Costner stars in the History Channel miniseries with Bill Paxton and Powers Booth

‘Hatfields & McCoys’ – the feud begins on Peacock

!Featured, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Emmy Award, historical, miniseries, Peacock, Streaming TV, SVOD 05/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton star in this hit 2012 miniseries about the most famous family feud in American history.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, and Frank in Richard Kelly's cult movie of teen confusion

‘Donnie Darko’ – Life’s a mystery on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, HBO Max, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD 02/14/2022 Sean Axmaker

Richard Kelly’s visually imaginative and intellectually challenging debut film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an otherwise confused teenager in a world of mystery and imagination.

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in 'Inherent Vice,' Paul Thomas Anderson's loopy take on Thomas Pynchon's dope-infused private eye novel.

‘Inherent Vice’ on VOD

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD 05/25/2016 Sean Axmaker

Inherent Vice (2014), Paul Thomas Anderson’s loopy take on Thomas Pynchon’s dope-infused private eye novel, earned Anderson an Oscar nomination for his ingenious screenplay adaptation and critical raves for the rich pageant of eccentrics and oddballs bouncing through 1970 Los Angeles with a post-sixties hangover. I never read Pynchon’s novel so I’ll take the word […]

Keira Knightley and family in 'Pride and Prejudice.'

What to watch: new movies and TV shows for the new year

!Featured, Netflix, Streaming Movies, What to Stream 01/01/2016 Sean Axmaker

Happy 2016. Here are a few of the recent arrivals on Netflix, Amazon, and the rest of the streaming and VOD services. Netflix Keira Knightley is the headstrong and feisty Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, class and social convention. Matthew Macfadyen is the starchy […]

Richard Gere and Ben Vereen are homeless men in 'Time Out of Mind,' directed by Oren Moverman

‘Time Out of Mind’ on Netflix

!Featured, Netflix, Streaming Movies 12/15/2015 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Richard Gere produces as well as stars in Time Out of Mind (2014) as George, a homeless and quite possibly mentally ill man in Manhattan getting lost in the bureaucratic maze of social services while bouncing from shelter to shelter in an effort to find some stability. Clearly the subject matter compels him—Gere’s activism is […]