John C. Reilly – Stream On Demand

Burt Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and others in Paul Thomas Anderson's indie epic

Last chance: ‘Boogie Nights’ – Porn in the USA on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, movies about movies, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

Paul Thomas Anderson’s sophomore feature is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family in the adult film industry of the late 1970s.

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 09/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

Chris Pratt leads the oddball interstellar heroes of this MCU adventure, which director James Gunn turns into a colroful, tongue-in-cheek space opera spectacle.

Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen in the NASCAR culture comedy directed by Adam McKay

Will Ferrell in ‘Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby’ on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Hulu, sports, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ferrell and co-writer/director Adam McKay spoof NASCAR culture in this hilarious comedy of a race car driver with two first names and no self-awareness.

Leonardo DiCaprio is Howard Hughes in 'The Aviator,' directed by Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Aviator’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, HBO Max, historical, movies about movies, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/09/2022 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes in this lavish biographical drama of the legendary aviator, filmmaker, and airline mogul.

Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz star in 'The Lobster' from Yorgos Lanthimos.

Love is strange: ‘The Lobster’ free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/02/2018 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos describes his English language debut The Lobster (2015) as his film about love (following Dogtooth, his film on life, and Alps, on death). Which is not necessarily to call it a love story. It is, in its own way, but it just as much about the social expectations of love and […]

Will Ferrell stars in 'Talladega Nights," directed and co-written by Adam McKay

What to watch – ‘Talladega Nights’ on Netflix and Amazon and more streaming arrivals

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Comedy, Netflix, What to Stream 02/05/2016 Sean Axmaker

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) is one of the funniest films that Will Ferrell ever made. Set in the NASCAR culture, Ferrell is a race car driver with two first names who outraces his own intellect in a comedy that features neither a ballad nor a single night spent in Talladega. It […]

The animated feature 'When Marnie Was There' from Japan's Studio Ghibli

‘When Marnie Was There’ on DVD and Blu-ray

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, DVD 10/07/2015 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

I hate to think that When Marnie Was There may be the last film to come out of Japan’s Studio Ghibli, the great animation studio created by filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away). Miyazaki didn’t direct Marnie—Studio Ghibli animator-turned director Hiromasa Yonebayashi helms this lovely tale—but the studio’s dedication to the art of hand […]