Tag: John Cusack

Paul Dano is Brian Wilson in 'Love & Mercy'

‘Love & Mercy’ – Brian Wilson’s journey on Hulu and Peacock

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, music, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/28/202106/27/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Capturing the life of Brian Wilson, the troubled genius who pushed the surf pop sound of The Beach Boys into psychedelic symphonies as he spiraled into depression, in just a few key years is a tricky proposition. Love & Mercy (2014), a biopic that parallels the boyish enthusiasm and free-flowing creative drive of young visionary […]

‘Being John Malkovich’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Peacock, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/15/202104/15/2021 Sean Axmaker

Being John Malkovich (1999), a devastatingly funny portrait of unhappiness, desperation, desire, and the vicious things we do for love, catapulted Spike Jonze from music video wunderkind to visionary director and Charlie Kaufman from sitcom scribe to brilliant screenwriter. In 1999, when our obsession with celebrity was mainly fed by gossip magazines and entertainment programs, […]

Teyonah Parris stars in Spike Lee's 'Chi-Raq.'

Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, Amazon Prime Video, Streaming Movies 02/04/201602/15/2017 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Spike Lee weaves a familiar call through Chi-Raq (2015), his polarizing portrait of violence on Chicago’s South Side. Wake up. It’s been a cry and a plea since his first studio feature, School Daze (1998), and it’s particularly resonant in a film about black-on-black gang violence in Chicago, where more Americans have been murdered in […]