John Turturro – Stream On Demand

John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and George Clooney in the Coen Bros.' screwball odyssey 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'

‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ – That old-timey Coen comedy on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

George Clooney stars in the hilarious comedy from the Coen Bros., a depression-era prison break movie-turned-screwball odyssey through the deep south, based on Homer’s ‘The Odyssey.”

Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in Martin Scorsese's 'The Color of Money'

Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Color of Money’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Paramount+, sports, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Paul Newman won an Oscar playing Fast Eddie Felson and young Tom Cruise is his pool player protege in this tale of pool hustling, regret, and redemption.

Miguel Sandoval, Spike Lee, and Ossie Davis

Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, African-American cinema, African-American filmmakers, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, Peacock, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/16/2022 Sean Axmaker

Spike Lee’s vibrant, vital, thoroughly accomplished third feature is a provocative and intelligent exploration of race and racism that opens with a call to action and ends with a ferocious cry in the face of injustice.

‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ – more giant robot mayhem on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Michael Bay’s third rock ’em sock ’em giant robot spectacular is the most expensive abstract disaster film ever made.

‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ – this time it’s personal on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

The sequel to the first live-action Transformers movie is bigger, louder, more furiously edited and animated, and sadly less fun.

‘Transformers’ – When alien robots attack on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 02/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are the human stars of Michael Bay’s heavy metal action spectacle inspired a line of 1980s action figures and an animated TV show.

Rosanna Arquette and Madonna in Susan Seidelman's 'Desperately Seeking Susan'

‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ on HBO Max and HBO Now

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, Directed by Women, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/02/2021 Sean Axmaker

Madonna made a memorable big screen debut with this colorful and playful American indie set in the bohemian culture of 1980s New York CIty.

To Live and Die in L.A. - Photo credit: MGM, Blu-ray by Shout! Factory

Blu-ray: ‘To Live and Die in L.A.: Collector’s Edition’ from Shout Select

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, Shout! Factory 01/07/2017 Sean Axmaker

To Live and Die in L.A.: Collector’s Edition (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) (1985) has aged well. While on the one hand you can hold it up as the quintessential expression of the era’s music video aesthetics and sleek, slick style, it’s also a distinctively singular, perfectly pitched action thriller from William Friedkin, a director in full […]

Riz Ahmed, John Turturro, and Bill Camp star in the mini-series from Steven Zaillian and Richard Price

‘The Night Of’ – Justice grinds on HBO Now

!Featured, Action, miniseries 12/12/2016 Sean Axmaker

The first episode of The Night Of (2016), the HBO mini-series created by Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List) and acclaimed author and screenwriter Richard Price (The Wire), plunges the audience into the skin of a Nasir “Naz” Khan (Riz Ahmed), a nerdy first-generation Pakistani-American college boy and tutor to the football star. A skinny […]