Kristen Wiig – Stream On Demand

‘Whip It’ – grrrl power on the roller derby rink on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Comedy, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, feel good movies, Have You Seen...?, high school, sports, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/27/2022 Sean Axmaker

Elliot Page has their best role since ‘Juno’ in the joyful directorial debut of Drew Boarrymore, a coming of age tale set in the DIY world of local roller derby leagues.

Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in Greg Mottola's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film 'Adventureland.' Photo credit: Miramax

‘Adventureland’ – coming of age on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

Adventureland (2009, R) is more than just a chintzy theme park outside of Pittsburgh, where college grad James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) spends a summer trying to save money for graduate school. It’s the real world adventures of life in the space between college and independence, that place where you think that you’re an adult but […]

Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig are ‘The Skeleton Twins’ on Amazon Prime Video and Hulu

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 01/29/2020 Sean Axmaker

The Skeleton Twins (2014) stars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as estranged siblings who are brought together after the failed suicide of one interrupts the attempted suicide of the other. This is a damaged family and Maggie (Wiig) and Milo (Hader) are self-destructive in their depression, almost willfully making choices doomed to ruin whatever equilibrium […]

‘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 […]

Matt Damon is 'The Martian' in the science fiction drama directed by Ridley Scott

‘The Martian’ on Blu-ray and DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, DVD, Science Fiction 01/25/2017 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

The Martian (2015), winner of two Golden Globe Awards and nominated for seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Actor for Matt Damon), is the rare science fiction drama that is actually built on applied physics and engineering and organic chemistry and where survival depends on creative problem solving and teamwork across millions of miles. […]

Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon in the 2016 'Ghostbusters'

Who ya gonna call? ‘Ghostbusters 2016’ on VOD

!Featured, Comedy, On Demand, VOD 10/11/2016 Sean Axmaker

Ghostbusters (2016), the reboot / remake / revival of the 1984 frat boy comedy starring Bill Murray as a sardonic con man in academia turned nuclear powered paranormal investigator, was the most controversial film of the year if you measure such things by Facebook rants and Twitter burns from arrested adolescents. Why? Because it stars […]