Lee Van Cleef – Stream On Demand

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone's 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Peacock, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD, western 12/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Clint Eastwood stars in Sergio Leone’s classic Civil War epic, arguably the definitive spaghetti western.

Kurt Russell stars in the cult film from John Carpenter

The original ‘Escape from New York’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, HBO Max, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

“Plissken? I heard you were dead.” “Call me Snake.” Maybe it’s not John Carpenter’s best film, but Escape from New York (1981) is one of his most fun and the premise is irresistible: in the future, Manhattan has been turned into a high security island prison and Liberty Island is the guard station. When Air […]

‘Kansas City Confidential’ free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Free, gangsters, Kanopy, SVOD 11/21/2017 Sean Axmaker

Kansas City Confidential (1952), the first of three collaborations between Phil Karlson, a director who graduated from B-movies with a strong storytelling punch and a tough, two-fisted sensibility, and John Payne, a former light romantic lead and bland song-and-dance man of Fox musicals, was a career changer for both of them. Payne was already reinventing […]

Lee Van Cleef stars in Tonino Valerii 's spaghetti western 'Day of Anger'

‘Day of Anger’ – Lee Van Cleef rules on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Spaghetti Cinema, western 01/15/2017 Sean Axmaker

Day of Anger (Italy, 1967) is another reminder of why Lee Van Cleef became a major spaghetti western star. He doesn’t just dominate Day of Anger, he owns the film as a Frank Talby, a smiling gunman who rides into the thoroughly corrupt town of Clifton, Arizona (which, of course, is actually Almería, Spain) to […]