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‘Haywire’ – bad-ass action on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Peacock, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 11/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

Steven Soderbergh builds this collision of drive-in assassin action movie and sleek art-house conspiracy thriller around the talents of MMA fighter Gina Carano.

Shauna Macdonald stars in the subterranean horror from Neil Marshall

‘The Descent’ – subterranean horror on Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, Max, SVOD, thriller 07/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

Neil Marshall’s nerve wracking, claustrophobic survival thriller about six spelunking women turns into a gripping horror film featuring the creepiest cave dwellers to skitter across a screen.

Leaving soon: The original ‘The Wicker Man’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, Mystery, religion, suspense, SVOD 06/25/2023 Sean Axmaker

Modern Christianity collides with ancient Pagan beliefs when an English policeman investigates a disappearance on a remote Scottish island living a happy “heathen” lifestyle in this classic of folk horror.

Ethan Hawke in the film by Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader’s ‘First Reformed’ on HBO Max and free on Kanopy

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Kanopy, Max, religion, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/13/2022 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Ethan Hawke stars as a pastor whose search for spiritual meaning and redemption sends him into a spiral of despair and obsession in this late career masterpiece from Paul Schrader.

Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner appear in Wind River by Taylor Sheridan, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. © 2016 Sundance Institute.

Last chance: ‘Wind River’ – Frontier justice on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen star in the lean, stripped down crime thriller set in the Wyoming wilderness, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan (creator of ‘Yellowstone’).

Emayatzy Corinealdi in Ava Duverny's 'Middle of Nowhere'

Ava DuVernay’s ‘Middle of Nowhere’ on Netflix and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, Netflix, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 05/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

This intimate drama about a woman who put her aspirations on hold when her husband goes to prison earned awards at Sundance and the Independent Spirit Awards.

‘Enchanted April’ – an Italian escape

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

Four women break out of their confined lives and roles when they rent a Italian villa in this romantic drama of reawakening. Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker, and Joan Plowright costar with the beautiful Mediterranean landscape.

Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, and Riley Keough star in the horror thriller from Trey Edward Shults

‘It Comes at Night’ on Netflix and free on Kanopy

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, Kanopy, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 12/09/2019 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

The title of It Comes at Night (2017) sets certain expectations. What exactly comes at night? But the survival thriller from writer/director Trey Edward Shults, set sometime after the ravages of an unnamed and unexplained plague have ripped through the cities and sent survivors into the isolation of the wilderness, isn’t about monsters (human or […]

James Marsden and Evan Rachel Wood in HBO's 'Westworld'

TVD: ‘Westworld’ reborn, ‘American Gods’ debuts, the beginning of the end of ‘Game of Thrones’

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, DVD 12/14/2017 Sean Axmaker

Westworld: Season One – The Maze (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) Michael Crichton’s 1973 film Westworld was a clever science fiction thriller about a theme park that provided interactive adventures with robotic hosts. The 2016 series developed and produced for HBO by Jonathan Nolan (Person of Interest) and his creative partner and wife Lisa Joy uses the […]

Blu-ray round-up: Boxes of ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ and ‘Hellraiser,’ anniversary editions of ‘Jerry Maguire’ and ‘Dirty Dancing,’ and more

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review 02/08/2017 Sean Axmaker

I try to keep up on the most interesting releases on Blu-ray and DVD but I don’t have the time to cover everything in the detail it deserves. Here are some of the special editions and stand-out releases that have come out over the past few weeks. The Man Who Fell To Earth (Lionsgate, Blu-ray), […]