Mark Strong – Stream On Demand

Aaron Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Nicolas Cage star in the superhero movie by Matthew Vaughn

‘Kick-Ass’ – wicked superhero fun on Netflix, Hulu and Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Last chance, Netflix, satire, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD, thriller 07/29/2023 Sean Axmaker

This darkly satirical superhero movie, based on the uber-violent comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., tosses a high school teenager into a crime-fighting culture he isn’t the least bit prepared for.

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, DVD, Peacock, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller, war 01/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jessica Chastain stars in the searing story of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and legacy of torture in America’s war on terror.

Russell Crowe is ‘Robin Hood’

!Featured, Action, adventure, Blu-ray, DVD, historical, Hulu, Netflix, Streaming Movies 11/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott directs this muscular action adventure that reimagines the classic English tale with a new origin story, costarring Cate Blanchett and Oscar Isaac.

Robert Downey Jr. is ‘Sherlock Holmes’ in Guy Ritchie’s film on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, historical, literary adaptation, Max, Mystery, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Guy Ritchie brings his slick crime movie style to the old-school detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle in this reinvention of the character as an action hero.

‘Sunshine’ – Set the controls to the heart of the sun on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, horror, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Danny Boyle delivers a science fiction thriller with majestic imagery that adds grace and awe to a story built on rickety science.

Helen Mirren is Jane Tennison in 'Prime Suspect'

The Complete ‘Prime Suspect’ with Helen Mirren on BritBox

!Featured, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, BritBox, British TV, DVD, Streaming TV, SVOD 10/18/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Helen Mirren got the role of a lifetime playing DCI Jane Tennison, a tough, tenacious, at times brittle woman in a brutally chauvinist British police culture in a series of smart mysteries.

Francis McDormand in ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, feel good movies, historical, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/22/2021 Sean Axmaker

The bouncy little screwball romance Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) is a fizzy cocktail of a movie set in depression-era London, where the beautiful people dance away in fabulous fashions and decadent distraction. Frances McDormand is the dowdy Guinevere Pettigrew, a buttoned-down yet free-thinking governess whose unorthodox ways have landed her on the […]