Tag: Michael Douglas

‘Haywire’ – bad-ass action on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/10/202104/10/2021 Sean Axmaker

Haywire (2011) is Steven Soderbergh’s drive-in assassin action movie by way of a sleek art-house conspiracy thriller. According to the director, the film sprung from his desire to develop a film around the talents and skill of mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano, and the finished film — which casts Carano as a covert agent […]

Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher star in the film directed by Milos Forman

‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/28/202101/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

A rare screen adaptation of a beloved novel to maintain the emotional and dramatic power of the original while establishing its own distinctive approach to the story, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) is an underdog masterpiece. Jack Nicholson stars as Randle P. McMurphy, a wild man of a petty crook who fakes insanity […]

Paul Rudd is Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man. in the Marvel superhero movie directed by Peyton Reed.

‘Ant-Man’ – Marvel gets small on Disney+

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, caper, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, superheroes, SVOD 10/20/202010/20/2020 Sean Axmaker

Ant-Man (2015) hit theaters with a slightly different approach for a Marvel superhero movie. It’s more playful and comic, with a reluctant hero who has a motley crew of buddies and a mentor with a sly sense of humor as well a drive for justice, and while the stakes are big (stopping a tech giant […]