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Nicolas Cage and John Travolta ‘Face/Off’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

John Woo, the action maestro of Hong Kong cinema, is working at the top of his game in this double-barreled revenge thriller built around an absurd premise, outsized emotions, and one show-stopping action set-piece after another.

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

Last chance: ‘Kick-Ass’ – wicked superhero fun on Hulu

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Hulu, Last chance, satire, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD, thriller 08/23/2021 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.

Nicolas Cage in Andrew Niccol's 'Lord of War'

Nicolas Cage is the ‘Lord of War’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, satire, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 03/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

“There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That’s one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?” The opening line of Andrew Niccol’s Lord of War (2005) captures the film in a phrase: it’s serious, it’s sardonic, and it has both a […]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in Oliver Stone's "Snowden."

Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/02/2020 Sean Axmaker

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is disillusioned idealist Edward Snowden in Snowden (2016), Oliver Stone’s drama about the controversial NSA whistleblower. Framed by the famous meeting in a Hong Kong hotel room where Snowden (played with modest integrity by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) shared top-secret files revealing illegal surveillance programs with journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and documentarian Laura Poitras […]

‘Vampire’s Kiss’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/24/2019 Sean Axmaker

Nicolas Cage is perfectly cast in the devious black comedy Vampire’s Kiss (1989) as a New York literary agent whose latest one night stand lands him in bed with vampire Jennifer Beals, who takes a big, bloody bite out of his identity. The emotionally unstable executive develops an aversion to sunlight, a fear of crosses, […]

Nicolas Cage stars in the surreal sequel directed by Werner Herzog

‘Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 06/07/2018 Sean Axmaker

Neither remake nor sequel in any conventional sense of the terms, Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009) takes the basic premise out of the Abel Ferrara universe of guilt and redemption and drops it into post-Katrina New Orleans and the Herzog world of indifferent and unforgiving nature. It really is a […]

Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe star in the squalid pulp crime drama directed by Paul Schrader

‘Dog Eat Dog’ on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies 01/26/2017 Sean Axmaker

Dog Eat Dog (2016) – Paul Schrader brings his intelligence to a squalid pulp crime drama of small-time thugs who impulses and instincts manage to screw up what should be a simple job. Nicolas Cage is Troy, the ostensible ringleader of the trio, recently paroled and celebrating his release at a strip club with fellow […]