Paul Giamatti – Stream On Demand

Animated feature from France based on the graphic novels of Jacques Tardi

Leaving soon: ‘April and the Extraordinary World’ – Steampunk animated adventure on Criterion Channel

!Featured, adventure, Animation, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, childhood, Criterion Channel, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Science Fiction, SVOD 05/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

A teenage street urchin in an alternate reality Paris battles a mysterious organization kidnapping the greatest minds in the world in this playful fantasy fable.

Ryan Gosling and George Clooney star in 'The Ides of March'

George Clooney faces ‘The Ides of March’ on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a play, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Hulu, Politics, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD 03/22/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Ryan Gosling is the savvy campaign operative who becomes disillusioned in in his candidate in this political drama directed by and costarring George Clooney.

Last chance: ‘Sideways’ – a road trip through wine country on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Hulu, road movie, Romance, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 07/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Alexander Payne’s road movie about best friends taking a bachelor party on the road through California vineyard country is a modern buddy film with a seventies sensibility.

Paul Giamatti is John Adams in the HBO miniseries

‘John Adams’ and the birth of American democracy on HBO Max

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Paul Giamatti is American Revolution hero and second American President John Adams in this fascinating miniseries adapted from the acclaimed biography by David McCullough.

Tim Burton visits the ‘Planet of the Apes’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, remake, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Mark Wahlberg stars as the American astronaut who lands on a planet where apes rule and humans drool and Helena Bonham Carter is the simian who supports human rights.

Robert Pattinson stars in David Cronenberg's creen adaptation of Don Delillo's sprawling novel

David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Pattinson is the financial kingpin trapped in a bubble in an alienated world in the adaptation of the Don Delillo novel.

Paul Dano is Brian Wilson in 'Love & Mercy'

‘Love & Mercy’ – Brian Wilson’s journey on HBO Max

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Max, music, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/26/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Paul Dano and John Cusack play the troubled genius at different stages of his life in this fascinating film about the early exhuberance of his creative talents and his second chance after a crisis.

What to stream: ‘Private Life’ and Monty Python on Netflix, ‘Into the Dark’ and ‘RBG’ on Hulu, ‘Leave No Trace’ on VOD

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Streaming Movies, SVOD, What to Stream 10/05/2018 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn star as a married couple struggling to have kids late in life in Private Life (2018, not rated), a spiky drama with comic edges from director […]

'Straight Outta Compton': The story of N.W.A.

‘Straight Outta Compton’ on VOD and disc

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, music, socially aware cinema 09/21/2017 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Billed as “The World’s Most Dangerous Group,” N.W.A. was a musical bomb that blew up the hip-hop world with such force that the reverberations were felt all through popular culture. Straight Outta Compton, developed by N.W.A. founding members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre and directed by F. Gary Gray, dramatizes origins and impact of the […]

Ken Burns’s ‘Prohibition’ on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, Documentary, DVD, Netflix, Streaming TV 03/07/2017 Sean Axmaker

Prohibition (2011), Ken Burns’ portrait of “the Noble Experiment” turned American disaster, follows Burns’s trademark approach to American history by putting big events into perspective through the personal stories of both significant historical figures and the everyday citizens. That’s particularly effective in the story of prohibition, which traditionally is presented in terms of the activism […]