Rachel McAdams – Stream On Demand

Lindsay Lohan vs. the ‘Mean Girls’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Based on a nonfiction book, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, high school, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, young adult 02/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

This satire of teenage girl behavior and high school cliques, written by Tina Fey, features a breakout performance by Rachel McAdams.

Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, and Brian d'Arcy James in 'Spotlight,' directed by Tom McCarthy.

Oscar-winning drama ‘Spotlight’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Max, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/04/2022 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Tom McCarthy’s drama of the Boston Globe’s investigative team that revealed the Catholic Church’s cover-up of its priests who abuse children, is the kind of film that takes on the Big Subject with modesty and self-reflection.

Last chance: ‘State of Play’ – political intrigue with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Netflix, Peacock, Politics, remake, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Politics, journalism, and murder swirl through the American adaptation of the sharp, award-winning British mini-series, costarring Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman.

Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'

‘Midnight in Paris’ – a love letter to the city of lights on Prime Video and Paramount

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, historical, movies about art, movies about literature, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/11/2022 Sean Axmaker

Owen Wilson is an American in Paris who get transported back in time to the company of the Lost Generation artists of the twenties in the romantic comedy from Woody Allen.

‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ – the legendary detective as cheeky action hero on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, historical, Max, Mystery, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/11/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law returns as Holmes and Watson in Guy Ritchie’s sequel to his action-packed revision of the Holmes stories.

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.

‘The Family Stone’ – Home for the holidays on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Christmas, Comedy, drama, DVD, feel good movies, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Claire Danes, and Diane Keaton are just a few of the stars in this comedy of a warmly dysfunctional family Christmas.

Benedict Cumberbatch is the Master of the Mystic Arts in the Marvel Studios movie

‘Doctor Strange’ – Sorcerer Supreme on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, fantasy, Streaming Movies, superheroes, supernatural, SVOD 01/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Marvel’s magic-wielding superhero in this mystic entry in the MCU from director Scott Derrickson.

‘A Most Wanted Man’ on Hulu and free on Hoopla

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Hulu, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD, thriller 06/13/2021 Sean Axmaker

A Most Wanted Man (2014) is the final film completed by Philip Seymour Hoffman before his untimely death in 2014. That alone is reason enough to see the film, adapted from the post 9/11 novel by John le Carré and directed by Anton Corbijn, a music video veteran who becomes more accomplished with each feature. […]

Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams in Brian De Palma's remake of Love Crimes

Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Mystery, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD, thriller 09/26/2017 Sean Axmaker

There isn’t a lot of passion in Brian De Palma’s Passion (2012, R) but there is a love of kinkiness, flirtation, sensation, and the thrill of playing big business games and an odd intimacy that we don’t always get in De Palma’s coolly observed, stylistically exacting cinema. The opening scene has an easy intimacy of […]