Reese Witherspoon – Stream On Demand

Adam Sandler is ‘Little Nicky’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Comedy, DVD, fantasy, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/16/2022 Sean Axmaker

Sandler plays the sweetly devoted doofus son of Satan (played by Harvey Keitel) trying to figure out life on Earth in this goofball comedy.

Matthew McConaughey is ‘Mud’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, childhood, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/22/2021 Sean Axmaker

The third film from director Jeff Nichols is a story of childhood adventure steeped in the rural culture of life on the Mississippi and the mythology of Huckleberry Finn, but this boy’s adventure is also tangled in the world of adults and family bonds.

Reese Witherspoon in Alexander Payne's satire 'Election' with Matthew Broderick

‘Election’ – Vote Tracy Flick on Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, Election Special, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, high school, Hulu, Politics, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/01/2020 Sean Axmaker

Alexander Payne’s wicked satire of power and (social) politics set in the overheated incubator of a high school student body election is as sharp and perceptive now as it was in 1999.

Alain Demon in Jean-Pierre Melville's French crime classic

Criterion Blu-ray: Alexander Payne’s savagely funny ‘Election,’ plus ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,’ ‘Le Samouraï,’ and ‘Jabberwocky’

Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collecton, DVD 12/18/2017 Sean Axmaker

Election (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) A wicked satire of power and (social) politics set in the overheated incubator of a high school student body election, Election (1999) is as sharp and perceptive now as it was in 1999. The confident second feature from director Alexander Payne and his screenwriting partner, Jim Taylor (coming off the critical […]

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in 'Inherent Vice,' Paul Thomas Anderson's loopy take on Thomas Pynchon's dope-infused private eye novel.

‘Inherent Vice’ on VOD

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD 05/25/2016 Sean Axmaker

Inherent Vice (2014), Paul Thomas Anderson’s loopy take on Thomas Pynchon’s dope-infused private eye novel, earned Anderson an Oscar nomination for his ingenious screenplay adaptation and critical raves for the rich pageant of eccentrics and oddballs bouncing through 1970 Los Angeles with a post-sixties hangover. I never read Pynchon’s novel so I’ll take the word […]