Tag: Rutger Hauer

‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’ – the definitive version of a visionary film on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, National Film Registry, Netflix, Science Fiction, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/04/202109/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott’s visionary reworking of Philip K. Dick’s novel may have flopped when it was released but it has become a science fiction touchstone and has colonized the imaginations of writers, directors, and die-hard fans of science fiction.

Christian Bale is Batman in Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins'

‘Batman Begins’ – Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, superheroes, SVOD 06/01/202106/01/2021 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

One of the defining films in the elevation of comic book movies to adult fare, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005) rebooted the Batman mythos for the big screen, bringing the often lighthearted hero back to the shadows, both figuratively and literally. It’s quite a leap from the previous Batman revival launched by Tim Burton’s 1989 […]

Rutger Hauer stars in the grindhouse tribute from Jason Eisener

‘Hobo with a Shotgun’ blasts its way to Amazon Prime

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/19/202105/20/2021 Sean Axmaker

Originally concocted as a faux trailer for the Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse Trailer Competition and later expanded in an utterly unhinged feature in its own right, Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) is a blood-spattered love letter to the grindhouse vengeance movie by first-time filmmakers who, as Spinal Tap might put it, crank everything […]

'Sin City' from Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller

‘Sin City’ – hard-boiled pulp fiction on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 10/01/201910/01/2019 Sean Axmaker

In Sin City (2005), Robert Rodriguez pulls out all stylistic stops to translate the most graphic of graphic novels—Frank Miller’s Sin City tales, all hard-boiled tributes to pulp fiction and film noir—from two-dimensional pages to free-floating big screen action, and he drafted Miller to help master not just the look, but whole hard-boiled extremism. Men […]

Rutger Hauer in ‘Legend of the Holy Drinker’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/26/201907/26/2019 Sean Axmaker

“I have no home. I sleep under bridges. A different bridge every night. But I am a man of honor.” Rutger Hauer delivers his most delicate and nuanced performance as Andreas Kartak, a homeless alcoholic in Paris in Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), Ermanno Olmi’s adaptation of Joseph Roth’s novella. Andreas, who frequents taverns […]