Samantha Morton – Stream On Demand

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’ on Paramount+ and MGM

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a short story, Blu-ray, DVD, MGM+, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller 11/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Tom Cruise is a cop who arrests criminals before they commit crimes in the future shock crime thriller based on a story by sci-fi visionary Philip K. Dick.

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 08/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

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

Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain in Liv Ullman's 'Miss Julie'

Jessica Chastain is ‘Miss Julie’ – free on Kanopy

!Featured, adapted from the stage, based on a play, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Free, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/10/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Liv Ullman directs Chastain and Colin Farrell in her screen adaptation of the classic August Strindberg play, which she relocates to Ireland.

‘Code 46’ – a science fiction detective story

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Mystery, Science Fiction, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/14/2021 Sean Axmaker

Tim Robbins is a detective in a sterile, emotionally-stifling future in Michael Winterbottom’s overlooked contribution to smart science fiction cinema.

Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson star the homefront war drama directed by Oren Movermen

‘The Messenger’ – The bearer of bad news on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 04/16/2018 Sean Axmaker

In The Messenger (2009), combat veteran Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) may be “a goddamn hero,” in the words of his commanding officer, but in the final months of his enlistment he’s assigned to the most challenging mission of his career: casualty notification and the emotional minefield of civilians dealing with the death of a loved […]

Samantha Morton, Tahar Rahim, and John Hurt star in the sprawling BBC heist thriller 'The Last Panthers'

‘The Last Panthers’ on Hulu

!Featured, British TV, Hulu, Streaming TV 07/17/2016 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

The Last Panthers (2015) are the final incarnation of the infamous international network of jewel thieves formed by criminals and soldiers of fortune from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The Pink Panthers are indeed real but this TV mini-series is fiction, a sprawling story that opens on a jewel heist in the French port […]