Samantha Morton – Stream On Demand

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a short story, Blu-ray, DVD, Peacock, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller 04/26/2022 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 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.

‘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.

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

Jessica Chastain is ‘Miss Julie’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, adapted from the stage, Amazon Prime Video, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/08/2018 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

You can imagine Miss Julie (2014), Liv Ullman’s screen adaptation of the August Strindberg play, as a call back to the classic 1951 Swedish screen adaptation by Alf Sjöberg, who was a mentor to Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish master who directed Ullman to some of her greatest performances. Ullman directed Bergman’s screenplay in Faithless and […]

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 […]