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Sean Axmaker

Seattle

Writer and Critic at Freelance

Film guy, home video columnist, love silent films and noir

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  • Kirk Douglas is the ‘Young Man with a Horn’ on Max

    6 days ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

    Kirk Douglas is jazz trumpeter Rick Martin, an orphan slum kid whose musical youth is fostered by a black bluesman (Juano Hernandez), in Young Man with a Horn (1950). Rick’s defiant individualism is both his weakness and his strength. A born soloist, he just can’t seem to limit himself to the notes on the page. That’s a problem when he wants to play jazz in a swinging dance band in the big band era, which means he keeps losing jobs.

  • Sutton Foster is ‘Younger’ on Netflix

    1 week ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

    Sex and the City creator Darren Star has a knack for making lively, sexy, engaging TV shows featuring strong women characters juggling professional challenges, romantic complications, and female friendships in the modern world. Younger (2015-2021), based on the novel by Pamela Redmond Satran and created for the cable channel TV Land, adds a new twist to the genre.

  • ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ - Chinese noir on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

    1 week ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

    A slow burn crime thriller from China, The Wild Goose Lake (China, 2019) follows a small-time mob leader on the run after killing a cop. Zhou Zenong (Hu Ge) runs a small gang within a kind of thieves’ guild where he collides with a rival gang that tries to take him out. In his getaway from an ambush he shoots a patrolman and the police put a bounty on his head.

  • Jeremy Irons plays ‘Dead Ringers’ on Prime Video and Criterion Channel

    2 weeks ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

    From the beginning of his career, David Cronenberg has pushed the boundaries of horror, conceptually as well as viscerally, but he left the realm of horror and science for mesmerizing psychological drama with Dead Ringers (1988).

  • ‘Smoke Signals’ - life on and off the Rez on Paramount+

    2 weeks ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

    Modern reservation life received its first real big screen treatment in Smoke Signals (1998). Written by Sherman Alexie, who adapted his own short stories, and directed by Chris Eyre, it was the first feature made by a Native American crew and creative team and it shows in the details and atmosphere and rhythms of the film.

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Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker @seanaxmaker
21 Jan 23

Parallax View’s Best of 2022 https://t.co/ZSPRUODzKT

Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker @seanaxmaker
7 Oct 22

Saturdays in October, the robots take over @tcm . It kicks off tomorrow with 'Metropolis' and 'Forbidden Planet,' two landmarks of science ficton featuring two of the greatest cinematic robots. https://t.co/HlkxKIr9z4

Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker @seanaxmaker
26 Jul 22

William Richert on ‘Winter Kills’ https://t.co/W2qIqc3a1f