Sean Axmaker

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Johnnie To has been Hong Kong’s modern crime movie master for decades now, responsible for such contemporary classics as The Mission (1999), PTU (2003), Election (2005), Vengeance (2009), and Drug War (2012). For Exiled (Hong Kong, 2006), he delivers an elegant genre exercise. Though not technically a sequel to The Mission, most of that film’s cast are back in comparable roles and a premise that turns a simple hit into a buddy crime odyssey.

3 weeks ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

Five years after Captain Blood made him a swashbuckling star, Errol Flynn returned to the high seas as privateer Captain Geoffrey Thorpe in The Sea Hawk (1940). Flynn plays the dashing gentleman pirate as dedicated patriot, looting Spanish ships for English coffers with the private blessing of Queen Elizabeth I (Flora Robson, reprising her role from Fire Over England).

4 weeks ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

Owen Wilson plays a former pro golfer who bets his future on a teenage golf phenom (Peter Dager) in the feel-good comedy “Stick” (Apple TV+, 6/4), costarring Marc Maron and Timothy Olyphant. A tight knit group of rich socialites are plunged into paranoia and suspicion after a mysterious accident in the limited series mystery thriller “We Were Liars” (Prime Video, 6/18). Emily Alyn Lind stars in the adaptation of the bestselling novel along with Caitlin FitzGerald, Mamie Gummer, and David Morse.

4 weeks ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

Body horror meets social commentary in The Substance (2024), a viscerally grotesque and savagely caustic satire of the commodification of beauty and sex and the impossible standards by which women are measured. Demi Moore gives a career-redefining performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a one-time superstar now headlining a TV exercise program that the shallow network boss Harvey (a gleefully vulgar Dennis Quaid) wants to recast with fresh blood.

4 weeks ago | streamondemandathome.com | Sean Axmaker

Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman had been essentially exiled from Hollywood for a decade, making small indie productions and films for TV and cable, when he came roaring back with The Player (1992). Both a sly thriller set in the world of Hollywood studio filmmaking and a wry show business satire with an enormous supporting cast of Hollywood stars playing themselves, it was acerbic, witty, and popular with both the general public and the Hollywood community.