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Sean Axmaker

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Biography:

Sean Axmaker writes the weekly newspaper column Stream On Demand and the companion website Stream On Demand at Home, is a contributing writer for Turner Classic Movies Online and Noir City, and the editor of Parallax View. He was a film critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for nine years and a longtime home video columnist for IMDb and MSN Movies, and his work has appeared in Indiewire, Today.com, The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Senses of Cinema, Asian Cult Cinema, Filmfax, Psychotronic Video, and "The Scarecrow Video Guide."

Favorites:

My favorite director: Howard Hawks My director obsession: Orson Welles My favorite films: choose from Touch of Evil (Orson Wells, 1958), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976), Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), and any number of Howard Hawks films Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and the vastly under-appreciated Hatari! (1962) Favorite performer: Burt Lancaster and his million dollar smile.

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Seattle, WA

Official Website:

http://www.streamondemandathome.com

Reviews

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Godzilla 1985 (1984) “It’s still a guy in a suit stomping through lovingly detailed miniatures, and by American standards it’ll always have that delightfully cheesy camp element, but this painstakingly crafted affair is one of the easier series efforts to take seriously. ” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Godzilla 1985 (1984) 27% “It’s still a guy in a suit stomping through lovingly detailed miniatures, and by American standards it’ll always have that delightfully cheesy camp element, but this painstakingly crafted affair is one of the easier series efforts to take seriously.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Margaret (2011) 75% “It’s a powerful, provocative, ambitious drama set in the shadow of September 11, 2001, a marvelously messy film about the messiness of emotions and people and relationships, especially as they are tested in extreme circumstances.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) 74% “It’s a perversely cynical sex comedy with a brass heart and a thoroughly modern twist of a happy ending and Wilder and co-screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond, adapting an Italian sex farce, revel in the smutty garishness of the whole situation. ” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Ismael's Ghosts (2017) 51% “It’s raw and funny and angry and loving, with rich and complex characters and relationships ...” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Ed Wood (1994) 92% “... Tim Burton’s loving film biography... is perhaps the most loving portrait of a filmmaker ever put on screen. ” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Separate Tables (1958) 68% “It’s an intelligent, handsome drama crafted from a very British play, played with quiet desperation under good manners and that classic reticence to break out of the bunch and be an individual.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review And God Created Woman (1956) 71% “The directorial debut of Roger Vadim is more titillation than continental cool, but its teasing display of sex and eroticism in the sunny vacation playground of the St. Tropez seashore ushered in the era of continental attitudes toward sex.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Avanti! (1972) 79% “[Director Billy] Wilder takes his time with the pacing and the result is a classic romantic comedy of the modern American world colliding with the provincial Italian way of life ...” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Suspicion (1941) 97% “Smooth and suspenseful, it’s a handsome and elegant romantic thriller and Hitchcock creates suspense from simple sequences with ominous angles and lighting. ” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Dead Ringers (1988) 86% “[David] Cronenberg created a startling film where the horror lies in the psyche: the conjoined relationship between two brothers, who share everything as if they were two parts of a whole, which pulls them both down in a spiral of madness.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% “[Sherman] Alexie’s screenplay is full of modest but vivid details and first-time director Eyre has an almost effortless touch in getting them on the screen with an easy mosaic-like mix of snapshots of life on the Rez and on the road mixed. ” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review The Tree of Life (2011) 85% “The film is more kaleidoscopic than linear, filled with privileged moments of magic and terror, of remembered shards of treasured memories that have become idealized snapshot, and moments that are more textured evocations of emotions and anxieties.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Stranger Than Fiction (2006) 73% “There’s more than a touch of Charlie Kaufman absurdity to Zach Helm’s screenplay but it’s warmer and less caustic in the way it uses fantasy to plumb human emotions and examines the nature of storytelling.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Young Man With a Horn (1950) 86% “It’s glossy with just a little grit, punctuated with high drama and entertaining flourishes of personality, and filled with music.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) 83% “[Director John] Farrow brings is a palpable sense of the ominous.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Pride & Prejudice (2005) 87% “[Keira] Knightly sparks as Elizabeth, an intelligent and ambitious young woman in a society that doesn’t allows for opportunities for such women.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% “'Companion' cleverly plays with its mix of genres—romantic comedy, science fiction, crime thriller, splatter comedy—against a wicked satire of toxic male entitlement.” – Stream on Demand Apr 26, 2025 Full Review The Yakuza (1974) 47% “The performances are excellent and the mix of East and West interesting, but the direction fails to bring out the heart of the material.” – Stream on Demand Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Strangers on a Train (1951) 98% “... one of Alfred Hitchcock’s undisputed masterpieces, a thriller of demented wish fulfillment turned into a waking nightmare that turns on a chance meeting.” – Stream on Demand Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Mr. Brooks (2007) 56% “It’s oddly entertaining, as long as you lower your threshold of disbelief ...” – Stream on Demand Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Still Walking (2008) 100% “Kore-Eda is marvelous with these little moments, at observing the reverberations of discomfort around the table at a family meal after a thoughtless remark or a bitter rebuke... or watching the still life of a family at rest.” – Stream on Demand Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) “The story could have easily slipped into the cliché of the innocent corrupted by the predatory femme fatale, but there’s much more to both characters in this unassuming thriller directed by Felix Feist.” – Stream on Demand Feb 8, 2025 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% “It’s more character study than dramatic odyssey, a restrained, low-key road movie that touches on loss, generational trauma, and the legacy of the Holocaust without trying to make it the focus.” – Stream on Demand Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Alphaville (1965) 92% “Jean-Luc Godard’s sole foray science fiction drama stirs “1984” and “Brave New World” into a pulp fiction private eye thriller.” – Stream on Demand Feb 8, 2025 Full Review
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