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SEAN AXMAKER

"When I’m not watching movies: I’m usually writing or asleep."

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Biography: I am a film critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a DVD columnist for the MSN (http://movies.msn.com/new-on-dvd/), and a frequent contributor to MSN Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies Online, Greencine.com, and Asian Cult Cinema. I have written for Amazing Stories and Psychotronic Video, have written hundreds of video reviews for Amazon.com, and I have over 1,000 reviews and essays in the Scarecrow Movie Guide. I live alone with my 2 cats, I love movies by Howard Hawks and Orson Welles, will watch anything with Burt Lancaster or Humphrey Bogart in it, and hope I never have to grow up and get a real job.

Favorites: And now the important stuff: My favorite director: Howard Hawks My director obsession: Orson Welles My favorite films: choose from The Searchers (John Ford, 1956), Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1949), French Can-Can (Jean Renoir, 1955), Touch of Evil (Orson Wells, 1958), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976), Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), and any number of Howard Hawks films – Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Red River (1948), The Thing From Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Rio Bravo (1959), and the vastly under-appreciated Hatari! (1962) Favorite performer: Burt Lancaster and his million dollar smile.

Publications: GreenCine, MSN.com, Nitrate Online, Parallax View, Reel Film Reviews, Seanax.com, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, St@tic Multimedia, Turner Classic Movies Online

Critics' Group: Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews: 1754
Total QuickRatings: 2

Location: Seattle, Washington

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Fresh	Fresh 100%	La Ronde (1950)	" ... a film of sparking wit, visual grace, continental sophistication and elegant poise." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Taxi Driver (1976)	" ... a portrait in psychosis and dislocation with a protagonist whose racism and intolerance becomes his excuse to unleash his anger in a violent spree under the guise of heroism." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)	" Both formally exacting and highly stylized, it's both a bold redefinition of "realism" and a radical, unprecedented approach to presenting the lives of women on screen." — Turner Classic Movies Online DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 77%	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)	" It has a remarkable (if playfully skewed) fidelity to the epic poem of mythical struggle, even if the filmmaking brother act never actually read Homer's work..." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Duellists (1978)	" Interiors are bathed in the golden light of candlelight and nostalgia, like a period painting in motion, while exteriors are wrapped in fog and mist." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Z (1969)	" ... thrilling, compelling, run through with vivid supporting characters and narrative twists and turns that have the dramatic punch of fiction even when based on real events." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	Ballast (2008)	" ... intimate but restrained, bringing us past their defenses and into their faces and their eyes." — Turner Classic Movies Online DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	A World Apart (1988)	" ... there is a strong social consciousness and political content, but [Chris] Menges also brings a subdued dramatic atmosphere and rich visual sensibility to the film..." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)	" Basil Rathbone still remains the definitive screen Sherlock Holmes for many of the character's fans." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Taste of Cherry (1997)	" Taste of Cherry confirmed Kiarostami as the most acclaimed director of Iran's rich film culture..." — Turner Classic Movies Online Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2009)	" ... an odd hybrid of the original film and the slick 3D computer animation scenes, which is great for the cyber-imagery but... has less personality when it is used on the characters..." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Gimme Shelter (1970)	" ... put a frame around the notorious Altamont Speedway free concert that became the grim bookend to the decade." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	A Christmas Tale (2008)	" ... arrives on DVD in a presentation worthy of it." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Funny People (2009)	" ... a character drama in the guise of a show-biz comedy." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 91%	Gomorrah (2009)	" [Matteo] Garrone... brings a clear-eyed approach to the film and captures an atmosphere of destruction and waste in a landscape of urban blight and poverty." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Superman: The Animated Series - Vol. 1 (1996)	" ... the series is nicely crafted and far more engaging than the old sixties and seventies cartoon incarnations." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Marty (1953)	" [Rod] Steiger's body language communicate not just his loneliness but his resignation to living out his life as "a fat, ugly little man."" — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Comedian (1957)	" ... [a] feral performance by Mickey Rooney and the almost claustrophobic intensity created by director John Frankenheimer..." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Golden Age of Television (2009)	" The title is no hyperbole: For a brief period in the 1950s... a handful of showcase anthology shows turned live television theater into the vibrant center of original American drama." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	The Exiles (1961)	" There's no uplifting message here and the internal monologues that accompany their wanderings speak of desires and anxieties and disappointments that appear doomed to repeat themselves." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	My Effortless Brilliance (2008)	" There's not much narrative shape to the film but a tremendously authentic texture to the relationship." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 79%	Humpday (2009)	" This audience-friendly indie sex comedy features almost no sex but plenty of nervous male bonding and a whole new angle on performance anxiety." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 93%	Near Dark (1987)	" Bigelow's night shooting has a stiletto crispness to it, her daytime scenes have a foggy haze, and her sunlight sears like a laser..." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Gone With the Wind (1939)	" It looks magnificent in its Blu-ray debut, with color that looks as if it's lit from within, a particular kind of warmth unique to this era of Technicolor..." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 77%	Downhill Racer (1969)	" ... the downhill runs are shot and edited with a visceral quality that takes us off the sidelines and into the skier's perspective." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	The General (1927)	" *To the best of my knowledge, Kino's The General* is the first silent film to get the high-definition Blu-ray treatment, and deservedly so.*" — Seanax.com* DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Bhowani Junction (1956)	" ... a Hollywood drama with an old-fashioned sense of storytelling and a modern (for the time) approach to colonialism, bigotry and identity." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Gabriel Over the White House (1933)	" Gregory La Cava's 1933 New Deal fantasy is one of the strangest political films to escape the studios." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 36%	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)	" ... it's actually better (again, the wrong word; "not nearly as awful" is closer to correct) than the recent Transformers sequel, and significantly shorter to boot." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 98%	Up (2009)	" ... it's another excellent Disney disc with well-produced supplements designed to appeal to adults and children alike." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Justice League Unlimited - The Complete Seasons 1 & 2 (2001)	" Choppy relationships, clashing personalities... and lots of suspicion make these teammates a contentious (and interesting) group." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Justice League Unlimited - The Complete Second Season (2001)	" Choppy relationships, clashing personalities... and lots of suspicion make these teammates a contentious (and interesting) group." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Justice League Unlimited - The Complete First Season ()	" Choppy relationships, clashing personalities... and lots of suspicion make these teammates a contentious (and interesting) group." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Justice League of America - Season 2 ()	" Choppy relationships, clashing personalities... and lots of suspicion make these teammates a contentious (and interesting) group." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Justice League of America - Season 1 ()	" Choppy relationships, clashing personalities... and lots of suspicion make these teammates a contentious (and interesting) group." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days (2009)	" The nostalgia factor is pretty irresistible for adults and playful approach of education and gentle tenor of its skits makes it perfect of children of any generation..." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	North by Northwest (1959)	" The Blu-ray edition... has a stunning richness and clarity that practically glows in gorgeous overripe Technicolor hues: pure Hollywood gloss." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Tall Target (1951)	" ... a film full of dynamic images and marvelous grace notes." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 81%	Unmistaken Child (2009)	" Along the way, we are treated to a tour of spiritual belief, Buddhist ceremony and rural life in this remote region." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	The Dead (1988)	" ... a perfect cinematic short story attuned to the rituals and touchy relationships of family and friends gathering in early twentieth century Dublin..." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 6, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Black Adder - The Complete Black Adder (1986)	" *Just for the sheer quantity of laughs in its wild comic situations and outrageously extreme characters, Black Adder* is one of the great British TV comedies.*" — Seanax.com* Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)	" ... neither sequel nor prequel to show but an imaginative bookend, a retelling of the saga in digest form from the Cylon perspective." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Underworld, U.S.A. (1960)	" ... like the gangster figures of the 1930s, he sees only himself and the world around him and treats everything/everyone else as a stepping stone or an obstacle." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Crimson Kimono (1959)	" ... filmed with great moments of location atmosphere, [this] is one of Fuller's most striking commentaries on race." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Scandal Sheet (1952)	" ... directed by Phil Karlson with a suitably sleazy atmosphere of journalistic cynicism." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 83%	Shockproof (1949)	" ... a minor noir with Fuller's tabloid sensibility and Sirk's romantic gloss, directed with an economy that makes the most of its modest budget." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 73%	Night of the Creeps (1986)	" This is a terrific B-movie, full of genre love and filled with tributes to Dekker's horror movie heroes..." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Il Divo (2009)	" ... not so much a savage satire as one disenchanted with the institutional corruption of politics." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 47%	Whatever Works (2009)	" ... while it's a return to the neurotic comedies that made [Allen's] reputation, it's also more affectionate and likable than the films of his pre-Europe slump." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 5, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Death in the Garden (1956)	" ... a wonderfully cynical thriller filled with brilliant Bunuelian flourishes and a grim sense of futility." — Seanax.com Posted Dec 5, 2009

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