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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.

Critics' Group:
Location:

Seattle, WA

Official Website:

http://www.streamondemandathome.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Fringe: Season 4 (2011) 100% EDIT “Season Four sends the cast of the brainy weird science fiction show into a whole new alternate reality ...” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Fringe: Season 5 (2012) 88% EDIT “The final season is filled with just as many strange inventions and fringe science concepts as ever, but there’s less humor and, oddly enough, a more linear through-line ...” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Fringe: Season 3 (2010) 100% EDIT “... the closest show to inhabiting the "X-Files" zeitgeist of fringe science weirdness, offbeat humor and cosmic conspiracy, while still building the drama on a kind of pulp tragedy and the fatal flaws of its compromised heroes. ” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Fringe: Season 2 (2009) 82% EDIT “Season Two takes fringe science into another dimension, quite literally, and that dimension is fighting back.” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Fringe: Season 1 (2008) 85% EDIT “... a stylish journey into fringe science with "X-Files" trippiness but decidedly earthbound conspiratorial overtones.” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Hannibal: Season 3 (2015) 98% EDIT “It was utterly unique in the realm of network television, a melding of high art and pulp fiction, and played more like European art movie than American crime procedural.” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Hannibal: Season 2 (2014) 98% EDIT “If American crime TV tends toward either restrained realism of television journalism or the lurid excess of the tabloid press, "Hannibal" draws from Bosch and Blake and the ecstasy of death and martyrdom in religious artwork.” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1 (2017) 94% EDIT “This is a show that takes its time, not just to tell a story but to settle into the worlds of wonder and horror and the mysteries that defy rational explanation.” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Castle: Season 2 (2009) 100% EDIT “This is crime TV at its breeziest, a self-aware show with a lively team camaraderie and a sense of humor about itself. ” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Castle: Season 1 (2009) 70% EDIT “In a TV crime show culture of geek-speak procedurals filled with jargon and dubious science, this leans on personality and lighthearted character-based writing.” – Stream on Demand May 30, 2025 Full Review Escape at Dannemora: Season 1 (2018) 89% EDIT “It becomes more psychological drama than escape thriller and the story drags out in the middle episodes, but the excellent performances sustain the series until the energy picks up with the escape in the fifth episode ...” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: Season 5 (2014) 100% EDIT “Season Five eases us into 1924 as times are changing—a Labour government has been voted into power and class mobility and education are themes for the season—but change is slow.” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: Season 4 (2013) EDIT “Fellowes uses the turn of events to address such antiquated laws of inheritance in 20th century England, albeit with dignified restraint, just as the series gingerly addresses chauvinism, rape, and prejudice ...” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: Season 3 (2012) 83% EDIT “Season Three is a season of weddings and funerals, births and deaths, and an aristocracy stuck in the past dragged indignantly into the 20th century. ” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: Season 1 (2010) 86% EDIT “The series drops us into the Edwardian era of the 1910s to chronicle the last generation of this kind of class society, where the servants are as invested in the social culture of manners and conventions as the aristocrats they serve.” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Elementary: Season 7 (2019) 87% EDIT “A few recurring characters from previous seasons return for one last appearance and while no scripts are adapted directly from Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories, the climax plays off of “The Final Problem” ...” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Elementary: Season 6 (2018) 100% EDIT “The producers knew that the show was on bubble coming into Season Six and they developed it with the possibility that it could be the final season.” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Elementary: Season 4 (2015) 100% EDIT “... this season features an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles updated with modern technology, and a romantic relationship for Sherlock, a brilliant programmer (Betty Gilpin) on the autism spectrum that makes it difficult to interact socially.” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Elementary: Season 3 (2014) 100% EDIT “... Holmes faces his past and his addiction directly when a case in the final episodes brings back faces from his days as a heroin addict.” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Elementary: Season 2 (2013) 100% EDIT “Season Two brings more of the characters from the Holmes canon into the show, notably his estranged brother Mycroft (Rhys Ifans)... and former London police detective Lestrade (Sean Pertwee), here a rather pathetic fellow...” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Elementary: Season 1 (2012) 86% EDIT “This Holmes is slightly less abrasive than Cumberbatch’s (at least in the initial seasons) and no less brilliant, and he too plays the misanthrope to keep people at a distance ...” – Stream on Demand May 9, 2025 Full Review Bones: Season 11 (2015) 100% EDIT “... behind the technology geek-out, horror film viscera effects played for gross-out humor, and investigations through quirky social subcultures, Bones developed into the greatest love story on TV.” – Stream on Demand Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Bones: Season 3 (2007) 60% EDIT “When Dr. Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley) arrives in the third season as an FBI psychiatrist assigned to monitor their partnership with scheduled sessions, what could have been an awkward narrative device blossomed into a part of the screen family.” – Stream on Demand Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Bones: Season 2 (2006) 100% EDIT “The mix of high-concept forensic science and classic cop show partnership of opposites settled into its rhythm quickly, as much workplace dramedy as detective show, playful and affectionate and built on the chemistry of a core ensemble ...” – Stream on Demand Apr 30, 2025 Full Review Mutant X: Season 2 (2002) EDIT “Season 2 is an improvement.... The team gets a greater variety of adventures in addition to the usual rogue mutants, and more time to explore their own powers and relationships.” – Stream on Demand Apr 30, 2025 Full Review
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