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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: 1699
Total QuickRatings: 2

Location: Seattle, Washington

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Rotten	Rotten 38%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" For all the shadows and nocturnal imagery there is no darkness to the story, no fear of loss of life or soul..." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 22, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Flashpoint: The First Season (2009)	" The show never really gets any traction with the familiar team characters and unsurprising dynamics, but it's a satisfying procedural..." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Left Bank (2009)	" It has an uneasiness that recalls Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant but with a decidedly pagan bent..." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 92%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" This rollercoaster horror film is like an EC horror comic of the 1950s come to life, an unforgiving morality tale with playfully gruesome twists and a doozy of a gallows humor." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Eagles Over London (1969)	" *Made in the shadow of The Dirty Dozen* and The Battle of Britain, this film straddles both genres...*" — Seanax.com* Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 38%	Mr. Sardonicus (1961)	" ... the make-up is inspired and Oskar Homolka steals the show as the long suffering, whipped-into-submission servant Krull." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Homicidal (1961)	" This devious little gem is an inspired twist on its inspiration..." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2008)	" It's a portrait in contradiction, a man who finds success in gimmicks but so wants to be taken seriously." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Vega$: The First Season, Vol. 1 (2009)	" It's dated, sure, but there's a certain seventies attitude that makes this a lot of fun." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Planet Earth (1974)	" *The script, social commentary, idealism and minimalist futurism design comes right out of Star Trek..." — Seanax.com* Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Fawlty Towers - Series Three (1974)	" [John] Cleese puts his contortionist comic ability to fine use, punctuating Basil's outrageous faux pas with absurd gymnastics and slapstick ballets..." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	N/A	It's Garry Shandling's Show: The Complete Series (2009)	" ... not so much a spoof of sitcom conventions as a sitcom that invites the audience into the fabric of the genre: the star literally taking audiences into his home as his guest." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 62%	Billy Jack (1971)	" [W]hen peaceful protest is met with guns and brutality, Billy kicks ass as a one-man-army of poetic justice." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 19, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 20%	Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)	" ... a bizarre mix of sensibilities that falls apart into a mess of cultural cues. The result is as tone deaf as the confused accents." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 80%	Black Rain (1989)	" Even in a seeming Eden of the lush picture-postcard country village in this film, the legacy of the bomb lives on." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 54%	Cheri (2009)	" (T)he chemistry of these performers makes it not just believable but almost inevitable: emotionally guarded beauties who inadvertently allow affection into their relationship." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 70%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" It's as honest a tale of being a child as you'll find on screen..." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 15, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	A Serious Man (2009)	" ... as funny, heartbreaking, questioning, trying, exasperating and sincerely inquisitive a portrait of the human condition as you'll find on screen." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Whip It (2009)	" [Drew] Barrymore... embraces the self-expression of this riot grrrl-style roller derby tale and fills the film with team spirit and high energy." — Seanax.com Posted Oct 1, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Life On Mars ()	" It gets tiresome and the cast too often seems to be parodying rather than incarnating the seventies." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Foyle's War - Set 4 (2007)	" These shows are an intelligent and thoughtful look at a period not often plumbed for drama and stir historical events into the fictional stories..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Foyle's War - Set 5 (2008)	" These shows are an intelligent and thoughtful look at a period not often plumbed for drama and stir historical events into the fictional stories..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Foyle's War - Set 2 (2003)	" These shows are an intelligent and thoughtful look at a period not often plumbed for drama and stir historical events into the fictional stories..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Foyle's War - Set 1 (2002)	" These shows are an intelligent and thoughtful look at a period not often plumbed for drama and stir historical events into the fictional stories..." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Attraction (2009)	" There really isn't a story here, merely a succession of surreal erotic daydreams and music-video digressions..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Hills Run Red (2009)	" ... the rare self-aware horror by an unabashed fan of the genre that works on its own terms." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 26%	Shrink (2009)	" It's another Los Angeles movie that is alternately self-congratulatory and self-pitying..." — MSN.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Rotten	Fresh 66%	Away We Go (2009)	" It's hard to warm to a film so determined to ridicule, even when it steadies out in the final act as they find more centered and emotionally generous folks..." — MSN.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	" This trip down the yellow brick road is a sight to behold: The ruby slippers glimmer, the green of the wicked witch glows..." — Seanax.com DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 45%	Management (2009)	" Forget logic here, there's a good cast, nice chemistry and warm feelings all around as they all fumble around for something to bring meaning to their lives." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 68%	Fermat's Room (2008)	" ... a cerebral thriller with a different kind of locked-room mystery." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Reckless Moment (1949)	" It certainly makes for the purest and most impossible love of [Max] Ophuls' films, and for me, the most emotionally compelling." — Parallax View Posted Sep 28, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 50%	Observe and Report (2009)	" Jody Hill's twisted comedy dances with dark material and mines laughs from behavior that would be disturbing in other circumstances..." — MSN.com DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 21, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Monterey Pop (1967)	" ... a concert film as a cinema vérité documentary, a little shaggy, a little low-fi, up close and intimate and very much in tune with the audience basking in the joy of the music..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 21, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Wagon Master (1950)	" It's as gentle and warm a film as [John Ford] ever made and it follows a classic Ford theme: the creation of a community in the west..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 21, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 36%	Adam Resurrected (2008)	" Director Paul Schrader is too removed from the powerful emotions roiling through the film, but it may be the only way to handle the horrors he's forced to confront." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 21, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 97%	Tulpan (2008)	" While it is no documentary, this lovingly made film captures a culture and a rural way of life with a mix of realism and poetry." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 21, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 31%	Deadgirl (2008)	" ... more pose than convincing psychological portrait, leaving little more than a well executed horror film with a very different kind of sexual danger." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 86%	Treeless Mountain (2009)	" ..the film is tender, touching and charming, a portrait of quiet resilience and sisterly devotion..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 60%	Nightwatching (2007)	" ... the entire film is designed to look like a Rembrandt canvas, right down to the careful composition of the players within the frame." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 20, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	The Informant! (2009)	" Matt Damon is a constant churn of gee-whiz earnestness, righteous indignation, nervous exasperation and self-aggrandizing swagger..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 17, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ()	" ... as gentle and colorful a mystery series as you will ever find." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 13, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (2008)	" ... as gentle and colorful a mystery series as you will ever find." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 13, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 56%	9 (2009)	" The delight is in the detail. The character designs are marvelous and the surface details playful and inventive..." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 10, 2009
Rotten	N/A	Lie to Me - Season 1 (2009)	" ... the latest incarnation of the forensic formula... that focus on specialized talents which, inevitably, turn out to be the ONLY tool that can possibly solve the case at hand." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 7, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Fringe: The First Season (2009)	" This is a show where freaky things happen on a weekly basis (Astral projection! Teleportation! Interdimensional travel! Humans transformed into hideous mutant creatures!)" — Seanax.com Posted Sep 7, 2009
Fresh	Rotten 57%	Mad Monster Party (1967)	" ... the mix of innocence, stop-motion slapstick, off-beat spoofing, and just plain goofiness is a lot of fun, and sometimes the sheer absurdity of it all can sneak up on you." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 7, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	That Hamilton Woman (1941)	" ... the most gracefully directed and dramatically engaging film from British film impresario Korda, who generally directed like a producer." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 7, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 6%	All About Steve (2009)	" *There's not much to All About Steve* but it's a part Bullock does well: the tomboy, the goofball, the cute but weird ugly duckling...*" — Seanax.com* Posted Sep 3, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 62%	Billy Jack (1971)	" ... when peaceful protest is met with guns and brutality, Billy kicks ass as a one-man-army of poetic justice." — Seanax.com Posted Sep 2, 2009

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