About Me
Photo credit: Sara Diamond
Photo credit: James Dailing, 2007
Hello, my name is Sean Axmaker.
I was born in Oregon and have lived almost all of my life in the Pacific Northwest (with a brief sojourn in Hawaii, which is “west” and “Pacific” but certainly not “north”). Armed with a Master’s degree in Telecommunications and Film Studies that I earned from the University of Oregon, I spent the subsequent dozen years after graduation managing video stores (specifically the once mighty but now defunct Flicks and Pics in Eugene, Oregon, and the nationally revered Scarecrow Video in Seattle, Washington) while writing film reviews and articles in my spare time. I’ve been writing full time since 1998.
I’m a film critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a DVD columnist for MSN Entertainment, and a contributing writer to GreenCine.com and Turner Classic Movies Online. I’ve written for The Seattle Weekly, Senses of Cinema, Asian Cult Cinema, and Psychotronic Video, among other publications, and I was the DVD columnist for the Internet Movie Database from 2001 to 2007.
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I currently live and work in Seattle, Washington, with my two cats, Toby (the cultured white and gray one) and Ruby (the excitable and skittish black one).
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By Cynthia Abbott, November 25, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
Hi Sean
Thanks for the link to your website….Wishing you success with it and I will check in to see as new things are added.
Fdbk: Your site is easy to: move around, find stuff and loads up very easily….
Hope all is well in your life…
Bye for now,
Cynthia
By Jesse Henderson, December 6, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
Sean,
In the spinning swirl of information–I always appreciate the particular character of your thoughts and honesty–thanks for being an inspiration to all of us who labor to birth our passions and creative endeavors–words and otherwise! Kudos to you and Nick (Henderson Graphics) on the site design–those hours in the basement really did pay off. Cheers.
Jesse
By Nick McLean, December 21, 2007 @ 3:06 am
Hey Sean,
Nice to see a Parr Towerian doing well. Read your reviews all the time, agree with you almost always. It’s quite a ways since reading you in the Emerald.
I’m a camera assistant and the writer’s strike is killing me. I work mostly in TV and its pretty much dried up. Counting on February that this thing ends…
Anyway, congrats, great website, etc…
Nick
By Stefania, January 3, 2008 @ 7:54 am
Ciao Sean,
thank you for your mail about the best of 2007. Your website is very interesting, well made and full of information.
Naturally I appreciate your interesting to the silent movies and I wait for you in Pordenone next October.
I wish for a very nice and special person like you a wonderful 2008!!!
kisses
Stefania
By Thom Chambliss, January 3, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
Dear Sean,
THERE you are!! Cool. Very cool. Great photo–you’re aging nicely.
This just arrived from Charley Boyd: http://glumbert.com/media/womenfilm
Pretty wonderful what you can do now at home with morphing technology.
I’m hoping to talk to you soon and find out more about what’s going.
Thom
By Leonard Hermens, November 26, 2008 @ 12:40 pm
Eastern Oregon says “HI!”