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Denzel Washington is an ‘American Gangster’ on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Crime, drama, DVD, gangsters, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/25/202305/25/2023 Sean Axmaker

Denzel Washington plays real-life Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe plays the obsessive New York narcotics detective who pursued him through the 1970s.

‘Premium Rush’ – Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes to the streets on Hulu

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/25/202305/27/2023 Sean Axmaker

A corrupt cop chases a daredevil bike messenger through the streets of New York City for a mysterious package in this rush of an action picture.

‘Gate of Flesh’ – the mercenary world of Japan after World War II on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Crime, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, SVOD 05/25/202305/25/2023 Sean Axmaker

Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.

Leaving soon:’Trouble in Paradise’ – Stealing hearts and stealing jewels on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Comedy, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, pre-code, Romance 05/20/202305/20/2023 Sean Axmaker

Ernst Lubitsch brings continental elegance and American wit to a sexy love triangle with Miriam Hopkins, Herbert Marshall, and Kay Francis.

Cyril Raffaelli and Dany Verissimo in 'District B13,' aka 'Banlieue 13'

‘District B13’ – Stunning stunt action on Hulu and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Hulu, International Cinema, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/16/202305/16/2023 Sean Axmaker

Pierre Morel’s twist on ‘Escape From New York’ set in a near-future Paris is a lean, clean, B-movie action machine fueled by adrenaline and indignation.

Emily Blunt stars in 'Sicario,' a vivid, volatile thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve

‘Sicario’ – Emily Blunt takes on the drug war on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/13/202305/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

Denis Villeneuve directs this violent, chaotic, adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war written by Taylor Sheridan (who went on to create ‘Yellowstone’).

‘Tokyo Drifter’ – A lonely hitman on a wild odyssey on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, gangsters, International Classics, SVOD, thriller 05/08/202305/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

Weird, wild, and nearly incomprehensible, Seijun Suzuki’s gangster movie masterpiece recreates the Yakuza genre as a pop-art James Bond cartoon

Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx collide in ‘Collateral’ – free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/06/202305/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller is a smart, tense film pitting a coldly efficient assassin against the cabbie who inadvertently becomes his wheelman.

Leaving soon: ‘Bordertown: Complete Series’ – Nordic noir on Netflix

!Featured, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, Crime, International TV, Mystery, Netflix, Streaming TV, SVOD 04/29/202304/29/2023 Sean Axmaker

Ville Virtanen creates one of the most interesting TV detectives of all time in this murder mystery series from Finland.

Keanu Reeves is retired assassin John Wick roused back for a mission of vengeance in the 2014 action hit directed by Chad Stahelski

Leaving soon: Keanu Reeves is ‘John Wick’ on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/23/202304/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

This 2014 action movie hit revived a kind of thriller that Hollywood had ignored in the age of superhero movies: simple, streamlined, driven by action scenes that rely on physical prowess rather than computer generated elements. It also turned Keanu Reeves into an unexpectedly terrific action star.

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