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‘300’ – Zach Snyder adapts Frank Miller on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, historical, inspired by a true story, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 01/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Forget realism, this is Greek history as a macho fantasy that privileges brute force over intellect and turns war in an epic gladiator battle.

James Mason in ‘5 Fingers’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Classic, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, inspired by a true story, spies and espionage, suspense, SVOD 01/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz spins a true story from World War II into a smart, ironic drama of spies and espionage.

Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, and Ed Burns in Steven Spielberg's World War II platoon drama

‘Saving Private Ryan’ – Spielberg, Hanks, and WWII on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, inspired by a true story, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 01/04/2022 Sean Axmaker

Steven Spielberg delivers a classic platoon drama with a new mission in this Oscar-winning World War II epic set during the D-Day invasion.

Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Terminal’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, feel good movies, inspired by a true story, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

Hanks plays a traveler who winds up in the longest airport layover in the history of mankind in this gentle and inspiring drama inspired by a true story.

Jeremy Irons plays ‘Dead Ringers’ on Amazon Prime and Peacock

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David Cronenberg directs this mesmerizing psychological drama about identical twin brothers and gynecologists whose conjoined lives lead them to madness.

What to stream: ‘Dopesick’ on Hulu, ‘Guilty Party’ on Paramount+, ‘Halloween Kills’ on Peacock

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Plus ‘The Velvet Underground’ on Hulu, ‘The Trip’ on Netflix, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ series on Amazon, ‘Free Guy’ and ‘The Green Knight’ on VOD and more…

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Empire of the Sun’ – Innocence in wartime on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, childhood, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, inspired by a true story, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 09/29/2021 Sean Axmaker

Christian Bale made his film debut as British schoolboy in a Japanese prison camp in World War II Shanghai in this superb war drama.

‘School of Rock’ on Netflix and Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, feel good movies, inspired by a true story, music, Netflix, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/16/2021 Sean Axmaker

A manic Jack Black plays a narcissistic rock god wannabe who inspired a bunch of elementary school kids to rock out in the comedy directed by Richard Linklater.

'I'm Not There,' directed by Todd Haynes and starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, and Heath Ledger.

‘I’m Not There’ – the lives of Bob Dylan on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, biographical, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, inspired by a true story, Musical, Streaming Movies, SVOD, Venice winner 09/15/2021 Sean Axmaker

Todd Haynes draws from the songs, lives (real and imagined) and mysteries of Bob Dylan for his impressionistic survey of the artist, his art, his interaction (and at times collision) with the culture he both grabs onto and flees, and the mysteries that surround him.

Charlton Heston in the battle of ‘Khartoum’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Classic, DVD, inspired by a true story, SVOD, war 09/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

Laurence Olivier is unfortunately cast as an Arab (complete with heavy brownface makeup) in this sweeping epic of colonial war in 1880 Sudan.