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Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in the Oscar-winning film by Tom Hooper

Oscar-winner ‘The King’s Speech’ on Max

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, historical, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

Colin Firth is the man who would be King George VI and Geoffrey Rush is the eccentric speech therapist who helps the royal overcome his stammer in this based-on-a-true-story drama that won Academy Awards, including best picture, best director Tom Hooper, and best actor Firth.

‘The Lego Movie’ – Everything is awesome on Max and Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Animation, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, childhood, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Hulu, Kid Stuff, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

This wild ride through the world of interlocking plastic bricks is clever, playful, and at times even profound. It’s also a hilarious film for kids and adults alike.

‘Hearts in Atlantis’ – Stephen King’s coming-of-age tale on Max

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Anthony Hopkins stars in this coming of age tale as a man on the run who befriends an adolescent boy and gives him a father figure in a troubled time.

Burt Lancaster applies ‘Brute Force’ on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Max, SVOD 11/09/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jules Dassin’s brooding, brutal drama is a classic film noir as well as one of the greatest prison films ever made.

Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell star in the 1948 film noir classic.

Nicholas Ray’s ‘They Live by Night’ on Max

!Featured, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, drama, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Max, SVOD 11/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

This is a film noir as a lyrical, intimate folk song about two young lovers raised in a culture of crime and poverty, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell.

Micheal Keaton is ‘Mr. Mom’ on Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/07/2023 Sean Axmaker

Teri Garr costars as the homemaker who returns to the workplace while her downsized husband takes over the household in this comedy written by John Hughes.

Sterling Hayden and Sam Jaffe star in the film noir from John Huston

‘The Asphalt Jungle’ – the original heist classic on Max

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John Huston essentially created the heist film with this classic tale of a crew that undertakes a meticulously planned out jewelry robbery.

‘La Ronde’ – love is a dance on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, based on a play, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, Max, Romance, SVOD, Venice winner 11/04/2023 Sean Axmaker

Max Ophuls directs this delicate, graceful romantic classic, a celebration of love and desire and passion and folly through the course of lovers as they change partners and continue the dance of romance.

Jennifer Lawrence stars in the Oscar nominated film by Debra Granik

Jennifer Lawrence arrives in ‘Winter’s Bone’ on Max and free on Kanopy

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John Hawkes costars in this award-winning coming-of-age survival drama set in the crime and poverty of the Ozark Mountains.

Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum star in the film noir classic directed by Jacques Tourneur'

Baby, I don’t care – ‘Out of the Past’ on Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Max, National Film Registry, SVOD 11/02/2023 Sean Axmaker

Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas star in Jacques Tourneur’s hard-boiled story of betrayal and revenge, a masterpiece with a haunting quality and one of the greatest film noirs of all time.