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Mickey Rourke is ‘The Wrestler’ on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

Darren Aronofsky directs this warm but heartbreaking tale of a professional wrestler who is long past his prime trying to find a life after the ring.

‘Up’ – a wondrous animated odyssey on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, Animation, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, childhood, Disney+, DVD, Essential Viewing, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/02/2021 Sean Axmaker

The fantastical adventure from Pixar is a film of whimsy and wonder, mixing Jules Verne imagination with the bubble-gum colors of a children’s picture book and Pixar’s trademark bouncy humor, all stirred with memories of childhood dreams.

Richard Burton is ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, literary adaptation, spies and espionage, SVOD, thriller 08/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

Martin Ritt directs this superb film of John le Carré’s novel, the first of many adaptations of le Carré’s wary novels of Cold War espionage and still one of the best.

Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance as Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in the BBC miniseries 'Wolf Hall'

‘Wolf Hall’ – power and privilege on Hoopla

!Featured, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, British TV, DVD, Free, historical, Hoopla, literary adaptation, Streaming TV, SVOD 04/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

Mark Rylance stars in the advisor to King Henry VIII in this British miniseries adapted from the historical novels of Hilary Mantel.

Tatsuya Nakadai in the Akira Kurosawa epic

Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, DVD, Essential Viewing, historical, International Cinema, Shakespeare, SVOD, war 02/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

Akira Kurosawa Ran (Japan, 1985), the story of an aging warlord who hands power to his sons is loosely inspired by the story of sixteenth century warlord Mōri Motonari, who conquered his rivals and extended his kingdom with the help of his three sons. The script, however, is firmly built on King Lear, with sons […]

Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, and the group in 'The Lumberjack Song'

The Essential ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ on Netflix

!Featured, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, British TV, Comedy, Cult TV, DVD, Essential Viewing, Netflix, Streaming TV, SVOD 10/05/2019 Sean Axmaker

And now for something completely different. In 1969, five overeducated British comics and an American illustrator ambushed the BBC with the strangest show in British history. How they got on the air is anyone’s guess (rumors of blackmail were quickly hushed, though the Python’s penchant for sheep gags… but enough of speculation), but their irreverent […]

Robert Altman's 'Gosford Park,' screenwriter Julian Fellowes's first foray into the culture that would become 'Downton Abbey'

‘Gosford Park’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Have You Seen...?, Mystery, SVOD 07/29/2019 Sean Axmaker

In Gosford Park (2002), Robert Altman brings his gift for big, sprawling dramas knit with a fine weave of characters and a massive cast up to the task of filling them up with lives to the Merchant Ivory idiom of the manners and manors of Britain’s upper crust of yesteryear, 1932 to be specific. The […]

Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in the Oscar-winning film by Anthony Minghella

‘The English Patient’ – Love in wartime on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, literary adaptation, Netflix, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 11/22/2018 Sean Axmaker

The African desert, WWII, and romance… no doubt about it, The English Patient (1996) is a Casablanca for the 90s, directed with sweep, elegance, and grand passions by Anthony Minghella from his screenplay adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s novel. Ralph Fiennes, scarred by fire and buried under bandages like an Egyptian mummy, is the mysterious patient […]