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Leaving soon: ‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’ – the definitive version of a visionary film on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hulu, National Film Registry, Science Fiction, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott’s visionary reworking of Philip K. Dick’s novel may have flopped when it was released but it has become a science fiction touchstone and has colonized the imaginations of writers, directors, and die-hard fans of science fiction.

Kurt Russell stars in the cult film from John Carpenter

The original ‘Escape from New York’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

John Carpenter transformed Kurt Russell into an action hero with this clever sci-fi thriller where Manhattan has been turned into a high security island prison.

The ‘Indiana Jones’ quartet on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Action, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 01/19/2023 Sean Axmaker

Harrison Ford steps into the battered fedora and leather jacket of the globetrotting archeologist adventurer in the rip-roaring tribute to the cliffhanger adventures of yesteryear from producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg.

The original ‘The Muppet Show’ on Disney+

!Featured, Comedy, Cult TV, Disney+, DVD, Emmy Award, family friendly, Kid Stuff, music, Streaming TV 11/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Kermit the Frog hosts the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational variety show to ever hit prime time. Decades later, it’s still funny, fast-paced, utterly madcap, and tremendous fun.

Starring Albert Finney, directed by Michael Wadleigh , from the novel by Whitley Strieber

‘Wolfen’ – Urban pack hunters on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, Halloween, horror, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 10/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Albert Finney follows a trail of murders in New York City to an underground culture of wolves in this twist on the werewolf thriller.

David Naughton stars in John Landis's 'An American Werewolf in London'

‘An American Werewolf in London’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

John Landis directs this mix of black comedy and bloody carnage that confirms our suspicions: the dead are boring.

John Travolta in Brian De Palma's 'Blow Out'

Brian De Palma’s ‘Blow Out’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, movies about movies, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

John Travolta delivers his best performance as a movie sound technician who inadvertently records a murder in this beautifully directed conspiracy thriller.

‘Time Bandits’ – Terry Gilliam’s fractured fairy tale on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, British Cinema, caper, Comedy, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, HBO Max, historical, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Gilliam’s fantastical second feature is a a strange and weird and wonderful mix of boy’s own adventure, Python-esque humor, and grim irony, all wrapped in tall tales, ancient myths, and historical figures.

Last chance: The original ‘The Evil Dead’ on HBO Max

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, HBO Max, horror, supernatural, SVOD 04/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

The debut film from Sam Raimi is a bravura bit of cinematic inventiveness and one of the most entertaining American horror films of its time.

Nigel Terry is King Arthur and Cherie Lunghi his Guinevere in John Boorman's 'Excalibur.'

‘Excalibur’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, historical, SVOD 01/26/2019 Sean Axmaker

The myth and legend of King Arthur has long been a favorite fascination of popular culture, the source of countless novels and movies and the inspiration for an iconic Broadway musical that became the nickname for John F. Kennedy’s too-short inspirational time as American President: “Camelot.” Forget the real-life history, the very mention of King […]