2001 – Page 2 – Stream On Demand

David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Dr.’ on MUBI

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Lynch transformed the pilot of a TV show into a neo-noir with a weird, mystical logic that, in its unique Lynchian way, makes a twisted emotional sense.

‘Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Animation, childhood, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, HBO Max, Kid Stuff, Science Fiction, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

This candy-colored comic adventure of an Einstein in short pants is a science fiction factasy with a gee-whiz kick and a childhood innocence.

Tim Burton visits the ‘Planet of the Apes’ on Prime Video

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Mark Wahlberg stars as the American astronaut who lands on a planet where apes rule and humans drool and Helena Bonham Carter is the simian who supports human rights.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, and Frank in Richard Kelly's cult movie of teen confusion

‘Donnie Darko’ – Life’s a mystery on HBO Max

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Richard Kelly’s visually imaginative and intellectually challenging debut film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an otherwise confused teenager in a world of mystery and imagination.

‘O’ – high school Othello on Paramount+

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Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, and Josh Hartnett star in Tim Blake Nelson’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ in an elite private high school.

‘Apocalypse Now: Redux’ – Francis Ford Coppola’s trippy war epic on Netflix

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Coppola turns Vietnam into a war movie as drug-addled theme park ride with real tigers, exploding sets, and Marlon Brando as a mad guru warrior.

‘In the Bedroom’ on Paramount+

Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, drama, Have You Seen...?, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, suspense 05/18/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

In the Bedroom (2001), a hushed portrait of love, loss, and vengeance in a sleepy New England backwater, is a harrowing drama starring Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson as parents who stop communicating after the violent death of their only son. The directing debut of actor Todd Field (he played the pianist in Stanley Kubrick’s […]

The original 2001 comedy from David Wain and Michael Showalter.

The original ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Wet Hot American Summer (2001) has lived longer than anyone would have predicted while watching it in 2001. The self-aware summer camp spoof/nostalgia lampoon spawned a prequel and a sequel series for Netflix that play out in the same cheeky, silly, self-aware manner of adult actors playing at being teenagers. It feels as much an […]

‘Millennium Actress’ – Satoshi Kon’s celebration of cinema free on Hoopla

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Animation, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, film history, Have You Seen...?, historical, International Cinema, movies about movies, SVOD 03/17/2021 Sean Axmaker

As loving and perceptive a tribute to the power and legacy of movies as I’ve ever seen, Satoshi Kon’s animated drama Millennium Actress (Japan, 2001) deftly weaves history and film and memory into an imaginative meditation on way the movies become a part of our lives. It’s Not exactly the first thing you’d expect from […]

‘All About Lily Chou-Chou’ – Not your usual high school drama on Kanopy

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Shunji Iwai’s cruel story of youth All About Lily Chou-Chou (Japan, 2001) has very little to do with pop star Lily Chou-Chou (a Bjork-like fictional creation who took on a cult life in Japan as the star of an interactive Internet novel) and everything to do with her adolescent fans in a Japanese junior high […]