Amy Adams – Stream On Demand

Mark Wahlberg is ‘The Fighter’ on Netflix and Paramount+

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Christian Bale and Melissa Leo earned Oscars for their supporting turns in the true-life late-career comeback sports drama directed by David O. Russell.

Amy Adams is Margaret Keane in 'Big Eyes.' directed by Tim Burton

‘Big Eyes’ – The Keanes and the kitsch on Netflix

!Featured, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/04/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Tim Burton’s second foray into strange but true stories of American termite art culture delves into the story of Margaret Keane’s portraits of sad-eyed waifs that became a pop culture phenomenon.

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Catch Me If You Can’ on Paramount+

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FBI agent Tom Hanks chases check forger Leonardo DiCaprio in Spielberg’s lively take on the true story of a con man who successfully posed as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor, and passed millions in forged checks, all before his 21st birthday.

Joaquin Phoenix in the 2014 romantic drama from Spike Jonze

‘Her’ – Love in the digital world on Netflix

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Joaquin Phoenix stars as an emotionally wounded man who falls in love with his AI interface in this tender, meloncholy, and very moving drama from Spike Jonze.

‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ – Tom Hanks vs. the USSR on Hulu

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Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman costar in this breezy take on “the outrageous true story” of a minor congressman who secretly funded a rebellion against the Soviet Union.

‘The Muppets’ return on Disney+

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Jason Segal scripts and stars in the big screen return of the iconic puppet characters, a comedy that recaptures the whimsical charm and goofy humor of their best work.

Francis McDormand in ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’ on Amazon Prime

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The bouncy little screwball romance Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) is a fizzy cocktail of a movie set in depression-era London, where the beautiful people dance away in fabulous fashions and decadent distraction. Frances McDormand is the dowdy Guinevere Pettigrew, a buttoned-down yet free-thinking governess whose unorthodox ways have landed her on the […]

Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen in the NASCAR culture comedy directed by Adam McKay

Will Ferrell in ‘Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby’ on Netflix

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In the 2000s, Will Ferrell had an enviable run of hit comedies. To my mind, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) is the funniest of the batch. Set in the NASCAR culture, Ferrell plays a race car driver with two first names who outraces his own intellect in a comedy that features neither […]

Amy Adams in 'Arrival,' directed by Denis Villeneuve

‘Arrival’ – First contact on Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

Arrival (2016) is the most cerebral of first contact films, a science fiction drama about communicating across cultures and across species and even across time without a common language, while failing to communicate within our own world. It is a film that looks out beyond our galaxy and inward to our own souls, to challenge […]

Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill in Zach Snyder's 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'

‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ on HBO Max

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The smartest thing about Zach Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) is its revisionist take on the destruction that concluded his Superman reboot Man of Steel. After an unnecessary (but at least relatively brief) recap of the Batman story, we are plunged back into the battle but this perspective comes from the ground. […]