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‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ – Apes unite on Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, DVD, Max, Science Fiction, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 10/27/2023 Sean Axmaker

Andy Serkis is Caesar, benevolent leader of a simian tribe after the collapse of human civilization, in the second film of the 21st century trilogy.

Steven Spielberg directs the big screen adventure adapted from the Herge graphic novels

Steven Spielberg directs ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ on Netflix and Paramount+ and free on Hoopla

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, Animation, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, Free, Hoopla, Kid Stuff, Netflix, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 10/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

Steven Spielberg’s first foray into motion capture filmmaking turns the legendary boy journalist and globe-trotting adventurer of the early graphic novels of Herge into a big screen hero.

‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ – a classic reinvented on Hulu and MGM+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, MGM+, prison film, remake, remake, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 10/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

Andy Serkis gives one of his greatest motion capture performances as the ape leader Caesar in this gripping remake / reimagining of the cult adventure film and its sequels.

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Prestige’ – Magicians at war at Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, fantasy, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 10/02/2023 Sean Axmaker

Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale star as rival magicians whose competition is driven to obsessive extremes and madness in this thriller set in 1890s London.

Peter Jackson’s ‘King Kong’ on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, giant monsters, Hulu, remake, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

The 2005 remake of the 1933 classic is an old-fashioned monster movie/jungle thriller pushed to the limits with new technology by a filmmaker with both the skill and the heart to recapture the thrills of his adolescent moviehouse dreams.

‘Flushed Away’ – Aardman Animation’s underground adventure on Peacock

!Featured, adventure, Animation, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Peacock, spies and espionage, SVOD 06/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, and Ian McKellen provide the voices in this spirited comedy of a pet mouse who becomes a hero in a subterranean London world.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, literary adaptation, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

The third and final film in the epic fantasy trilogy directed by Peter Jackson won 11 Academy Awards, including best picture of 2003.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, literary adaptation, Max, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

The second film in Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy is thrilling, enthralling, and dizzyingly exciting.

‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, DVD, Science Fiction, SVOD, thriller, war 04/21/2018 Sean Axmaker

Who would have predicted that the second revival of the Planet of the Apes series would be so smart, so moving, so… human? Whatever your feelings on the 1969 original, at the time a startlingly unique film built on a warped-mirror fantasy premise, the sequels were exercises in diminishing ambition and the ridiculous 2001 Tim […]