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‘Spy Kids’ – pint-sized secret agents on Parmount+

!Featured, Action, adventure, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, childhood, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Paramount+, spies and espionage, SVOD 12/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Robert Rodriguez brings a sense of whimsy to his family adventure of battling siblings (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) who discover their parents are retired international spies.

‘Spy Kids 3: Game Over’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Paramount+, Science Fiction, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

The third film in the junior James Bond series takes a turn into private eye fantasy and then a dazzling (and often absurdly silly) trip into a virtual reality video game.

‘Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, childhood, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, giant monsters, Halloween, Kid Stuff, Paramount+, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

The second film in Robert Rodriguez’s junior James Bond fantasies takes them to a sweet mad scientist creating preposterous dream-creatures hatched with a childlike love of puns.

‘Haywire’ – bad-ass action on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/10/2021 Sean Axmaker

Haywire (2011) is Steven Soderbergh’s drive-in assassin action movie by way of a sleek art-house conspiracy thriller. According to the director, the film sprung from his desire to develop a film around the talents and skill of mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano, and the finished film — which casts Carano as a covert agent […]

What to stream: ‘Honeyland’ and ‘Justified’ on Hulu, ‘Picard’ on CBS All Access, ‘What Did Jack Do?” on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Cannes winner, Criterion Channel, Documentary, Hulu, Netflix, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD, What to Stream 01/24/2020 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … The weekly column is featured in The Seattle Times, The Spokesman-Review, and other newspapers. The beautifully-photographed documentary “Honeyland” (Macedonia, 2019, not rated, with subtitles) brings us into the life of a solitary beekeeper in […]