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Mel Gibson in George Miller's original 1979 'Mad Max'

The original ‘Mad Max’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Kanopy, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/11/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

George Miller’s grungy 1979 Australian revenge flick launched Mel Gibson internationally and started a post-apocalyptic action franchise

Essie Kent and Noah Wiseman in Jennifer Kent's horror film.

‘The Babadook’ – old school scares in the modern world on AMC+ and free on Kanopy

!Featured, AMC+, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, DVD, Free, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/14/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

This Australian horror fantasy is one of the best and most original horror films in years, raising goosebumps with old-fashioned scares, relatable characters, and a provocative psychological foundation.

‘Not Quite Hollywood’ – The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Cult Movies, Documentary, DVD, film history, Have You Seen...?, movies about movies, SVOD 08/12/2021 Sean Axmaker

Mark Hartley’s survey of Australian exploitation cinema is one of the most entertaining and affectionate documentaries about cinema that you’ll ever see.

Donald Pleasance and Gary Bond in the 1971 Australian drama by Ted Kotcheff

Australian cult film ‘Wake in Fright’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, satire, SVOD, thriller 08/14/2018 Sean Axmaker

Wake in Fright (1971), one of the seminal works of the New Australian cinema of the seventies, is a brutal, blackly funny thriller of an urban schoolteacher (Gary Bond) posted to the Australian Outback, which is a sun-blasted nightmare as far as he’s concerned. He can’t leave fast enough when his Christmas vacation arrives, but […]

Yael Stone and Noah Taylor in the Australian crime drama 'Deep Water'

‘Deep Water’ – Australian crime on Prime Video and Acorn TV

!Featured, Acorn TV, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, British TV, DVD, Free, Hoopla, Mystery, Streaming TV, SVOD 07/09/2018 Sean Axmaker

Noah Taylor and Yael Stone star in the 2016 Australian crime drama miniseries inspired by real-life events.

Ethan Hawks stars in the adaptation of Robert Heinlein's All You Zombies from the Spierig Brothers

‘Predestination’ – Ethan Hawke in a time travel twister on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, time travel 10/09/2017 Sean Axmaker

Predestination (2015) is a generic title for a perversely clever time travel tale but you can understand why The Spierig Brothers, the screen credit for filmmaking team Michael and Peter Spierig, didn’t go with the title of the famous Robert Heinlein short story they adapted. “—All You Zombies—” would give audiences the wrong idea. There […]

Richard Roxburgh is Cleaver Greene in Rake.

‘Rake: Series 1’ on Netflix and AcornTV

!Featured, Acorn TV, DVD, Netflix, Streaming TV 03/15/2017 Sean Axmaker

Rake is a pretty fair description of Richard Roxburgh’s Cleaver Greene, an Australian criminal barrister who tends toward unconventional methods in the courtroom and self-destructive behavior outside the courts. He’s once divorced, with a string of failed relationships (one with a former hooker now dating the tax attorney prosecuting him) and affairs, and it’s left […]