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Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola's 'Lost in Translation'

Bill Murray is ‘Lost in Translation’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Comedy, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/08/2022 Sean Axmaker

Scarlett Johansson costars in Sofia Coppola’s exploration of delicate relationships and uncommunicated frustrations.

JZA, RZA, and Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch’s 'Coffee and Cigarettes'

‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies 12/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

Jim Jarmusch’s whimsical, 17-years-in-the-making anthology of curiosities plays like a collection of goofball asides to his feature films.

Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and Bill Murray star, Harold Ramis directs

‘Caddyshack’ – Slobs vs. snobs on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

Chevy Chase takes top billing as an eccentric Obi Wan Kenobi of the country club set in this comedy, costarring with Rodney Dangerfield, Michael O’Keefe, and a scene-stealing Bill Murray.

‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ on Disney+ and Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Animation, based on a novel, Blu-ray, caper, Comedy, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

Wes Anderson brings his distinctive sensibility to Roald Dahl fantasy and stop motion animation in this storybook kid’s movie for grown-ups.

Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman in Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom,' starring Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, and more

‘Moonrise Kingdom’ – Wes Anderson’s endless summer on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, childhood, Criterion, DVD, family friendly, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 10/25/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Wes Anderson’s tale of young love and teenage adventure is funny, playful, and full of nostalgic blasts and period trappings, but most of all it is loving.

Last chance: The United States of ‘Zombieland’ on Netflix

!Featured, adventure, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, horror, Last chance, Netflix, road movie, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

The zombie comedy was hardly fresh territory when Zombieland (2009) came along (and really, will anyone top Shaun of the Dead?) but it nonetheless does a fine job of mining the humor inherent in the end of the world. Jesse Eisenberg is the loner college geek who finds that his obsessive-compulsive instincts are just what […]

‘Get Low’ with Robert Duvall and Bill Murray on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/05/2021 Sean Axmaker

A lovely film about regret, self-punishment and redemption on a scale both human and mythic (or at least American folkloric), Get Low (2009) is a feature film with the personality of a short story, filled with quietly offbeat characters and directed with a deft balance of comedy and tragedy. Which is why it had a […]

Mowgli and friends in Disney's live-action 'The Jungle Book.'

‘The Jungle Book’ – 2016 remake on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, remake, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/25/2020 Sean Axmaker

The Jungle Book (2016), Jon Favreau’s live action (or at least photo-realistic) version of the Rudyard Kipling stories, offers far more than the bare necessities as it combines Kipling’s stories and Walt Disney’s 1967 animated musical adaptation for a marvelous new version of the classic story of a boy quite literally raised by wolves. The […]

Ethan Hawke stars in the Shakespeare adaptation from filmmaker Michael Almereyda

Ethan Hawke is ‘Hamlet’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, adapted from the stage, Amazon Prime Video, American Independent Cinema, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Shakespeare, stage adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/25/2018 Sean Axmaker

This is not your father’s Hamlet (2000). This melancholy Dane is son of the deceased Chairman of Denmark Corporation. His castle is a sleek but alienating New York high rise dotted with omnipresent surveillance cameras, his kingdom city streets lined with paparazzi and tabloid reporters. Ethan Hawke is the youngest actor to tackle the role […]

Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon in the 2016 'Ghostbusters'

Who ya gonna call? ‘Ghostbusters 2016’ on VOD

!Featured, Comedy, On Demand, VOD 10/11/2016 Sean Axmaker

Ghostbusters (2016), the reboot / remake / revival of the 1984 frat boy comedy starring Bill Murray as a sardonic con man in academia turned nuclear powered paranormal investigator, was the most controversial film of the year if you measure such things by Facebook rants and Twitter burns from arrested adolescents. Why? Because it stars […]