Billy Crudup – Stream On Demand

Patrick Fugit and Kate Hudson star in Cameron Crowe's autobiographical 'Almost Famous.'

‘Almost Famous’ – living the rock dream on Paramount+

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Cameron Crowe’s thinly fictionalized autobiography tells the story of a high rock journalist on the road for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s.

‘Watchmen’ – Superhero redux on Max and Prime Video

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Zach Snyder’s 2009 adaptation of the landmark graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons is as faithful as anyone could hope for.

‘Public Enemies’ – John Dillinger vs. the FBI on Netflix

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Johnny Depp is John Dillinger and Christian Bale is agent Melvin Purvis in Michael Mann’s take on the gangster glory days of the depression.

Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig are "20th Century Women."

‘20th Century Women’ on Max and free on Kanopy

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Annette Bening stars as a single mother who reaches out to a few friends to help giver her teenage son good life lessons in filmmaker Mike Mills’ tribute to his own mother.

‘Princess Mononoke’ – Miyazaki’s mythic masterpiece on HBO Max

!Featured, adventure, Animation, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, Have You Seen...?, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/14/2022 Sean Axmaker

This magnificent fantasy of the battle between the forest spirits and the industrial revolution is an environmentalist epic as blood and thunder adventure on an apocalyptic scale.

‘Alien: Covenant’ – the prequel continues

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, horror, Science Fiction, SVOD, thriller 03/05/2018 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

You may recall Prometheus with both awe and astonishment, a film with astounding moments of beauty and horror and brilliance bumping up against stupidity and sloppiness and half-baked ideas. Alien: Covenant (2017), the second film in the Alien prequel series, takes place a decade after the events of Prometheus (2012) and continues writing the xenomorph […]

Natalie Portman stars in 'Jackie,' directed by Pablo Larraín

Natalie Portman is ‘Jackie’ on HBO Now

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a true story, Blu-ray, DVD, On Demand 08/26/2017 Sean Axmaker

Jackie (2016) – Natalie Portman earned an Oscar nomination playing American First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the week following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This is not the conspiracy drama of Oliver Stone’s JFK, nor is it a sentimental spectacle of a country mourning the death of an inspirational President. This is an […]

What to stream: ’20th Century Women’ on Amazon Prime, plus ‘T2,’ ‘Gypsy,’ and more

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, drama, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Streaming Movies, SVOD, What to Stream 06/30/2017 Sean Axmaker

20th Century Women (2016) stars Annette Bening as Dorothea, a single mother of a teenage boy (Lucas Jade Zumann) determined to give him good life lessons with a little help from her friends. Elle Fanning is her son’s best friend, who escapes her troubled family and is warmly welcomed Dorothea, and Greta Gerwig and Billy […]