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Leaving soon: Tom Hanks is ‘Larry Crowne’ on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

Hanks also cowrites and directs this amiable, unambitious story of a downsized worker who goes back to college for a new start.

Leaving soon: ‘Contagion’ – Steven Soderbergh predicts the global pandemic on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Max, Politics, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 02/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, and Marion Cotillard star in Soderbergh’s prescient thriller about the social and political response to a global pandemic, made a decade before Covid.

Last chance: ‘Argo’ – a stranger than fiction rescue tale on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, based on a true story, Blu-ray, caper, drama, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 09/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ben Affleck directs and stars in this based-on-a-true-story drama of the rescue of American hostages in Iran that won the Oscar for best picture.

‘Godzilla’ – the American revival on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, giant monsters, Max, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Gareth Edwards draws from the original Japanese features for his big budget American revival, embracing the majesty and dignity of the monster as a ferocious force of nature.

‘Batman: Year One’ – the Dark Knight begins on HBO Max

!Featured, Animation, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Max, superheroes, SVOD 03/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Frank Miller’s miniseries retrelling of the early days of Batman gets the animated treatment in this direct-to-video adaptation.

‘Seinfeld’ – Much ado about nothing on Netflix

!Featured, Comedy, DVD, Emmy Award, Netflix, satire, Streaming TV, SVOD 10/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

The legendary sitcom about nothing became a pop culture phenomenon, the top rated show on TV, an Emmy winner, and yada yada yada.

‘Drive’ – Ryan Gosling’s getaway on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Peacock, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD 08/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Sleek pulp crime cool meets arthouse style thriller in Drive (2011, R) starring Ryan Gosling as a taciturn getaway driver. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (a veteran of gritty, brutal Danish underworld dramas) with a silky smoothness and a stylized cool that recalls Le Samourai and Walter Hill’s The Driver, and an eighties vibe and […]

‘From the Earth to the Moon’ on HBO Now

!Featured, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Emmy Award, historical, miniseries, SVOD 07/18/2019 Sean Axmaker

The history of the American space race is presented in terms both reverential and mortal in From the Earth to the Moon(1998), the sweeping Tom Hanks produced mini-series made for HBO. The debut episode “Can We Do This?,” directed by Hanks, is a quick survey of the birth of the space program from behind the […]

Margo Martindale and Giovanni Ribisi in Sneak Pete on Amazon

‘Sneaky Pete’ and ‘Casanova’ – Amazon pilots streaming free

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Free, Watch This! 08/10/2015 Sean Axmaker

Amazon Pilot Season again, though this one is limited to just two hopefuls: Sneaky Pete, created by David Shore (House, M.D.), and Casanova, the first small-screen series from filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie). Sneaky Pete stars Giovanni Ribisi as a con man and an ex-convict who ducks a debt by appropriating the identity of his old […]