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Oscar Isaac in the Coen Bros. film 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ – Oscar Isaac breaks out on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, music, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Joel and Ethan Coen recreate the Greenwich Village scene and folk music culture of the early 1960s in this offbeat road movie featuring music crafted with the help of T-Bone Burnett.

‘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 […]

Krysten Ritter in the Netflix Original series based on the Marvel Comics character

What to stream: ‘Jessica Jones’ is back on Netflix with BBC’s ‘Collateral,’ ‘Thor: Ragnarkok’ on VOD

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Directed by Women, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Showtime Anytime, Streaming TV, superheroes, SVOD 03/09/2018 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Krysten Ritter as back as Marvel’s most dysfunctional superhero-turned-private investigator in the second season of the Netflix original series Jessica Jones and this time she’s taking on her own case: who […]

‘Bridge of Spies’ – Spielberg and Hanks in the Cold War

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/14/2017 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Mark Rylance won an Oscar playing Soviet spy Rudolph Abel in this drama of Cold War espionage and idealism based on a true story.

Gillian Anderson in the BBC miniseries 'Bleak House,' based on the novel by Charles Dickens

‘Bleak House’ with Gillian Anderson and Carey Mulligan on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, British TV, Streaming TV 04/06/2016 Sean Axmaker

Gillian Anderson is the icy and tormented Lady Dedlock in Bleak House (2005), the BBC mini-series adapted from the Charles Dickens novel. Anderson gets top billing, but her melancholy performance is just one beautiful turn in a rich ensemble. The epic tale of love, murder, scandal, and a legal fight over an inheritance that drags […]

Keira Knightley and family in 'Pride and Prejudice.'

What to watch: new movies and TV shows for the new year

!Featured, Netflix, Streaming Movies, What to Stream 01/01/2016 Sean Axmaker

Happy 2016. Here are a few of the recent arrivals on Netflix, Amazon, and the rest of the streaming and VOD services. Netflix Keira Knightley is the headstrong and feisty Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, class and social convention. Matthew Macfadyen is the starchy […]