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Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, and Jodie Foster star in Spike Lee's 'Inside Man.'

Clive Owen has an ‘Inside Man’ on Netflix

!Featured, Action, African-American filmmakers, Blu-ray, caper, DVD, heist, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

Spike Lee directs this smart, sharp, high concept heist thriller with Denzel Washington as the NYPD detective at a bank robbery turned hostage situations.

Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in John Huston's adaptation

Leaving soon: John Huston’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, historical, literary adaptation, Max, SVOD 03/18/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in Huston’s magnificent adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s story, a larger than life tale on a glorious canvas.

Leaving soon: David Fincher’s ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Mystery, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 12/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig star in the American screen adaptation of the Swedish bestseller, a darker, richer, more compelling film than the original Swedish version.

Denzel Washington is ‘Malcolm X’ on HBO Max and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, African-American filmmakers, Based on a nonfiction book, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, Max, National Film Registry, Paramount+, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/01/2022 Sean Axmaker

Spike Lee’s epic biographical drama of the controversial civil rights leader earned Washington his first Oscar nomination for best actor.

Christopher Plummer hosts 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,' a film by Terry Gilliam

Last chance: Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Hulu, movies about theater, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Christopher Plummer is the traveling showman as steampunk fantasist in this carny sideshow of a Faust tale, costarring Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell.

‘The Silent Partner’ – crooked Santa free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Christmas, Crime, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, thriller 12/07/2021 Sean Axmaker

Elliot Gould and Christopher Plummer star in this ingenious crime drama with a Christmas twist.

Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer are ‘Beginners’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, American Independent Cinema, BAFTA winner, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/16/2021 Sean Axmaker

The semi-autobiographical film from Mike Mills celebrates new beginnings when a 75-year-old widower comes out of the closet and inspires his son to follow his own heart.

‘Up’ – a wondrous animated odyssey on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, Animation, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, childhood, Disney+, DVD, Essential Viewing, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/02/2021 Sean Axmaker

The fantastical adventure from Pixar is a film of whimsy and wonder, mixing Jules Verne imagination with the bubble-gum colors of a children’s picture book and Pixar’s trademark bouncy humor, all stirred with memories of childhood dreams.

‘Starcrash’ – the most marvelously ridiculous ‘Star Wars’ knock-off on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Science Fiction, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 10/19/2020 Sean Axmaker

The shamelessly and fabulously derivative Italian space opera Starcrash (1979) is both the most ridiculous and the most irresistible of all the Star Wars knock-offs of the late seventies and eighties. Caroline Munro spends much of the film in a black latex bikini as the great outlaw starship pilot Stella Star, who is arrested by […]

Peter Sellers is Inspector Clouseau in six Pink Panther comedies directed by Blake Edwards

Blu-ray: ‘The Pink Panther Film Collection’ on Shout! Factory

Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Shout! Factory 07/03/2017 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

All six Pink Panther features directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau are featured in this six-disc Blu-ray collection, four of them making their respective Blu-ray debuts. Clouseau was but a supporting character in The Pink Panther (1963), a comic heist film with David Niven as the legendary jewel thief “the […]