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Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy take the ‘Red Eye’ on Prime Video, Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, MGM+, Paramount+, psychological drama, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 09/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

Horror movie legend Wes Craven proves to adept as crafting this surprisingly effective and highly entertaining thriller with a minimum of gimmickry.

Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Branagh star in Christopher Nolan's World War II drama

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ on Netflix and Max

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Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, and Cillian Murphy star in the epic World War II drama about the evacuation of Dunkirk.

‘Inception’ – Christopher Nolan’s mind-heist

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, caper, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/04/2023 Sean Axmaker

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this caper film that heists dreams instead of treasure. It is surely the most cerebral action thriller to become a blockbuster.

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ – the trilogy concludes on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, Max, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 03/05/2023 Sean Axmaker

It’s Christian Bale’s Batman vs. Tom Hardy’s Bane in the culmination of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of high-minded comic book superhero action spectacles

Christian Bale is Batman in Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins'

‘Batman Begins’ – Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight on HBO Max and Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Max, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, superheroes, SVOD 02/20/2023 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman mythos for the big screen in 2005, bringing the often lighthearted hero back to the shadows, both figuratively and literally.

‘Sunshine’ – Set the controls to the heart of the sun on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, horror, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Danny Boyle delivers a science fiction thriller with majestic imagery that adds grace and awe to a story built on rickety science.

Cillian Murphy in the zombie film by Danny Boyle

’28 Days Later’ – the zombie pandemic on Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, Hulu, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 07/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

28 Days Later (2003), Danny Boyle’s 21st century take on the zombie film, isn’t actually a zombie film, Boyle insists, and technically he’s correct. The springy, savage human monsters aren’t dead, merely infected with an experimental viral weapon called “rage,” which has turned them into mindless animals intent in tearing every living thing they see […]

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan star in 'Anthropoid,' directed by Sean Ellis.

‘Anthropoid’ – Killing Heydrich on Hulu and Kanopy

!Featured, Action, based on a true story, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, historical, Hulu, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 09/02/2019 Sean Axmaker

Anthropoid (2016) isn’t the first film to dramatize the real-life operation to assassinate SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Final Solution and Hitler’s third in command in the Nazi hierarchy. That honor belongs to Fritz Lang, who made the highly fictionalized and highly charged Hangmen Also Die in 1943, barely a year after the […]