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Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis star in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel

Last chance: Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Age of Innocence’ on Criterion Channel

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Scorsese explores 19th century New York high society with grace, nuance, and piercing intellect in his adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, one of his greatest and most underrated films.

Daniel Day-Lewis is Hawkeye in 'The Last of the Mohicans' (1992), Michael Mann's muscular adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's American classic.

‘The Last of the Mohicans’ – Daniel Day-Lewis on the Frontier on Hulu and Paramount+

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Michael Mann directs arguably the greatest of the screen version of James Fenimore Cooper’s classic of American literature.

‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, British Cinema, drama, DVD, LGBTQ, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/13/2020 Sean Axmaker

Provocative and potent, My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) launched a lot of careers while shaking up British cinema in the eighties. Gordon Warnecke stars as Omar, the son of a Pakistani immigrant in London who takes over the management of a failing launderette in a seedy neighborhood owned by his entrepreneurial uncle (Saeed Jaffrey). Omar is […]

Steven Spielberg makes compelling drama from the statesmanship it took to pass the 13th Amendment to the American Constitution

Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘Lincoln’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

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Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) is a remarkable historical drama. Scripted by Tony Kushner, guided by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book A Team of Rivals, Lincoln casts a spotlight on one of the most important political actions in American history: passing the 13th Amendment to the American Constitution, which abolished slavery. In compelling detail, this film shows […]

Daniel Day-Lewis earned his second Best Actor Academy Award for his riveting performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's sinewy film

‘There Will be Blood’ on Amazon Prime Video and Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies 09/02/2018 Sean Axmaker

There Will be Blood (2007) – “I built my hate bit by bit.” Daniel Day-Lewis earned his second Best Actor Academy Award for his riveting performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s sinewy film. Loosely adapted from Sinclair Lewis’ novel “Oil!,” it reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as an elemental frontier myth, roughly hewn out of […]