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‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ – Matt Damon’s final run on Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Max, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

Damon plays the great anti-Bond of Hollywood action cinema for his third and final time as he seeks to reclaim the identity stolen from him by the CIA.

Daniel Day-Lewis is ‘Lincoln’ on Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, Based on a nonfiction book, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

Steven Spielberg directs this fascinating historical drama about how Lincoln passed the 13th Amendment to the American Constitution, which abolished slavery.

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

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, historical, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/13/2020 Sean Axmaker

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 […]

‘Good Night, and Good Luck.’ – Why journalism matters on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/23/2019 Sean Axmaker

David Strathairn plays broadcast journalism godfather Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005, PG), George Clooney’s austere, astounding drama about his career-threatening decision to use the airwaves to take on Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953. Directing in a stripped down style, Clooney’s direction captures the […]

Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman are 'Hemingway & Gellhorn' in the HBO original movie directed by Philip Kaufman.

‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Streaming Movies 05/26/2016 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

“I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else’s life,” states an aged but still sharp and tough Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) in Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012). Neither does this colorful biopic, an HBO original movie about their passionate and tumultuous relationship (both romantic and professional), directed by Philip Kaufman, a filmmaker fascinated […]