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Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig are "20th Century Women."

’20th Century Women’ free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, biographical, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Kanopy, Last chance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/07/2022 Sean Axmaker

Annette Bening stars as a single mother who reaches out to a few friends to help giver her teenage son good life lessons in filmmaker Mike Mills’ tribute to his own mother.

J.J. Abrams channels Steven Spielberg for ‘Super 8’ on HBO Max

!Featured, adventure, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, giant monsters, HBO Max, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 10/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

A monster movie adventure powered by creative kids, a love of movies, and a foundation of mystery and wonder from school kids old enough to make their own zombie movie on super 8 film and young enough to get so excited by it.

‘My Neighbor Totoro’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, childhood, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, HBO Max, Kid Stuff, Summer movie, SVOD 12/30/2020 Sean Axmaker

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s living treasures, a beloved filmmaker whose animated films number among the most beautiful and most enchanting productions ever drawn by hand. In this day of CGI productions, the aging artist still personally draws his key frames and defining characters, with a love and craft that comes through every frame. […]

Elle Fanning stars in Nicholas Winding Refn's "The Neon Demon"

‘The Neon Demon’ on Amazon Prime and free on Hoopla

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Hoopla, horror, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/30/2020 Sean Axmaker

The Neon Demon (2016) – “I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t write… no real talent. But I’m pretty, and I can make money off pretty.” We first meet Jesse (Elle Fanning), a 16-year-old girl from Middle America looking to leverage her youth and innocent beauty into a modeling career in Los Angeles, made […]

Angelina Jolie is ‘Maleficent’ on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Halloween, horror, Kid Stuff, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/05/2020 Sean Axmaker

Maleficent (2014) does sort of a “Wicked” number on the story of Sleeping Beauty’s evil sorceress, casting her as the tragic figure of a dark fantasy (but not too dark for children—barely) of a revisionist fairy tale. Angelina Jolie plays the adult Maleficent, a fairy who watches over and defends the natural and supernatural wilds […]

Elle Fanning and Alice Englert star in 'Ginger and Rosa,' a touching coming of age drama set in the turbulent early 1960s and directed by Sally Potter

‘Ginger & Rosa’ on Showtime and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, historical, Hoopla, Kanopy, Showtime Anytime, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/04/2020 Sean Axmaker

Ginger & Rosa (2012) offers something we don’t usually see in the movies: a sensitive and nuanced portrait of two teenage girls, best friends since childhood, growing up and growing apart as they forge separate identities and diverging personalities and interests. It’s set in the volatile era of early 1960s London, before the Beatles but […]

What to stream: ’20th Century Women’ on Amazon Prime, plus ‘T2,’ ‘Gypsy,’ and more

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, drama, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Streaming Movies, SVOD, What to Stream 06/30/2017 Sean Axmaker

20th Century Women (2016) stars Annette Bening as Dorothea, a single mother of a teenage boy (Lucas Jade Zumann) determined to give him good life lessons with a little help from her friends. Elle Fanning is her son’s best friend, who escapes her troubled family and is warmly welcomed Dorothea, and Greta Gerwig and Billy […]