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‘The Wire: Complete Series’ on HBO Max

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, Articles, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, Crime, Cult TV, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, Streaming TV, SVOD 03/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

“Follow the drugs, and you’ll find dealers and users. Follow the money, and you have no idea where the case will take you.” This epic series set the high water mark for television drama.

Miguel Sandoval, Spike Lee, and Ossie Davis

Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, African-American cinema, African-American filmmakers, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, Peacock, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/16/2022 Sean Axmaker

Spike Lee’s vibrant, vital, thoroughly accomplished third feature is a provocative and intelligent exploration of race and racism that opens with a call to action and ends with a ferocious cry in the face of injustice.

Antony Starr and Ivana Milicevic star in the Cinemax series 'Banshee'

The Pure Pulp Pleasure of ‘Banshee’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, caper, Crime, Cult TV, DVD, gangsters, HBO Max, Streaming TV, SVOD, thriller 03/10/2021 Sean Axmaker

I like to think of Cinemax as the grindhouse version of HBO: not as exclusive, not as ambitious, not as high-toned (late night Cinemax wasn’t called “Skinemax” for nothing). And it’s the same when it comes to original programming, the cable TV mark of distinction. Where HBO boasts such impressive productions as The Wire and […]