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Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Larry Fishburne in 'The Matrix'

‘The Matrix’ trilogy – take the red pill on Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Max, National Film Registry, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

The original ‘The Matrix’ has become such a touchstone of American pop culture—referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)—that it’s hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, literary adaptation, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

The third and final film in the epic fantasy trilogy directed by Peter Jackson won 11 Academy Awards, including best picture of 2003.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, literary adaptation, Max, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

The second film in Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy is thrilling, enthralling, and dizzyingly exciting.

‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ on Disney+

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, superheroes, SVOD 10/12/2022 Sean Axmaker

Chris Evans plays the red, white and blue all-American hero in this origin story set during World War II, costarring Hayley Atwell and Tommy Lee Jones.

Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, and John Hurt star in the film adapted from the Alan Moore graphic novel

‘V For Vendetta’ – Fighting tyranny on Netflix

!Featured, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Netflix, Politics, Science Fiction, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

Alan Moore’s acclaimed graphic novel of political oppression and the fight for freeedom is brought to the screen with Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving.

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, and others star in the film by Lana and Lilly (formerly Andy) Wachowski and Tom Tykwer

‘Cloud Atlas’ – storytelling across centuries on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, literary adaptation, Max, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/16/2021 Sean Axmaker

Lana and Lilly Wachowski collaborate with Tom Tykwer on this sprawling film that jumps between six distinctive stories in six different eras.

Richard Roxburgh is Cleaver Greene in Rake.

‘Rake: Series 1’ on Netflix and AcornTV

!Featured, Acorn TV, DVD, Netflix, Streaming TV 03/15/2017 Sean Axmaker

Rake is a pretty fair description of Richard Roxburgh’s Cleaver Greene, an Australian criminal barrister who tends toward unconventional methods in the courtroom and self-destructive behavior outside the courts. He’s once divorced, with a string of failed relationships (one with a former hooker now dating the tax attorney prosecuting him) and affairs, and it’s left […]