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‘Flushed Away’ – Aardman Animation’s underground adventure on Peacock

!Featured, adventure, Animation, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Peacock, spies and espionage, SVOD 06/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, and Ian McKellen provide the voices in this spirited comedy of a pet mouse who becomes a hero in a subterranean London world.

‘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.

Peter Jackson directs the first film in J.R.R. Tolkein's trilogy

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, literary adaptation, Max, National Film Registry, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

New Zealand genre film maverick Peter Jackson directs this faithful, magical, thrilling, and—most importantly—compelling film version of J.R.R. Tolkein’s great cult fantasy epic.

‘X-Men’ – the first cinematic superhero team on Disney+ and Hulu

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Hulu, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 10/04/2022 Sean Axmaker

Hugh Jackman first played Wolverine in this hit big screen version of the mutant superhero comic book, one of the films that paved the way for the cinematic MCU.

Ian McKellen is plays cult director James Whale in Bill Condon's Oscar-winning 'Gods and Monsters.'

‘Gods and Monsters’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Academy Award, American Independent Cinema, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, historical, movies about movies, SVOD 05/30/2020 Sean Axmaker

Gods and Monsters (1998), Bill Condon’s first collaboration with Ian McKellen (the star of his Sherlock Holmes-in-retirement drama Mr. Holmes), is also a speculation on the final days of an aging artist whose failing memory haunts him. This one happens to be a real-life figure: James Whale, the debonair, openly gay British director who came […]

Ian McKellen stars as 'Mr. Holmes' in the film directed by Bill Condon.

Ian McKellan is ‘Mr. Holmes’ – free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Hoopla, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/13/2020 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Behind a beak of a nose and a face dotted with liver spots, Ian McKellen doesn’t just look old in Mr. Holmes (2015). His 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes quavers with tremors, his face droops like melted wax, and at times the glint in his eyes glazes over like he’s momentarily checked out, dull and absent. As he […]