Jada Pinkett Smith – Stream On Demand

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.

Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx collide in ‘Collateral’ – free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller is a smart, tense film pitting a coldly efficient assassin against the cabbie who inadvertently becomes his wheelman.

‘Madagascar’ – back to the wild on Peacock

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Peacock, SVOD 12/12/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ben Stiller and Chris Rock headline the voice cast of this animated comic odyssey of four New York City zoo animals shipped back to the wilds of Africa, where they have idea how to survive.

‘Princess Mononoke’ – Miyazaki’s mythic masterpiece on HBO Max

!Featured, adventure, Animation, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, Have You Seen...?, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/14/2022 Sean Axmaker

This magnificent fantasy of the battle between the forest spirits and the industrial revolution is an environmentalist epic as blood and thunder adventure on an apocalyptic scale.

Ben McKenzie as Lt. Jim Gordon and the cast of 'Gotham'

‘Gotham: Season 1’ on Netflix

!Featured, Cult TV, Netflix, Streaming TV 09/24/2015 Sean Axmaker

Gotham: Season 1 is TV’s most lavish entry yet on small screen superhero operatics, a kind of “Batman before Batman” comic book noir look at the cesspool that is Gotham City, the dark, corrupt city that spawned the caped crusader. That isn’t necessarily to call it the best—based solely on debut seasons, I would happily […]