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‘Madagascar’ – back to the wild on Peacock

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Peacock, SVOD 05/05/2022 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.

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

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

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, National Film Registry, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/15/2022 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’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Crime Cinema, DVD, Essential Viewing, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/02/2021 Sean Axmaker

Tom Cruise is well cast as a coldly efficient professional assassin and Jamie Foxx is excellent as the cabbie who picks unwittingly drives him to his targets in Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller Collateral (2004). Mann is the king of crime movie professionalism and his characters are the best at what they do, consummate professionals […]

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

!Featured, adventure, Animation, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/18/2020 Sean Axmaker

“Something’s wrong. The birds are all gone. The animals too.” Hayao Miyazaki recasts the mythic tale of man’s dominion over the Earth with an animist mythology and a conservationist message in Princess Mononoke (Japan, 1997), his rich fantasy of the battle between the forest spirits and the industrial revolution. Set in the era of Japan’s […]

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 […]