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‘Sausage Party’ – Food, sex, and R-rated animation on Netflix

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, foodie film, Netflix, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/30/2023 Sean Axmaker

This raucous junk foodie fantasy stirs ‘American Pie,’ ‘Toy Story,’ ‘Logan’s Run,’ and every torture porn horror of the last decade into a raunchy paean to hedonism.

Leaving soon: James Franco and Seth Rogen ride the ‘Pineapple Express’ on Peacock

!Featured, Action, adventure, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

David Gordon Green made the leap from indie dramas of small town tragedy to make this hilarious stoner buddy comedy. Written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, produced by Judd Apatow, and Danny McBride and Gary Cole costar.

Tobey Maguire is back in Sam Raimi's sequel, with Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus

Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man 2’ on Netflix and Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, adventure, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, Netflix, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 06/27/2023 Sean Axmaker

The second installment of the original Spidey trilogy is a real supe-opera with young adult turmoil pushed into the realms of comic-book mythology with zippy action and spectacular set pieces.

Tobey Maguire stars on Sam Raimi's big screen superhero movie

Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ – The original big screen webslinger on Netflix and Disney+

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, high school, Kid Stuff, Netflix, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 06/01/2023 Sean Axmaker

This 2002 film was the first to capture the graphic thrills and eye-popping spectacle of a true comic book superhero and it essentially launched the 21st century superhero genre.

‘Freaks and Geeks’ – complete and restored on Prime Video, Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult TV, DVD, Emmy Award, high school, Hulu, Paramount+, Streaming TV, SVOD 05/07/2023 Sean Axmaker

This brilliant but short-lived high school comedy drama is one of the sharpest shows of its era and launched a lot talent, among them Linda Cardellini and future filmmakers James Franco, Jason Segel, Seth Rogen, and John Francis Daley.

Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine , and James Franco star in Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers'

‘Spring Breakers’ – good girls gone bad on HBO Max and free on Kanopy

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Crime, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, high school, Kanopy, Max, music, satire, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller, young adult 04/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens are college girls caught up in the rush of sex, drugs, and crime in Harmony Korine’s cultural satire in Day-Glo color.

Sean Penn is Harvey Milk in the Oscar-winning film directed by Gus Van Sant

Sean Penn is Harvey ‘Milk’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Max, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Gus Van Sant directs this drama about the first openly gay man elected to public office in the U.S., with a focus on the human behind the legacy. It won an Oscar for its screenplay.

Last chance: James Franco has ‘127 Hours’ to save himself on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, Based on a nonfiction book, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Hulu, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Danny Boyle creates a vivid and cinematic version of outdoorsman and hiker Aron Ralston’s memoir of his real life survival story.

Rashida Jones stars in the police procedural parody 'Angie Tribeca'

‘Angie Tribeca’ – Season One on Hulu

!Featured, Comedy, Hulu, Streaming TV 06/19/2016 Sean Axmaker

Angie Tribeca: Season One – I loved Police Squad, the short-lived TV comedy from the creators of Airplane! that spoofed TV cop shows with an anything goes approach. Only six episodes were made before the networks gave up on it. This was 1982, after all, back in the days when only three major networks existed, […]