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‘Where the Wild Things Are’ – a dreamy Maurice Sendak adaptation on Max

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, childhood, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

Director Spike Jonze expands and reimagines the story of the defiant Max from Sendak’s storybook as a live action wonder.

Leaving soon: ‘Enough Said’ – Love the second time around on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Hulu, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfin (in his final screen role) star in Nicole Holofcener’s romantic drama.

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, DVD, Peacock, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller, war 01/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jessica Chastain stars in the searing story of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and legacy of torture in America’s war on terror.

‘Not Fade Away’ – coming of age in the sixties on Hulu

!Featured, art and artists, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, music, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/17/2021 Sean Axmaker

Not Fade Away (2012), the autobiographical feature debut by The Sopranos creator David Chase, is not the usual rise-and-fall story of the rock and roll band. There is a band at the center of the film and Douglas (John Magaro), a Jersey kid who graduates from high school as an overlooked schlub looking for something […]

‘The Sopranos’ – Meet the family on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Emmy Award, Essential Viewing, gangsters, Max, Streaming TV, SVOD 01/05/2019 Sean Axmaker

The Sopranos debuted on HBO in January of 1999 and changed the television landscape forever. More than simply “The Godfather Sees a Shrink,” the brilliant made-for-cable drama gave “family crisis” a whole new meaning and television drama a new sophistication. Emmy winner James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, a blue collar guy in an upper-middle class neighborhood, […]

Peter Capaldi is Malcolm Tucker in 'In the Loop'

‘In the Loop’ on Netflix

!Featured, Comedy, Election Special, Netflix, Streaming Movies 10/20/2016 Sean Axmaker

In the Loop (2009), a fiercely funny and profane satire of British party politics and international diplomacy, makes the case that politics is no place for idealists or amateurs. The triumph of director Armando Iannucci (Veep), his writers, and especially his star, Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who), is that for all the raucous chaos and foul […]