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‘The Last King of Scotland’ – Life under Idi Amin on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Hulu, Politics, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Forest Whitake won an Oscar playing the brutal dictator Idi Amin in this fictional drama starring James McAvoy as a brash Scottish doctor invited into the tyrant’s inner circle.

Leaving soon: ‘Atonement’ with Keira Knightly and James McAvoy on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, childhood, drama, DVD, historical, Hulu, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 07/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Joe Wright’s adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel bristles with life, lust, jealousy, betrayal, and tragedy with a small “t” and introduced the world to Saoirse Ronan.

Angelina Jolie is a holy assassin in ‘Wanted’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman star in this action fantasy about a secret society of assassins who take their instructions from a supernatural loom.

‘X-Men: First Class’ on Disney+ and Peacock

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Peacock, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 10/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

The fourth film in the mutant superhero series rewinds to the formation of the team in the 1960s with a cast of young actors taking over the roles.

Anna Popplewell, William Moseley, and Georgie Henley in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’ on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Disney gave the beloved C.S. Lewis adventure fantasy about a quartet of English children in a land of magic the epic treatment in the first film in an lavish adventure fantasy.

Michael Fassbender in 'X-Men Apocalypse'

‘X-Men Apocalypse’ on Disney+

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 10/26/2021 Sean Axmaker

The sixth feature in the official X-Men big screen franchise wraps the series with another end-of-the-world battle with the young incarnations of the mutant team of superheroes.

Charlize Theron goes ‘Atomic Blonde’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, SVOD, thriller 03/24/2018 Sean Axmaker

Lean, mean, swift, and sure, Atomic Blonde (2017) is the kind of action movie we need in the contemporary morass of CGIed to mush spectacle. That’s not to say it eschews digital effects but director David Leitch, a co-creator and uncredited co-director of John Wick and a veteran stuntman and stunt choreographer, uses digital manipulation […]