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Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, DVD, Netflix, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller, war 07/04/2022 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.

‘Interstellar’ – quantum science fiction on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Christopher Nolan directs this ambitious science fiction tale of interstellar exploration starring Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain.

Mia Wasikowska is an American heiress in a British haunted manor in Guillermo Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak'

‘Crimson Peak’ – Guillermo Del Toro’s Gothic ghost story on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, horror, Netflix, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain star in this Gothic romance with notes of horror and bathed in the unreal and magical colors of a baroque Italian horror.

Last chance: ‘Take Shelter’ – Madness and the end of the world on Hulu

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Hulu, Last chance, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, supernatural, SVOD, thriller 09/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Jeff Nichols builds an an apocalyptic thriller around a touching family drama of a troubled father (Michael Shannon) determined to protect his family from the impending Armageddon he sees in his visions.

‘A Most Violent Year’ on Showtime and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Kanopy, Showtime Anytime, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 07/11/2020 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

A Most Violent Year (2014) should have been an Oscar contender. Written and directed by J.C. Chandor (Margin Call) and set in the crime-ridden culture of early 1980s New York City (which was the most violent year on record in the city’s history), smart, shadowy tribute to the crime dramas of the seventies and early eighties, […]

Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain in Liv Ullman's 'Miss Julie'

Jessica Chastain is ‘Miss Julie’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, adapted from the stage, Amazon Prime Video, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/08/2018 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

You can imagine Miss Julie (2014), Liv Ullman’s screen adaptation of the August Strindberg play, as a call back to the classic 1951 Swedish screen adaptation by Alf Sjöberg, who was a mentor to Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish master who directed Ullman to some of her greatest performances. Ullman directed Bergman’s screenplay in Faithless and […]

Matt Damon is 'The Martian' in the science fiction drama directed by Ridley Scott

‘The Martian’ on Blu-ray and DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, DVD, Science Fiction 01/25/2017 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

The Martian (2015), winner of two Golden Globe Awards and nominated for seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Actor for Matt Damon), is the rare science fiction drama that is actually built on applied physics and engineering and organic chemistry and where survival depends on creative problem solving and teamwork across millions of miles. […]