Tag: Joaquin Phoenix

What to stream: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Giri/Haji’ on Netflix, Aladdin’ on Disney+, ‘Joker’ on VOD

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Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services …  The weekly column is featured in The Seattle Times, The Spokesman-Review, and other newspapers. Joaquin Phoenix took home a Golden Globe for his performance as a mentally-troubled man who becomes a psychopathic supervillain in […]

What to stream: ‘High Flying Bird’ and Kevin Hart on Netflix, ‘Don’t Worry’ and ‘Papillon’ on Amazon, ‘Pen15’ on Hulu

!Featured, Streaming Movies, What to Stream 02/08/201902/07/2019 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh directs High Flying Bird (2019, not rated), a Netflix original sports drama about “the game on top of the game.” Written by “Moonlight” screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney and starring André […]

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in 'Inherent Vice,' Paul Thomas Anderson's loopy take on Thomas Pynchon's dope-infused private eye novel.

‘Inherent Vice’ on VOD

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Inherent Vice (2014), Paul Thomas Anderson’s loopy take on Thomas Pynchon’s dope-infused private eye novel, earned Anderson an Oscar nomination for his ingenious screenplay adaptation and critical raves for the rich pageant of eccentrics and oddballs bouncing through 1970 Los Angeles with a post-sixties hangover. I never read Pynchon’s novel so I’ll take the word […]