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Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman in '10 Cloverfield Lane'

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, horror, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/02/2023 Sean Axmaker

Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman star in this thriller that is stealthily weaved into the ‘Cloverfield’ universe,

Oscar-winning Hollywood love letter ‘The Artist’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Comedy, drama, DVD, film history, Film Independent Spirit Awards, International Cinema, Max, Romance, silent film, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/29/2023 Sean Axmaker

This valentine to silent movies is a sweet romantic comedy, a celebration of the dreams and fantasies, and magic of the movies of every age.

John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and George Clooney in the Coen Bros.' screwball odyssey 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'

‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ – That old-timey Coen comedy on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

George Clooney stars in the hilarious comedy from the Coen Bros., a depression-era prison break movie-turned-screwball odyssey through the deep south, based on Homer’s ‘The Odyssey.”

Last chance: ‘Argo’ – a stranger than fiction rescue tale on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, based on a true story, Blu-ray, caper, drama, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 09/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ben Affleck directs and stars in this based-on-a-true-story drama of the rescue of American hostages in Iran that won the Oscar for best picture.

Oscar Isaac in the Coen Bros. film 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ – Oscar Isaac breaks out on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, music, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Joel and Ethan Coen recreate the Greenwich Village scene and folk music culture of the early 1960s in this offbeat road movie featuring music crafted with the help of T-Bone Burnett.

‘Community: Complete Series’ on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Comedy, Emmy Award, Hulu, Netflix, satire, Streaming TV, SVOD 09/22/2021 Sean Axmaker

Dan Harmon’s comedy of life in community college is a smart, savvy, snappy comedy on the same comic wavelength as ’30 Rock,’ aimed at young adult sensibilities but with a mix of social satire, creatively exaggerated stereotypes, and lots of very clever pop culture parodies.

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 […]

Wendell Pierce in the HBO series Treme created by David Simon

Revisit ‘Treme’ and ‘When the Levees Broke’ to remember Katrina – Amazon Prime and HBO Now

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, Amazon Prime Video, Documentary, Streaming TV 08/30/2015 Sean Axmaker

This weekend marked the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, a natural disaster compounded by insufficient defenses and a disastrous response by the government. Looking for a proper way to mark the occasion? Amazon Prime and HBO subscribers have two very good options. Treme, David Simon’s follow-up to The Wire, is beautifully […]

The five-part BBC mini-series Dancing on the Edge, about the fortunes of a black jazz band in 1930s London, is now on Netflix

Jazzy British mini-series ‘Dancing on the Edge’ on Netflix

!Featured, British TV, Have You Seen...?, Netflix, Streaming TV 08/03/2015 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

The name Stephen Poliakoff doesn’t mean much to American TV and movie fans but in Britain he’s an acclaimed playwright and writer / director of original dramas on both the big screen and small screen. The five-part mini-series Dancing on the Edge follows the fortunes of a black jazz band in 1930s London as a […]