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Peter Sarsgaard is Stanley Milgram in Michael Almereyda's 'Experimenter'

‘Experimenter’ with Peter Sarsgaard on MUBI and free on Kanopy

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, MUBI, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/01/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Sarsgaard plays Yale psychology professor Stanley Milgram in Michael Almereyda’s inventive drama about his life and legendary experiments that shocked the world.

Last chance: George Romero enters the ‘Land of the Dead’ on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

The fourth film in Romero’s ‘Dead’ series leans in to the social commentary without skimping on the carnage and the spectacle.

Keanu Reeves is John Wick in the sequel that takes him to Rome

‘John Wick Chapter 2’ – the action continues

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 07/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Keanu Reeves is back from retirement as the assassin extraordinaire in the action-packed sequel to the hit movie.

Keanu Reeves is retired assassin John Wick roused back for a mission of vengeance in the 2014 action hit directed by Chad Stahelski

Keanu Reeves is ‘John Wick’

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Cult Movies, DVD, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 07/05/2022 Sean Axmaker

This 2014 action movie hit revived a kind of thriller that Hollywood had ignored in the age of superhero movies: simple, streamlined, driven by action scenes that rely on physical prowess rather than computer generated elements. It also turned Keanu Reeves into an unexpectedly terrific action star.

Ethan Hawke in ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

This 2005 remake of John Carpenter’s siege thriller is surprisingly taut, tight, and effective. Laurence Fishburne costars.

‘Ice Age’ – Jungle Book on ice on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, Animation, Blu-ray, Comedy, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, SVOD 12/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

A mastodon, a sloth, and a sabertooth tiger team up to return an infant human to its tribe in this animated quest adventure.

Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in 'American Ultra.' Photo credit: Lionsgate

‘American Ultra’ – stoners and spies on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 07/11/2021 Sean Axmaker

American Ultra (2015) reworks The Bourne Identity as a slacker comedy with a killer punchline. Jesse Eisenberg is Mike Howell, a sweet, underachieving stoner prone to panic attacks. He gets by as convenience store clerk in a dead-end West Virginia town with a supportive girlfriend, Phoebe (Kristen Stewart), who is almost impossibly understanding when it […]