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Tommy Lee Jones is ‘The Homesman’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 01/11/2023 Sean Axmaker

Hilary Swank stars in this take on western that presents the West as a hard place that creates hard people and destroys the rest. Tommy Lee Jones also cowrites and directs.

John Travolta in Brian De Palma's 'Blow Out'

Brian De Palma’s ‘Blow Out’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Max, movies about movies, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

John Travolta delivers his best performance as a movie sound technician who inadvertently records a murder in this beautifully directed conspiracy thriller.

‘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.

‘The Tuskegee Airmen’ – America’s first Black Air Force squadron on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a true story, Black History, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, Max, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 02/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Andre Braugher star in the true story of the only Air Force squadron of World War II made up of African-American pilots.

Ken Burns’s ‘Prohibition’ on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, Documentary, DVD, Netflix, Streaming TV 03/07/2017 Sean Axmaker

Prohibition (2011), Ken Burns’ portrait of “the Noble Experiment” turned American disaster, follows Burns’s trademark approach to American history by putting big events into perspective through the personal stories of both significant historical figures and the everyday citizens. That’s particularly effective in the story of prohibition, which traditionally is presented in terms of the activism […]