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‘Contagion’ – Steven Soderbergh predicts the global pandemic on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Peacock, Politics, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 11/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, and Marion Cotillard star in Soderbergh’s prescient thriller about the social and political response to a global pandemic, made a decade before Covid.

Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'

Jim Carrey discovers ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Peacock, Romance, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/02/2023 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Jim Carrey fights to hold onto memories of a past romance in this poignant, touching, and sometimes painfully funny in this playfully inventive romantic fantasy from writer Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry.

‘Flushed Away’ – Aardman Animation’s underground adventure on Peacock

!Featured, adventure, Animation, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Peacock, spies and espionage, SVOD 06/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, and Ian McKellen provide the voices in this spirited comedy of a pet mouse who becomes a hero in a subterranean London world.

Hiromasa Yonebayashi directs the animated fantasy based on the children's novel by British author Mary Stewart

‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ – a magical odyssey on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Animation, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies 04/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

A normal human schoolgirl receives magical powers from a flower that blooms once every seven year in this magical fantasy by Japanese animator and filmmaker Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

Michael Fassbender stars as 'Steve Jobs' in the feature written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle

‘Steve Jobs’ on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/18/2020 Sean Axmaker

Steve Jobs (2015) isn’t the usual big screen biopic. Ostensibly adapted from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography, Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay discards the familiar birth-to-death sweep to offer a triptych of snapshots of Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who became the face of the company over his stormy stewardship, driving innovation and driving out opposition. Apart from […]

Evan Rachel Wood and Kate Winslet in the 2011 miniseries adaptation of the James M. Cain novel by Todd Haynes

‘Mildred Pierce’ – the miniseries on Amazon Prime and HBO Now

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Emmy Award, Have You Seen...?, miniseries, remake, Streaming TV, SVOD 11/20/2018 Sean Axmaker

Mildred Pierce (2011) is less a remake than a new run at adapting the James M. Cain novel. Previously made into a Hollywood classic (which earned Joan Crawford her only Oscar), it’s been transformed into a five-hour mini-series by director Todd Haynes, who cast Kate Winslet in the title role as the mother blindly devoted […]