Marion Cotillard – Stream On Demand

‘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.

‘Public Enemies’ – John Dillinger vs. the FBI on Netflix

!Featured, Action, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, gangsters, historical, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/19/2023 Sean Axmaker

Johnny Depp is John Dillinger and Christian Bale is agent Melvin Purvis in Michael Mann’s take on the gangster glory days of the depression.

Owen Wilson in Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'

‘Midnight in Paris’ – a love letter to the city of lights on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, historical, Hulu, movies about art, movies about literature, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/09/2023 Sean Axmaker

Owen Wilson is an American in Paris who get transported back in time to the company of the Lost Generation artists of the twenties in the romantic comedy from Woody Allen.

‘Inception’ – Christopher Nolan’s mind-heist

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, caper, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/04/2023 Sean Axmaker

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this caper film that heists dreams instead of treasure. It is surely the most cerebral action thriller to become a blockbuster.

Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard in 'The Immigrant,' directed by James Gray.

‘The Immigrant’ with Marion Cotillard on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, historical, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

James Gray’s drama of a Polish immigrant who lands in the margins of society in 1921 New York to survive costars Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner.

Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

‘Two Days, One Night’ on Kanopy

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Criterion, DVD, Free, International Cinema, Kanopy, socially aware cinema 06/11/2022 Sean Axmaker

Marion Cotillard earnerd an Oscar nomination a working class wife and mother fighting to keep her job in this French drama from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

Marion Cotillard and Mathieu Amalric in the French drama by Arnaud Desplechin

‘Ismael’s Ghosts’ – Life, art, and love on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, art and artists, drama, DVD, International Cinema, movies about movies, Romance, SVOD 02/06/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin makes films about the messiness of families, lovers, and creative lives that can become quite messy in their telling. Ismael’s Ghosts (France, 2018) jumps abruptly back and forth in time and between biography and fiction and dreams, smudging the line between biography, fiction, and artistic imagination. Desplechin regular Mathieu Amalric is […]

The animated film 'The Little Prince' debuts on Netflix in the U.S.

What to stream: ‘The Little Prince’ on Netflix and other choice picks on Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, VOD, and more

!Featured, Animation, Netflix, VOD, What to Stream 08/05/2016 Sean Axmaker

The Little Prince (2016), an animated feature based on the beloved novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda), is a big-budget American production from a major studio and played in theaters around the world (where it was a success) but Sony dumped it straight to Netflix in […]