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‘The Avengers’ – the birth of the Marvel supergroup on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 10/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

A superhero spectacle years in the making, the first film to bring the heroes of the MCU together makes for a genuine comic book epic for the big screen.

Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, and Brian d'Arcy James in 'Spotlight,' directed by Tom McCarthy.

Oscar-winning drama ‘Spotlight’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, HBO Max, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/04/2022 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Tom McCarthy’s drama of the Boston Globe’s investigative team that revealed the Catholic Church’s cover-up of its priests who abuse children, is the kind of film that takes on the Big Subject with modesty and self-reflection.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, and Mark Ruffalo in Martin Scorsese's film of the Dennis Lahane novel

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, literary adaptation, Mystery, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Leonardo DiCaprio investigates the disappearance of an inmate of an island asylum in this mix of detective movie, psychological mystery, and paranoid thriller.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. in the David Fincher thriller

David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a short story, Blu-ray, DVD, Mystery, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 09/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jake Gyllenhaal play the newspaper cartoonist who became obsessed with the notorious unsolved Zodiac killings in Fincher’s mesmerizing thriller.

Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx collide in ‘Collateral’ on Netflix and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Essential Viewing, Have You Seen...?, Netflix, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 09/01/2022 Sean Axmaker

Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller is a smart, tense film pitting a coldly efficient assassin against the cabbie who inadvertently becomes his wheelman.

‘Now You See Me’ – a sleight-of-hand heist on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, caper, Crime, DVD, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco pay stage magicians who combine con games, high-concept heists, and an elaborate revenge plot in this silly but colorful and entertaining crime fantasy.

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 07/31/2022 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.

‘Where the Wild Things Are’ – a dreamy Maurice Sendak adaptation on Netflix

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, childhood, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

Director Spike Jonze expands and reimagines the story of the defiant Max from Sendak’s storybook as a live action wonder.

‘Margaret’ – a powerful American drama on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, high school, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

Anna Paquin stars in Kenneth Lonergan’s powerful, provocative, ambitious drama set in the shadow of September 11, 2001, a marvelously messy film about the messiness of emotions and people and relationships.

Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, and Mark Ruffalo in Rian Johnson's charming fantasy of a con movie 'The Brothers Bloom.'

‘The Brothers Bloom’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

Blu-ray, caper, Comedy, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/24/2018 Sean Axmaker

The Brothers Bloom (2008), the second feature from Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson, is a con artist comedy as living theater. After the almost color-leached images of his high-school noir Brick (2005), Johnson puts more brightness in his palette and more spring his step for this fantasy about stories and storytelling. In a […]