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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 03/19/2022 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.

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

Last chance: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Last chance, literary adaptation, Mystery, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/22/2022 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 Netflix and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, Mystery, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 12/05/2021 Sean Axmaker

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

‘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.

Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx collide in ‘Collateral’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Essential Viewing, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/02/2021 Sean Axmaker

Tom Cruise is well cast as a coldly efficient professional assassin and Jamie Foxx is excellent as the cabbie who picks unwittingly drives him to his targets in Michael Mann’s coolly attenuated thriller Collateral (2004). Mann is the king of crime movie professionalism and his characters are the best at what they do, consummate professionals […]

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

Oscar-winning drama ‘Spotlight’

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/20/2021 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.

‘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 08/06/2020 Sean Axmaker

The Avengers (2012) is a superhero epic years in the making. Unlike The X-Men, which arrived full formed in 2000, The Avengers is the comic book version of the supergroup, with stars in their own right coming together (not without some friction and ego-thumping) for a battle royale. So Marvel put together a long term […]

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 […]

Saoirse Ronan stars in the Oscar-nominated film by Greta Gerwig

What to stream: ‘Lady Bird’ on Amazon, ‘Thor: Ragnorok’ on Netflix, a ‘Wrinkle’ on VOD

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, What to Stream 06/08/2018 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Greta Gerwig drew on her own experiences growing up eccentric and artistic in Sacramento for her directorial debut Lady Bird (2017, R), a funny and touching story of a high school […]