Matthew McConaughey – Stream On Demand

Matthew McConaughey won an Academy Award for playing Ron Woodroof in the film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée

Oscar-winning ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ on Prime Video

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Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto won Academy Awards for this drama about an unlikely hero in the early days of the AIDS crisis.

Matthew McConaughey is ‘Mud’ on HBO Max

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The third film from director Jeff Nichols is a story of childhood adventure steeped in the rural culture of life on the Mississippi and the mythology of Huckleberry Finn, but this boy’s adventure is also tangled in the world of adults and family bonds.

‘Dazed and Confused’ – back to the seventies on Prime Video

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Richard Linklater’s cinematic flashback captures a rich pageant of high school life, circa 1976, in a mere 100 minutes.

Channing Tatum is 'Magic Mike' in an unexpectedly compelling story inspired by the actor's real life experiences. Steven Soderbergh directs.

Channing Tatum is ‘Magic Mike’ on HBO Max

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Steven Soderbergh directs Channing Tatum in a film inspired by his life as a male stripper, the first in what has become a trilogy.

‘Interstellar’ – quantum science fiction on Paramount+

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Christopher Nolan directs this ambitious science fiction tale of interstellar exploration starring Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain.

The animated adventure 'Kubo and the Two Strings' from Laika

‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ – An animated Japanese odyssey on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) – In the age of CGI and Pixar’s animation domination, the Oregon-based Laika is keeping the art of stop-motion animation alive in inventive, engaging, and engrossing features filled with textures and details you won’t find in even the greatest Pixar accomplishments. “If you must blink, do it now,” recommends […]

‘Frailty’ – Bill Paxton’s directorial debut on Netflix

!Featured, horror, Netflix, Streaming Movies, suspense 03/04/2017 Sean Axmaker

Bill Paxton left a great legacy of screen characters behind when he passed away earlier this year. What isn’t as well known is that Paxton also directed films. Frailty (2001) is his directorial debut and it is marvelously off-balance and under-the-skin creepy from the first few minutes. It’s a southern gothic take on the serial […]