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

Leaving soon: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ on Netflix and Paramount+

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, literary adaptation, Mystery, Netflix, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/18/2023 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.

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’ on Netflix and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a short story, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller 01/16/2023 Sean Axmaker

Tom Cruise is a cop who arrests criminals before they commit crimes in the future shock crime thriller based on a story by sci-fi visionary Philip K. Dick.

Russell Crowe is ‘Robin Hood’ on Netflix and Hulu

!Featured, Action, adventure, Blu-ray, DVD, historical, Hulu, Netflix, Streaming Movies 11/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott directs this muscular action adventure that reimagines the classic English tale with a new origin story, costarring Cate Blanchett and Oscar Isaac.

Robert Redford survives ‘Three Days of the Condor’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Paramount+, Politics, spies and espionage, SVOD, thriller 09/12/2022 Sean Axmaker

Faye Dunaway costars in this 1970s conspiracy thriller from director Sydney Pollack shot on New York streets and locations.

Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest in Woody Allen's 'Hannah and her Sisters'

‘Hannah and Her Sisters’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Essential Viewing, feel good movies, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest are the sisters looking for love in Woody Allen’s sweetest romantic comedy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is Conan the Barbarian on Netflix

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the original ‘Conan the Barbarian’ on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Peacock, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 06/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

Arnold Schwarzenegger was the defining action hero of Hollywood from the mid-1980s through the 1990s, yet before he made his breakthrough, he seem the most unlikely American screen icon to lumber his way up the Hollywood ladder. The former Austrian bodybuilder turned Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia (he retired his crown undefeated) seemed destined to […]

Max von Sydow and Bengt Ekerot star in the Swedish classic by Ingmar Bergman

Life, death, and chess in Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, historical, International Classics 03/10/2020 Sean Axmaker

Bergman is at his most allegorical in this medieval drama about a disillusioned knight returning home from the Crusades and meets death.

Ingrid Thulin and Max Von Sydow in the Swedish classic by Ingmar Bergman

Dark theater: Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Magician’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, art and artists, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, movies about theater, SVOD, Venice winner 03/10/2020 Sean Axmaker

Max von Sydow stars as a mute mesmerist who engages in a battle of wills with a rationalist in this chamber drama of theater, magic, and reason.

Victor Sjöström and Ingrid Thulin in the Swedish classic by Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman recalls the ‘Wild Strawberries’ of youth on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Cinema, road movie, Venice winner 07/19/2018 Sean Axmaker

In Wild Strawberries (Sweden, 1957), Ingmar Bergman takes that most venerable of modern genres, the road movie, and transforms it into the contemplative journey of an aging professor into his unexamined past. Victor Sjöström, one of the great Swedish director of the silent era as well as an actor (and one of Bergman’s heroes), was […]