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Tom Cruise in ‘Oblivion’ on Netflix and Hulu

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 11/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Before ‘Top Gun: Oblivion,’ Joseph Kosinski directed Tom Cruise in this visuallty exciting if somewhat derivative science fiction thriller set in a post-apocalyptic future.

Last chance: ‘Frozen River’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 09/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Courtney Hunt directs Melissa Leo to an Oscar-nominated performance in this powerful drama of two women tossed together by necessity.

Mark Wahlberg is ‘The Fighter’ on Netflix, Prime Video, and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Netflix, Paramount+, sports, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/30/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Christian Bale and Melissa Leo earned Oscars for their supporting turns in the true-life late-career comeback sports drama directed by David O. Russell.

Tommy Lee Jones in ‘The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 09/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

The directorial of Tommy Lee Jones is an odyssey of a contemporary western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate.

‘Oblivion’ – Tom Cruise patrols a devastated Earth on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/16/2021 Sean Axmaker

Director Joseph Kosinski brings a grand visual scope and a great sense of energy to a film that borrows liberally from previous science fiction classics.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in Oliver Stone's "Snowden."

Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/02/2020 Sean Axmaker

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is disillusioned idealist Edward Snowden in Snowden (2016), Oliver Stone’s drama about the controversial NSA whistleblower. Framed by the famous meeting in a Hong Kong hotel room where Snowden (played with modest integrity by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) shared top-secret files revealing illegal surveillance programs with journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and documentarian Laura Poitras […]

DVD: ‘Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Series’ from Shout! Factory

Action, DVD, DVD only 07/06/2017 Sean Axmaker

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Series (Shout! Factory) Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) earned its reputation as the best show on TV during its run in the 1990s from the very beginning. In the pilot episode, “Gone For Goode,” rookie detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) walks into the squad room of Baltimore’s […]

Wendell Pierce in the HBO series Treme created by David Simon

Revisit ‘Treme’ and ‘When the Levees Broke’ to remember Katrina – Amazon Prime and HBO Now

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, Amazon Prime Video, Documentary, Streaming TV 08/30/2015 Sean Axmaker

This weekend marked the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, a natural disaster compounded by insufficient defenses and a disastrous response by the government. Looking for a proper way to mark the occasion? Amazon Prime and HBO subscribers have two very good options. Treme, David Simon’s follow-up to The Wire, is beautifully […]