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Michael Fassbender stars in the darkly absurdist frontier odyssey 'Slow West'

‘Slow West’ – Michael Fassbender on the frontier on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, HBO Max, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD, western 09/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Kodi Smit-McPhee plays a Scottish immigrant who followes the girl he loves to 19th century America in this darkly absurdist frontier odyssey.

‘Haywire’ – bad-ass action on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Peacock, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Steven Soderbergh builds this collision of drive-in assassin action movie and sleek art-house conspiracy thriller around the talents of MMA fighter Gina Carano.

‘300’ – Zach Snyder adapts Frank Miller on HBO Max and Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, historical, inspired by a true story, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 06/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

Forget realism, this is Greek history as a macho fantasy that privileges brute force over intellect and turns war in an epic gladiator battle.

‘Prometheus’- the ‘Alien’ prequel on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 03/07/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott returns to the ‘Alien’ universe with this visually magnificent odyssey with a weak script and a cosmic backdrop.

Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender star in the adaptation from director Cary Fukunaga

‘Jane Eyre’ with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, literary adaptation, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

Cary Fukunaga’s 2011 version of Charlotte Bronte’s novel embraces the gothic gloom and lonely isolation but never gives in to the darkness.

‘X-Men: First Class’ on Disney+

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 11/09/2021 Sean Axmaker

The fourth film in the mutant superhero series rewinds to the formation of the team in the 1960s with a cast of young actors taking over the roles.

Michael Fassbender in 'X-Men Apocalypse'

‘X-Men Apocalypse’ on Disney+

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 10/26/2021 Sean Axmaker

The sixth feature in the official X-Men big screen franchise wraps the series with another end-of-the-world battle with the young incarnations of the mutant team of superheroes.

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, caper, Cult Movies, DVD, SVOD, thriller, war 11/22/2020 Sean Axmaker

Is there another American filmmaker who takes such joy in telling stories and spinning cinematic spells as Quentin Tarantino? I don’t mean tackling big issues or making epic statements. I’m talking about the sheer pleasure of telling audiences a tale that takes them places they don’t expect and ways they haven’t quite experienced before. The […]

Michael Fassbender stars as 'Steve Jobs' in the feature written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle

‘Steve Jobs’ on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/18/2020 Sean Axmaker

Steve Jobs (2015) isn’t the usual big screen biopic. Ostensibly adapted from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography, Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay discards the familiar birth-to-death sweep to offer a triptych of snapshots of Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who became the face of the company over his stormy stewardship, driving innovation and driving out opposition. Apart from […]

Donnie Wahlberg, Neil McDonough, and the men of Easy Company in the miniseries from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks

‘Band of Brothers’ on Amazon Prime Video and HBO

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Emmy Award, historical, miniseries, Streaming TV, SVOD, war 05/28/2018 Sean Axmaker

After Saving Private Ryan in a single mission, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks teamed up to produce a chronicle of the European theater of World War II from a soldier’s-eye view on a vast canvas. The resulting made-for-HBO ten-hour miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), based on the non-fiction book by historian Stephen Ambrose, takes us […]