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‘Network’ – TV news as a media circus on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, National Film Registry, satire, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Faye Dunaway and William Holden star in this scathing (and remarkably prescient) satire of TV news from writer Paddy Chayefsky and director William Holden.

Johnny Depp is a lizard in the old West in ‘Rango’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Animation, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Have You Seen...?, Kid Stuff, Netflix, satire, Spaghetti Cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 02/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

This offbeat animated adventure is like a spaghetti western remake of ‘Chinatown.’

‘Deliverance’ – A harrowing backcountry odyssey on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, literary adaptation, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 09/24/2019 Sean Axmaker

Deliverance (1972), John Boorman’s harrowing adaptation of James Dickey’s novel, is as bracing and haunting now as it was when it first shook up audiences 35 years ago. Jon Voight stars as an urban family man whose weekend escape in a whitewater canoe trip with three friends down a soon-to-be-gone Appalachian river transforms from a […]

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 […]