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‘Over the Hedge’ – animated animals take on suburbia on Peacock

!Featured, Animation, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Kid Stuff, Peacock, SVOD 08/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Bruce Willis and Garry Shandling provide the voices for the woodland creatures who find their home surrounded by human habitation in this animated comedy based on the newspaper comic strip.

Russell Crowe is ‘Noah’ on Prime Video, Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Biblical, Blu-ray, DVD, historical, MGM+, Paramount+, religious, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/27/2023 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Darren Aronofsky takes a very different approach to the Biblical epic with a film both earthy and mystical, costarring Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson.

Ang Lee directs ‘Hulk’ on Hulu

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, giant monsters, Hulu, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 07/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

The first big screen adaptation of the Marvel Comics character stars Eric Bana as the scientist who turns into a giant green behemoth when when he loses his temper.

Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy have ’48 Hrs.’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 03/29/2022 Sean Axmaker

Walter Hill pretty much created the contemporary buddy action movie with gritty crime thriller grounded in the great chemistry of the leads.

Last chance: Paul Schrader’s ‘Affliction’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Last chance, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Paul Schrader made his mark on American cinema revealing the scarred psyches of American men trying to reconcile the contradictions of masculine fantasy and social reality, from his screenplays for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to his own movies, beginning with Blue Collar. Affliction (1998), adapted from the novel by Russell Banks, is his most […]

Nick Nolte stars in Neil Jordan's colorful heist drama 'The Good Thief,' with Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, and Ralph Fiennes

‘The Good Thief’ on Netflix

!Featured, Have You Seen...?, Netflix, Streaming Movies 11/07/2015 Sean Axmaker

A faithful remake, a spirited updating, and a deft, colorful, thoroughly entertaining heist film swimming in character and atmosphere, Neil Jordan’s The Good Thief (2002), his reworking of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob Le Flambeur, may not be his best film, but it is one of his most purely enjoyable. The payoffs are many: Nick Nolte’s shaggy performance […]

Nick Nolte in Paul Schrader's 'Affliction,' co-starring Willem Dafoe, Sissy Spacek and James Coburn

‘Affliction’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies 10/11/2015 Sean Axmaker

Paul Schrader spent decades of exploring the scarred psyches of American men who succumb to violence when pain overcomes reason, but nowhere as poignantly and powerfully as in Affliction (1997), his adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel. Affliction stars Nick Nolte as Wade Whitehouse, an unambitious, jocular small town sheriff and odd job man to a […]