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Leaving soon: Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, biographical, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, historical, International Cinema, SVOD 09/24/2023 Sean Axmaker

Benicio Del Toro plays Ernesto Che Guevara in this two-part film that covers two key periods in the life of the infamous revolutionary.

Russell Crowe is ‘Robin Hood’

!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.

Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina

‘Ex Machina’ – It’s man vs machine on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, Max, psychological drama, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD 08/11/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac star in this smart and wily science fiction thriller where the ideas are the spectacle. It’s the directorial debut of Alex Garland.

Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain face ‘A Most Violent Year’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/03/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

J.C. Chandor writes and directs this drama set in the crime-ridden culture of early 1980s New York City, a smart, shadowy tribute to the American crime dramas of the seventies.

Oscar Isaac in the Coen Bros. film 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ – Oscar Isaac breaks out on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, historical, music, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Joel and Ethan Coen recreate the Greenwich Village scene and folk music culture of the early 1960s in this offbeat road movie featuring music crafted with the help of T-Bone Burnett.

Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac star in Zach Snyder's incoherent fantasy

Last chance: ‘Sucker Punch’ – Zack Snyder’s film maudit on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Incoherent, absurd, confused, and strangely fascinating, this bizarre adventure is Grimm fairy tale, Gothic thriller, twisted film noir, wacked-out madhouse melodrama, modern video game, and cheesecake spectacle directed with pulp and fantasy imagery overkill.

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.

‘Drive’ – Ryan Gosling’s getaway on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Peacock, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD 08/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Sleek pulp crime cool meets arthouse style thriller in Drive (2011, R) starring Ryan Gosling as a taciturn getaway driver. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (a veteran of gritty, brutal Danish underworld dramas) with a silky smoothness and a stylized cool that recalls Le Samourai and Walter Hill’s The Driver, and an eighties vibe and […]

Benicio Del Toro is Ernesto Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's biographical drama

Benicio Del Toro is ‘Che’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, biographical, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, Streaming Movies 12/12/2017 Sean Axmaker

Steven Soderbergh’s two-part Che (2008), starring Benicio Del Toro as the revolutionary leader turned martyred legend and idealized cultural icon, is not a tradition bio-pic. Spanning four-and-a-half hours over two films—Part One on the triumph in Cuba, Part Two on the failure in Bolivia—it’s both two films and a single, unified work that focuses on […]

J.J. Abrams takes the reins from George Lucas for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens,' with Daisy Ridley and John Boyega joining series vets Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill.

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ on Cable and Digital On Demand

!Featured, On Demand, Science Fiction, VOD 05/04/2016 Sean Axmaker

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) – J.J. Abrams takes the reins of the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas with what is technically a sequel (Chapter VII: The Force Awakens) but is just as much a course correction, a reboot, and a return to the source. It’s been called a shameless remake of the […]