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Rock Hudson has ‘Seconds’ on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, Kanopy, National Film Registry, SVOD, thriller 07/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

John Frankenheimer’s paranoid thriller offers a second chance at a dream life that turns alienating and nightmarish for its hero.

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

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Netflix, Paramount+, sports, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/01/2022 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.

Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in the J.J. Abrams revival of the original Enterprise crew

‘Star Trek’ – A new beginning on Paramount+

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Last chance, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

J.J. Abrams dares to rewrite Trek lore with an origin story that chronicles the first voyage of the Enterprise crew with a mission that sends them into a whole new chapter of Federation history.

‘Merrily We Go to Hell’ – Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March spiral on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Criterion Collecton, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Hollywood Classic, pre-code, socially aware cinema, SVOD 04/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Dorothy Arzner’s daring pre-code romantic drama delves into open marriage and alcoholism during Prohibition.

Ellar Coltrane and Ethan Hawke in Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood'

Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/16/2022 Sean Axmaker

This tale of one boy’s life was shot over the course of 12 years where we watch star Ellar Coltrane grow up on camera. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawks costar.

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.

Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby'

The original ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ on Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, horror, Hulu, Paramount+, suspense, SVOD, thriller 02/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Roman Polanski’s American directing debut is an urban horror classic and a master class in paranoia.

Charles Laughton and Kathleen Burke in the 1932 horror classic based on H.G. Wells' 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'

Are we not men? – ‘Island of Lost Souls’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, pre-code, SVOD 10/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

“Are we not men?” Charles Laughton stars in the first screen version of the H.G. Wells novel and (for all the changes from the novel) still the defining one.

Marlon Brando stars in the Oscar-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ trilogy

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, gangsters, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/26/2021 Sean Axmaker

“It’s not personal. It’s strictly business.” Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s bestseller remains the great American epic of the immigrant dream turned family business. Al Pacino stars as Michael Corleone, the clean-cut white sheep and patriotic soldier boy son of New York Godfather Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando in an Oscar–winning performance), and this […]

Amy Adams in 'Arrival,' directed by Denis Villeneuve

‘Arrival’ – First contact on Hulu and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Paramount+, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

Arrival (2016) is the most cerebral of first contact films, a science fiction drama about communicating across cultures and across species and even across time without a common language, while failing to communicate within our own world. It is a film that looks out beyond our galaxy and inward to our own souls, to challenge […]