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Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker on Netflix

Oscar winner ‘The Hurt Locker’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller, war 01/30/2023 Sean Axmaker 3 Comments

Kathryn Bigelow directs this searing drama of men under fire and how war tranforms them and entered the record books as the first woman to win the Oscar for best director.

‘Skyfall’ – James Bond faces his past on Netflix and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, British Cinema, DVD, Netflix, Paramount+, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller 08/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

007 gets a backstory and Judi Dench gets her hands dirty as M in the 23rd official Bond movie, directed with high style by Sam Mendes.

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in the third "Harry Potter" feature

‘Harry Potter’ – the complete saga on HBO Max and Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Max, Peacock, Streaming Movies, supernatural, SVOD 07/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

Watch Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson grow up through the eight films that bring the beloved books chronicling the epic odyssey of boy wizard Harry and his friends to the screen.

Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, fantasy, Max, Politics, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ralph Fiennes and Tony Revolori star in this bittersweet comic drama, mix of adventure, murder mystery, old-world tale, storybook fable, and sinister conspiracy.

Helen Mirren is Jane Tennison in 'Prime Suspect'

The Complete ‘Prime Suspect’ with Helen Mirren on BritBox

!Featured, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, BritBox, British TV, DVD, Streaming TV, SVOD 10/18/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Helen Mirren got the role of a lifetime playing DCI Jane Tennison, a tough, tenacious, at times brittle woman in a brutally chauvinist British police culture in a series of smart mysteries.

Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in the Oscar-winning film by Anthony Minghella

‘The English Patient’ – Love in wartime on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, literary adaptation, Netflix, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 11/22/2018 Sean Axmaker

The African desert, WWII, and romance… no doubt about it, The English Patient (1996) is a Casablanca for the 90s, directed with sweep, elegance, and grand passions by Anthony Minghella from his screenplay adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s novel. Ralph Fiennes, scarred by fire and buried under bandages like an Egyptian mummy, is the mysterious patient […]

‘Spectre’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Streaming Movies 10/22/2016 Sean Axmaker

Spectre (2015), the 24th James Bond film and the fourth starring Daniel Craig, continues to explore the origins of 007. The opening scene, set in Mexico City in the midst of the Day of the Dead celebrations, is one of the best in the series, and we get the fun of Bond once again going rogue, […]

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 […]