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‘The 6th Day’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger faces himself on Hulu

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Schwarzenegger takes on his own clone war in this science fiction thriller inspired in part by the work of Philip K. Dick.

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

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

Jeff Bridges has a ‘Crazy Heart’ on Prime Video

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Bridges won an Oscar playing a country music figure on the downhill slide of a career in the drama from filmmaker Scott Cooper.

Get your kicks on ‘Route 66: Complete Series’ on IMDbTV and Hoopla

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Martin Milner and George Maharis star in the original TV road show, traveling the country in a Corvette convertible and getting caught up in other people’s stories.

‘Apocalypse Now: Redux’ – Francis Ford Coppola’s trippy war epic on Netflix

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Coppola turns Vietnam into a war movie as drug-addled theme park ride with real tigers, exploding sets, and Marlon Brando as a mad guru warrior.

‘The Twilight Zone’ – enter another dimension on Hulu and Paramount+

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Submitted for your approval: Rod Serling, a writer whose mix of science fiction, fantasy, and social commentary results in the most celebrated and respected anthology series of all time.

‘Thank You For Smoking’ on Amazon Prime

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Aaron Eckhart is the glib, proudly obfuscating tobacco lobbyist in Jason Reitman’s wickedly witty adaptation of Christopher Buckley’s novel. He’s also our hero.

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 […]

‘Get Low’ with Robert Duvall and Bill Murray on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/05/2021 Sean Axmaker

A lovely film about regret, self-punishment and redemption on a scale both human and mythic (or at least American folkloric), Get Low (2009) is a feature film with the personality of a short story, filled with quietly offbeat characters and directed with a deft balance of comedy and tragedy. Which is why it had a […]

‘Naked City’ – the complete classic cop drama free on IMDbTV

!Featured, Action, Classic Movie, DVD, Emmy Award, IMDB TV, Streaming TV, SVOD 04/13/2020 Sean Axmaker

“There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.” The acclaimed cop show Naked City: Complete Series (1958-1959), set and shot on the streets of New York City, is ostensibly inspired by the influential 1948 film of the same name, a film noir with documentary immediacy. But it plays […]