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Leaving soon: ‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’ – the definitive version of a visionary film on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Hulu, National Film Registry, Science Fiction, Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott’s visionary reworking of Philip K. Dick’s novel may have flopped when it was released but it has become a science fiction touchstone and has colonized the imaginations of writers, directors, and die-hard fans of science fiction.

Christian Bale is Batman in Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins'

‘Batman Begins’ – Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight on HBO Max and Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, Hulu, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, superheroes, SVOD 02/20/2023 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman mythos for the big screen in 2005, bringing the often lighthearted hero back to the shadows, both figuratively and literally.

'Sin City' from Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller

‘Sin City’ – hard-boiled pulp fiction on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, film noir, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Rodriguez pulls out all stylistic stops to translate the most graphic of graphic novels—Frank Miller’s Sin City tales,—from two-dimensional pages to free-floating big screen action.

Rutger Hauer stars in the grindhouse tribute from Jason Eisener

‘Hobo with a Shotgun’ blasts its way to Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, Hoopla, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 06/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Rutger Hauer stars in this blood-spattered love letter to the grindhouse vengeance movie that cranks everything up to 11.

Rutger Hauer in ‘Legend of the Holy Drinker’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/26/2019 Sean Axmaker

“I have no home. I sleep under bridges. A different bridge every night. But I am a man of honor.” Rutger Hauer delivers his most delicate and nuanced performance as Andreas Kartak, a homeless alcoholic in Paris in Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), Ermanno Olmi’s adaptation of Joseph Roth’s novella. Andreas, who frequents taverns […]

Alexander Dreymon in the BBC series 'The Last Kingdom'

‘The Last Kingdom’ – Medieval Britain on Netflix

!Featured, British TV, Netflix, Streaming TV 07/10/2016 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

The Last Kingdom: Season 1 (2015), based on the first two novels in Bernard Cornwell’s “The Saxon Stories” series of historical novels, retells the story of King Alfred the Great, the ninth century Saxon King of Wessex, through the eyes of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (Alexander Dreymon). Born a Saxon but captured and raised by a Danish […]