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‘The Hunger Games’ – May the odds be ever in your favor on Hulu

!Featured, Action, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, Science Fiction, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD, thriller 06/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

The hit young adult science fiction novels by Suzanne Collins comes to the big screen with Jennifer Lawrence in a star-making performance as reluctant hero Katnis Everdeen.

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ – Katnis returns on Peacock

!Featured, Action, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Peacock, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller, young adult 04/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

The second film in the young adult dystopian series ups the ante and improves upon the first in every way, thanks to director Francis Lawrence who takes charge of the franchise here.

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan star in 'Anthropoid,' directed by Sean Ellis.

‘Anthropoid’ – Killing Heydrich on Hulu and Kanopy

!Featured, Action, based on a true story, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, historical, Hulu, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 09/02/2019 Sean Axmaker

Anthropoid (2016) isn’t the first film to dramatize the real-life operation to assassinate SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Final Solution and Hitler’s third in command in the Nazi hierarchy. That honor belongs to Fritz Lang, who made the highly fictionalized and highly charged Hangmen Also Die in 1943, barely a year after the […]

Charlize Theron goes ‘Atomic Blonde’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, SVOD, thriller 03/24/2018 Sean Axmaker

Lean, mean, swift, and sure, Atomic Blonde (2017) is the kind of action movie we need in the contemporary morass of CGIed to mush spectacle. That’s not to say it eschews digital effects but director David Leitch, a co-creator and uncredited co-director of John Wick and a veteran stuntman and stunt choreographer, uses digital manipulation […]

Billy Howle stars in the Agatha Christie adaptation with Toby Jones, Kim Cattrall, and Andrea Riseborough

‘Witness for the Prosecution’ – A darker shade of Agatha Christie on Acorn

!Featured, Acorn TV, Action, Blu-ray, British TV, DVD, literary adaptation, miniseries, Mystery, SVOD 09/18/2017 Sean Axmaker

The British telefilm version of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution (2016) returns to the original source material, in this case the 1925 short story, to create a very different version from the play and 1957 film. It’s set in London after World War I where Leonard Vole (Billy Howle), a former soldier struggling to […]

Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook in the BBC comedy 'Detectorists.'

‘Detectorists: Season 1’ on Netflix and Acorn

!Featured, Acorn TV, British TV, Netflix, Streaming TV 12/01/2015 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Mackenzie Crook (who played Gareth in the original British The Office) writes, directs, and stars in Detectorists: Season 1 as Andy, one half of a team of obsessed detectorists (the correct name for someone who uses a metal detector, as they are quick to remind anyone and everyone) searching for ancient Saxon treasures in their […]