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Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfus, and Robert Shaw star in Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster

‘Jaws’ – the original summer blockbuster on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Netflix, Summer movie, SVOD, thriller 09/09/2023 Sean Axmaker

Steven Spielberg’s meticulously-directed, tension-filled, career-redefining thrill machine is as effective today as it was in 1975 when it became a pop culture sensation.

Robert De Niro in the Martin Scorese gangster epic with Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ on Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, based on a true story, Blu-ray, DVD, gangsters, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/28/2023 Sean Axmaker

Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci star with Sharon Stone and James Woods in this sprawling mob epic of organized crime in 1970s Las Vegas.

Steve Carrell stars in the comedy directed by Judd Apatow

Steve Carrell is ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

Judd Apatow made his directorial debut with this oddly sweet mix of romantic comedy and adolescent shenanigans costarring Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, and Seth Rogen.

Chris Pratt in 'Jurassic World,' directed by Colin Trevorrow

‘Jurassic World’ – Building a better dinosaur on Peacock

!Featured, adventure, Blu-ray, DVD, giant monsters, Peacock, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD 07/01/2023 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

The modern day dinosaur franchise returns after 15 years with Chris Pratt as a velociraptor trainer and Bryce Dallas Howard as the park administrator.

Leaving soon: ‘Written on the Wind’ – the bad and the beautiful on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 05/20/2023 Sean Axmaker

Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into “soap opera” in this exquisitely baroque melodrama with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.

Matthew McConaughey won an Academy Award for playing Ron Woodroof in the film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée

Oscar-winning ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto won Academy Awards for this drama about an unlikely hero in the early days of the AIDS crisis.

‘The Bride of Frankenstein’ – a delirious sequel on Peacock and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, National Film Registry, Peacock, pre-code, SVOD, thriller 10/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Boris Karloff wrings even more pathos from his plight as the misunderstood monster and Elsa Lanchester’s hissing, birdlike performance as the bride made her an instant icon.

The original ‘Frankenstein’ on Peacock and Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, Peacock, pre-code, Science Fiction, SVOD, thriller 10/02/2022 Sean Axmaker

Boris Karloff is the misunderstood monster in James Whale’s 1931 adaptation of the Mary shelley classic, the granddaddy of modern monster movies.

Aubrey Plaza stars with Elizabeth Olsen in the social media satire turned stalker drama from filmmaker Matt Spicer

Last Chance: ‘Ingrid Goes West’ – Aubrey Plaza is following you on Hulu

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, Hulu, satire, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 06/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

This American indie film is a discomfortingly funny satire of social media obsession and living virtually through online interaction that goes into some dark places.

‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, Science Fiction, SVOD 01/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

The title may sound like pure pulp but The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Jack Arnold’s screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel The Shrinking Man, is compassionate, intelligent, and the most metaphysical American science fiction film until Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scott Carey (Grant Williams), just a guy on a daylong boating excursion, drifts […]