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Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Paul Sorvino, and Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese's gangster classic.

Martin Scorsese’s ‘GoodFellas’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Crime, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, gangsters, HBO Max, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci star in Scorsese’s violent, dynamic, exhilarating mob thriller, the greatest American gangster movie since Coppola’s ‘The Godfather.’

Clint Eastwood is ‘Dirty Harry’ on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, HBO Max, Netflix, SVOD 05/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Clint Eastwood transformed his western persona into an urban cowboy for the mean streets of our urban world in this iconic 1971 crime classic.

Ida Lupino is her own woman in ‘The Man I Love’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...? 05/12/2022 Sean Axmaker

Raoul Walsh directs this refreshingly mature drama of an independent woman in the post-war Los Angeles culture of swanky nightclubs and dive bars and the seedy, scheming characters who frequent them.

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the 1946 film noir classic directed by Howard Hawks

Bogie and Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD 05/04/2022 Sean Axmaker

Howard Hawks directs the great 1946 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler classic, stirring up the romantic heat in the hardboiled mystery set in the corruption of the Los Angeles underworld.

‘Inception’ – Christopher Nolan’s mind-heist on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, caper, DVD, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this caper film that heists dreams instead of treasure. It is surely the most cerebral action thriller to become a blockbuster.

‘Watchmen’ – Superhero redux on Hulu

!Featured, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Hulu, satire, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD, thriller 04/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Zach Snyder’s 2009 adaptation of the landmark graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons is as faithful as anyone could hope for.

Ryan Gosling stars in the sequel to the sci-fi cult classic, Denis Villeneuve directs

‘Blade Runner 2049’ on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Mystery, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/27/2022 Sean Axmaker

Denis Villeneuve builds on the science fiction movie landmark for a sequel set 30 years later, a futuristic detective story as art movie tone poem starring Ryan Gosling as a next generation Replicant.

Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet in the film adapted from the Dashiell Hammett novel by John Huston.

‘The Maltese Falcon’ – the stuff dreams are made of on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, National Film Registry, remake, SVOD 01/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade in John Huston’s note-perfect adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s iconic novel in this pioneering film noir classic.

Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, and Jai Courtney star in the DC comics movie

‘Suicide Squad’ – Worst. Heroes. Ever. on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, superheroes, SVOD 01/16/2022 Sean Axmaker

Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Joel Kinneman star in the first live-action film featuring the squad of supervillains drafted to play hero in the DCU.

Brad Bird directs the animated feature based on the Ted Hughes book

‘The Iron Giant’ – A boy and his robot buddy – free on Hoopla

!Featured, Animation, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Essential Viewing, family friendly, fantasy, Free, giant monsters, HBO Max, Hoopla, literary adaptation, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/25/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

BThe giddiest moments of The Iron Giant (1999), a delightful throwback to the classic era of hand-drawn animated movies, deliver the most amazing little boy wish fulfillment fantasies. But there’s much more to Brad Bird’s cartoon fable in science fiction clothing and fairy tale trappings is a delightful throwback to the classic era of hand-drawn animated movies.