Sundance Winner – Stream On Demand

‘Whiplash’ – music as warfare on Netflix and Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award, American Independent Cinema, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Hulu, music, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 11/11/2023 Sean Axmaker

J.K. Simmons swept the awards season for his performance as a ferocious music teacher in Damien Chazelle’s drama set in the world of college stage band competitions.

‘Frozen River’ – life on the margins on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 11/09/2023 Sean Axmaker

Courtney Hunt directs Melissa Leo to an Oscar-nominated performance in this powerful drama of two women tossed together by necessity.

Jennifer Lawrence stars in the Oscar nominated film by Debra Granik

Jennifer Lawrence arrives in ‘Winter’s Bone’ on Max and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Kanopy, Max, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, suspense, SVOD 11/03/2023 Sean Axmaker

John Hawkes costars in this award-winning coming-of-age survival drama set in the crime and poverty of the Ozark Mountains.

‘American Splendor’ – Paul Giamatti as an underground curmudgeon on Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a comic book, based on a true story, Cannes winner, Comedy, DVD, Max, movies about art, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 09/22/2023 Sean Axmaker

Paul Giamatti stars as Harvey Pekar, the real life undergroud comic book legend, in this mix of drama and documentary adapted from his autobiographical comics.

‘The Squid and the Whale’ – Noah Baumbach’s delicate childhood on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, American Independent Cinema, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, inspired by a true story, Netflix, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 07/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jeff Daniels. Laura Linnery, and Jesse Eisenberg star in what may be the funniest film about divorce and its reverberations through the family ever made.

Justin Simien's satire Dear White People on Amazon Prime

‘Dear White People’ – a sharp social satire on Peacock

!Featured, African-American cinema, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Peacock, satire, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD, young adult 05/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

The feature debut of director / writer Justin Simien, is a sharp, smart, ambitious satire of race, racism, privilege, prejudice, and power at an Ivy League college.

‘To Sleep with Anger’ – a devilish Danny Glover on MUBI

!Featured, African-American cinema, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, MUBI, National Film Registry, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 03/09/2023 Sean Axmaker

Charles Burnett explores the collision of rural Southern Black culture and folk superstitions with middle class African-American urban life in this landmark American indie drama.

‘The Killing Floor’ – integrating the union on Criterion Channel and MUBI

!Featured, African-American cinema, American Independent Cinema, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, historical, Hoopla, MUBI, Politics, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 02/28/2023 Sean Axmaker

Bill Gunn directs this independent feature, shot on location in Chicago, dramatizing the struggle to unionize the meat packers during World War I.

Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau star in the film by Donna Deitch

‘Desert Hearts’ – an American indie landmark on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Romance, Streaming Movies, Sundance Winner, SVOD 02/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

Donna Deitch directs this story of women in love, set in 1959 and starring Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau, which won an award at Sundance.

‘The Guilty’ – a rivetting Danish thriller on Prime Video and Hulu

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, International Cinema, Mystery, Sundance Winner, suspense, SVOD, thriller 01/30/2023 Sean Axmaker

Actor Jakob Cedergren carries this drama about an Emergency Services operator who receives a call from a woman in trouble and has to solve a mystery with only a phone.