2010 – Stream On Demand

Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in the Oscar-winning film by Tom Hooper

Oscar-winner ‘The King’s Speech’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, historical, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/26/2023 Sean Axmaker

Colin Firth is the man who would be King George VI and Geoffrey Rush is the eccentric speech therapist who helps the royal overcome his stammer in this based-on-a-true-story drama that won Academy Awards, including best picture, best director Tom Hooper, and best actor Firth.

Michelangelo Frammartino's 'Le Quattro Volte' is a meditation on the mysterious cycles of life

‘Le Quattro Volte’ – the mysteries of life on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion Channel, Documentary, DVD, Free, International Cinema, Kanopy, SVOD 01/03/2023 Sean Axmaker

This wordless film is like a tone poem that contemplates the odyssey of the soul through the cycles of existence, a mix of natural, spiritual, magical, and metaphysical brought together through cinema.

‘The Expendables’ – the senior squad on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Action, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/02/2023 Sean Axmaker

Sylvester Stallone gathers a team of aging action stars (Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, and more) for this thriller of mercenaries on a mission.

Jalmari Helander directs this satirical holiday adventure thriller from Norway

‘Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale’ – Wild Santas on Hulu and Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, Christmas, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Free, Hoopla, Hulu, International Cinema, Kanopy, Peacock, SVOD, thriller 12/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

This deadpan black comedy from the land of the original Father Christmas reimagines Santa Claus in a surreal action thriller.

Sylvain Chomet's animated film of a Jacques Tati script

‘The Illusionist’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Animation, Blu-ray, Comedy, Criterion Channel, DVD, family friendly, International Cinema, movies about theater, SVOD 11/30/2022 Sean Axmaker

An unproduced screenplay by French comedy master Jacques Tati is transformed into a tender tale of a French magician and a Scottish girl in the theater-folk society of London.

Russell Crowe is ‘Robin Hood’ on Netflix and Hulu

!Featured, Action, adventure, Blu-ray, DVD, historical, Hulu, Netflix, Streaming Movies 11/10/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ridley Scott directs this muscular action adventure that reimagines the classic English tale with a new origin story, costarring Cate Blanchett and Oscar Isaac.

Ti West’s ‘The House of the Devil’ on Peacock, Criterion Channel, and Shudder

!Featured, AMC+, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, Peacock, Shudder, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/29/2022 Sean Axmaker

Ti West was a young horror director with old-school sensibilities when he made his name with this throwback to the style of John Carpenter in the early eighties.

Chloë Grace Moretz stars in the American remake of the Swedish horror film, directed by Kodi Smit-McPhee

‘Let Me In’ – vampire adolescence on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, childhood, DVD, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, high school, horror, Hulu, remake, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Chloë Grace Moretz is a vampire who has been 12 years old “for a long time” in this rich American remake of a Swedish horror movie.

‘Two in the Wave’ – Godard/Truffaut free on Kanopy

!Featured, art and artists, Documentary, DVD, film history, Free, International Cinema, Kanopy, SVOD 09/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

Emmanuel Laurent’s unconventional documentary is centered on the friendship between Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, which in many ways became the foundation of the Nouvelle Vague.

Jeff Bridges has a ‘Crazy Heart’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, music, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/01/2022 Sean Axmaker

Bridges won an Oscar playing a country music figure on the downhill slide of a career in the drama from filmmaker Scott Cooper.