Tag: Criterion Channel

Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld in Christian Petzold's 'Phoenix'

‘Phoenix’ – from the ashes on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Cinema, literary adaptation, SVOD 12/13/201704/09/2019 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Just as the title suggests, Phoenix (Germany, 2014) is about rising from the ashes, but filmmaker Christian Petzold is more interested than the smudged moral world in the ashes of Germany after World War II than in the promise of the rise. Nina Hoss, one of the great actresses of our time and star of […]

Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp in the second of Netflix's Stranger Things

What to stream: ‘Stranger Things 2’ on Netflix, ‘Too Funny to Fail’ on Hulu, ‘Fearless’ on Amazon and more

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel, family friendly, Halloween, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Showtime Anytime, Streaming TV, SVOD, What to Stream 10/27/201710/26/2017 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … The boys are back for Halloween in the second season of Stranger Things, the wonderfully weird Netflix original spooky series about a group of school friends who face strange doings in […]

Thomas Jane stars in the Stephen King adaptation

What to stream: Stephen King’s ‘1922’ on Netflix, ‘Red Oaks’ ends on Amazon, Hulu adds ‘Futurama,’ and more

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Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … 1922 (2017, not rated), starring Thomas Jane as a Nebraska farmer consumed with guilt after committing murder, is the second Netflix original film this month based on the work of Stephen […]

Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller in the film by Noah Baumbach

What to stream: ‘Meyerowitz’ and ‘MINDHUNTER’ on Netflix, ‘Lore’ on Amazon, Sarah Silverman’s ‘America’ on Hulu

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, BritBox, Criterion Channel, drama, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Showtime Anytime, Streaming Movies, What to Stream 10/13/201710/13/2017 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017, not rated), starring Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller as the estranged sons of sculptor and retired art professor Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvell […]

What to stream: ‘Marsha P. Johnson’ on Netflix, Godzilla lives on Hulu, ‘Hot’ comedy on Amazon

!Featured, Documentary, Netflix, What to Stream 10/06/201707/18/2022 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017, not rated), a documentary directed by David France, investigates the unsolved murder of civil rights activist and drag queen Marsha P. Johnson, […]

What to stream: The ‘Souls’ of Fonda and Redford and Stephen King’s ‘Gerald’s Game’ on Netflix

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Streaming Movies, SVOD, What to Stream 09/29/2017 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Jane Fonda and Robert Redford reunite in Our Souls at Night (2017), which comes to Netflix direct from the Venice Film Festival. Fonda is widow Addie and Redford widower Louis, lonely souls and […]

What to stream: ‘Gaga’ unplugged on Netflix and ‘Will & Grace’ on Hulu, plus movies and more

!Featured, Acorn TV, Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel, Documentary, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Showtime Anytime, SVOD, What to Stream 09/22/201709/22/2017 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … The documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two (2016, not rated) goes behind the scenes for a candid look at Lady Gaga’s life during an eight-month period where she records a new album, […]

Angelina Jolie directs the story of human rights activist Loung Ung

What to stream: Angelina Jolie’s ‘First They Killed My Father,’ a ‘Lost City’ on Amazon, ‘Nocturama’ on Netflix, ‘It Comes’ to VOD

!Featured, Acorn TV, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, Criterion Channel, Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, Streaming Movies, SVOD, What to Stream 09/15/201709/15/2017 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … First They Killed My Father (2017, not rated), from filmmaker Angelina Jolie, dramatizes the story of human rights activist Loung Ung as young girl surviving the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. Jolie wrote […]

Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish star in Jan Campion's drama about John Keats and Fanny Brawne

What to stream: ‘Bright Star’ on Netflix, ‘Images’ and ‘Sophie’s Choice’ on Amazon

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel, drama, Hulu, Netflix, Showtime Anytime, Streaming Movies, SVOD, What to Stream 09/08/201709/08/2017 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Lose yourself in the romantic passions of Jane Campion’s Bright Star (2009, PG), the love story of impoverished poet John Keats (a frighteningly fragile Ben Whishaw) and the self-assured and fashionable […]