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‘Long Way North’ – An animated odyssey on Peacock and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, family friendly, historical, International Cinema, Kid Stuff, Peacock, Shout! Factory, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

This gorgeous French-Danish animated feature is a coming of age story, age of adventure odyssey, and finally survival tale in the icy North.

‘The Guilty’ – a rivetting Danish thriller on Hulu

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, International Cinema, Mystery, Sundance Winner, suspense, SVOD, thriller 09/28/2021 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.

‘Vampyr’ – Classic horror as tone poem on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, horror, International Cinema, VOD 10/14/2020 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Vampyr (Denmark, 1932) is a horror movie as tone poem. An early sound film shot with a distinctive and evocative silent film aesthetic, dialogue is sparse and large blocks of text (either intertitles or pages from a book of vampire lore) provide the exposition. And it’s eerily abstract film with vague motivations and ethereal imagery […]

Lars von Trier directs Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in his dark psychological thriller

Lars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’ on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, fantasy, suspense 01/17/2018 Sean Axmaker

I’m not sure how I manage to keep my simultaneous fascination with /repulsion for Lars von Trier in balance, but it’s there with a vengeance in Antichrist (Denmark, 2009), another provocation that is at once beautiful and perverse, personal and cynical, and filled with his sour vision of the emotional small-mindedness (small-heartedness?) of the human […]

Mads Mikkelsen in Thomas Vinterberg's 'The Hunt,' a searing drama of hysteria in a small community.

‘The Hunt’ with Mads Mikkelsen on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Hulu, International Cinema 06/11/2017 Sean Axmaker

Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish drama The Hunt (2012) is his best film since The Celebration and, no surprise, it mines similar themes and volatile emotions that are churned up the surface. Mads Mikkelsen stars as a dedicated teaching assistant at a pre-school who, through a misunderstanding, is put under investigation for child abuse, a smoldering suspicion […]