Denmark – Stream On Demand

‘The Guilty’ – a rivetting Danish thriller on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, 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.

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

‘The Hunt’ with Mads Mikkelsen on Prime Video and MUBI

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Hulu, International Cinema 11/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish drama observes how suspicion is fanned into a conflagration that turns a peaceful community into a self-righteous mob.

‘The Kingdom’ – Lars Von Trier’s haunted hospital on MUBI

!Featured, drama, DVD, horror, International TV, Limited Series, MUBI, Streaming TV, supernatural, SVOD 11/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

This cult Danish mini-series, a medical soap opera turned horror tale, plays like a nightmarish cross between ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Chicago Hope’ as directed by David Cronenberg.

‘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 10/08/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Carl Th. Dreyer’s dreamy 1932 classic is eerie and unsettling, an early sound film with ethereal imagery shot with a distinctive and evocative silent film aesthetic.

‘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.

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 […]