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What to stream: ‘Star Wars’ prequel series ‘Andor’ on Disney+, ‘Reboot’ on Hulu, ‘Lou’ and ‘Athena’ on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Comedy, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Streaming TV, What to Stream 09/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Plus ‘On the Come Up’ on Paramount+, ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ and ‘Dahmer’ on Netflix, documentaries ‘Sidney’ on Apple TV+ and ‘Escape from Kabul’ on HBO Max, and where to stream the first shows of the Fall Network TV season

What to stream: B.J. Novak’s ‘Vengeance’ on Peacock, ‘The Last Duel’ on Hulu, ‘The Outfit’ and ‘Dog’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Comedy, HBO Max, historical, Hulu, inspired by a true story, Peacock, Streaming Movies, Watch This!, What to Stream 09/16/2022 Sean Axmaker

Plus horror remake ‘Goodnight Mommy’ on Prime Video ‘Do Revenge’ and ‘Driftiing Home’ on Netflix, ‘Monarch’ begins on Hulu, ‘The Serpent Queen’ on Starz, ‘Neptune Frost’ on Criterion Channel.

What to stream: ‘The Gray Man’ on Netflix, ‘Anything’s Possible’ on Prime Video, ‘Happening’ on AMC+, ‘The Last Movie Stars’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, African-American cinema, African-American filmmakers, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Romance, Streaming Movies, thriller, What to Stream 07/22/2022 Sean Axmaker

Plus ‘Aftershock’ on Hulu, ‘Prizefighter’ on Prime Video, ‘Don McLean’s American Pie’ on Paramount+, season four of ‘Virgin RIver.’ ‘The Forgiven’ on VOD

‘Woman on the Run’ with Ann Sheridan on Paramount+ and more

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Cohen Media Channel, DVD, Fandor, Flicker Alley, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, Hoopla, Kanopy, Mystery, Paramount+, SVOD, thriller 11/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Sheridan developed and produced this independent film noir, which was shot on location in San Francisco and makes great use of the city.

‘Lore’ – navigating the collapse of Nazi Germany on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, childhood, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Fandor, Free, historical, Hoopla, International Cinema, Kanopy, MUBI, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 08/03/2021 Sean Axmaker

Before she was tapped to helm Black Widow for Marvel, Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland directed Lore (Germany, 2012). A coproduction of Germany and Australia with a German cast, setting, and language, Lore takes the viewer on a harrowing odyssey through Germany after the fall of Hitler. The privileged life of fresh-faced German teenager Lore (Saskia […]

Akim Tamiroff and Orson Welles in the 1948 'Black Magic.'

Orson Welles in ‘Black Magic’ on Kanopy

!Featured, Classic Movie, DVD, Kanopy, SVOD 06/05/2019 Sean Axmaker

Black Magic (1949), a gothic drama starring Orson Welles, is one of the best of Welles’ films of the era that he didn’t direct. The mid-budget costume drama from independent producer Edward Small, an adaptation of Alexander Dumas’ novel “Joseph Balsamo,” stars Welles as the 18th century hypnotist and charlatan Cagliostro, a gypsy showman who […]

Henry Silva and Woody Strode in Fernando di Leo's gangster classic

‘The Italian Connection’ – Mob schemes on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, gangsters, Spaghetti Cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/12/2019 Sean Axmaker

The Italian Connection (Italy, 1972), from Italy’s king of crime cinema Fernando di Leo, stars Mario Adani (the top dog thug of the Americano’s gang in di Leo’s earlier Caliber 9) as Luca, a remarkably affable and well-liked pimp whose popularity on the street makes the Milan boss nervous. So he frames Luca for a […]

Fernando Di Leo’s ‘Milieu Trilogy’ on Amazon Prime Video and Fandor

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Fandor, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema, SVOD 01/02/2018 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo was, in the estimation of genre-hound Quentin Tarantino, “the master” of the Italian crime movie, or the “poliziotteschi.” A violent action genre that picked up the escalating violence of American films like Dirty Harry and The French Connection, films where blood spattered and cops got their hands dirty, it was never as […]

The silent horror of ‘Behind the Door’ on Fandor

Blu-ray, DVD, Fandor, silent film, SVOD 04/20/2017 Sean Axmaker

Behind the Door (1919) (Flicker Alley, Blu-ray+DVD) was for decades a film known by reputation only. A good film, yes, but more than that a notorious one, for what lay behind the door was… No spoilers because the film, once known to exist only in incomplete form, has been reconstructed and restored by the San […]

The delirious cinematic dreamscape world of Guy Maddin's 'The Forbidden Room'

‘The Forbidden Room’ on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Fandor

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Cult Movies, Fandor, Netflix, silent film, Streaming Movies 03/15/2016 Sean Axmaker

Canadian iconoclast Guy Maddin has been making strange, surreal films that evoke the images and storytelling traditions of silent movies for decades. The Forbidden Room (2015), which he co-directed with his former student Evan Johnson, is like a compendium of his obsessions and cinematic fetishes. It opens on a mock-instructional film on “How to Take […]