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‘Duck Season’ – breezy slacker comedy from Mexico on Netflix

!Featured, Comedy, International Cinema, Netflix, young adult 10/13/2022 Sean Axmaker

The spirits of Jim Jarmusch and Kevin Smith hover over Fernando Eimbcke’s easy-going deadpan comedy set over a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Federico Luppi stars in the vampire film from Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Cronos’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, horror, International Cinema, SVOD 10/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

The feature debut of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a magnificent mix of fantasy and horror, an alchemic twist on vampire lore and the costs of eternal life.

Gael García Bernal stars in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's breakthrough drama from Mexico

‘Amores Perros’ – A dog-eat-dog world on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Free, International Cinema, Kanopy, SVOD, thriller 08/30/2021 Sean Axmaker

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s trilogy of stories connected by a crippling car wreck is quite literally a portrait of a violent dog-eat-dog world in the margins of Mexico City.

Luis Buñuel’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Classic Movie, DVD, Have You Seen...?, literary adaptation, SVOD 12/30/2020 Sean Axmaker

Luis Buñuel is best known for his witty, surreal comedies that satirized society, religion, politics, and sexual mores in the 1960s and 1970s, but he had a long career before his breakthrough as an internationally celebrated satirist. Robinson Crusoe (1954), his first English language movie and his first color feature, was produced not as a […]

Axel Jodorowsky and Adan Jodorowsky star in Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult movie

‘Santa Sangre’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal psychodrama on Shudder and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Free, Have You Seen...?, horror, International Cinema, Kanopy, Shudder, Streaming Movies 05/24/2020 Sean Axmaker

Mythic and religious archetypes, primal drives, and carnivalesque imagery combine to create this dreamy tale of revenge.

Criterion Blu-ray: ‘Canoa,’ ‘Multiple Maniacs,’ ‘Blow-up’

Blu-ray, Criterion Collecton, DVD 04/21/2017 Sean Axmaker

Time to play catch up with Criterion releases of the past couple of months. I confess that I had never heard of Canoa: A Shameful Memory (Mexico, 1976) before Criterion announced it. Having now seen, I wonder how that could have been. While not on my radar, this is celebrated as a landmark of Mexican […]

‘Y tu Mama Tambien’ on Criterion Channel and Sundance Now

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, International Cinema, Sundance Now, SVOD 06/23/2015 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Y Tu Mamá También (Mexico, 2001), Alfonso Cuaron’s return to Mexico after his initial sojourn in Hollywood, recharged his ambitions and his creative juices. Ostensibly a coming of age drama by way of a sex comedy, it’s vivid, thoughtful, political and unapologetically raw. Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna star as best friends, a pair […]