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‘Take Shelter’ – Madness and the end of the world on Hulu

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Hulu, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, supernatural, SVOD, thriller 01/25/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jeff Nichols builds an an apocalyptic thriller around a touching family drama of a troubled father (Michael Shannon) determined to protect his family from the impending Armageddon he sees in his visions.

Last chance: ‘The Runaways’ – the story of the original grrrl rockers on Hulu

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Kristen Stewart plays Joan Joan and Dakota Fanning is Cherie Currie in the story of the original all-girl rock band.

Matthew McConaughey is ‘Mud’ on MUBI

!Featured, adventure, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, childhood, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, MUBI, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/24/2022 Sean Axmaker

The third film from director Jeff Nichols is a story of childhood adventure steeped in the rural culture of life on the Mississippi and the mythology of Huckleberry Finn, but this boy’s adventure is also tangled in the world of adults and family bonds.

Michael Shannon and Jaeden Lieberher in 'Midnight Special' from filmmaker Jeff Nichols.

‘Midnight Special’ free on Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, Hoopla, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 08/29/2021 Sean Axmaker

Michael Shannon plays a father devoted to protecting his son, a child with inexplicable powers, from all who want those powers. Jeff Nichols directs this superhero noir thriller.

Steve Buscemi stars in the HBO series of Prohibition and organized crime created by Terence Winter

The complete ‘Boardwalk Empire’ on Amazon Prime and HBO Now

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, based on a true story, gangsters, Streaming TV 05/25/2017 Sean Axmaker

Boardwalk Empire opens with Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the treasurer of Atlantic City and the man who runs the town—and the graft—from behind the pose of public service, toasting the U.S. Congress and the new possibilities that the twenties will bring, thanks to the utterly disastrous “noble experiment” known as Prohibition. Everything changes from that […]

‘Shotgun Stories’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, drama, Streaming Movies 03/08/2017 Sean Axmaker

Arkansas-born director Jeff Nichols has carved out a terrific career making distinctive films with a personal commitment and a personal take on American Southern culture: Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012), Midnight Special (2016), and the Oscar-nominated Loving (2016). It all begins with his debut feature Shotgun Stories (2007) The story revolves around three adult brothers—Son, […]