Tim Robbins is a detective in a sterile, emotionally-stifling future in Michael Winterbottom’s overlooked contribution to smart science fiction cinema.
Category: Mystery
‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ – Hammer’s Gothic Holmes on Amazon Prime
Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective in this 1959 mix mystery and supernatural horror from Hammer Studios and its top director, Terence Fisher.
‘Castle: Complete Series’ on Hulu
Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic star in the breezy, self-aware show that stirs humor, romantic heat, and playful mysteries in the TV crime procedural.
‘The Guilty’ – a rivetting Danish thriller on Hulu
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.
‘Klute’ with Jane Fonda on Criterion Channel
The film is named for Donald Sutherland’s character but Alan Pakula’s stark, alienated neo-noir, is remembered for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance.
Peter Falk is ‘Columbo’ on Peacock
“Actually, there is one thing…” Peter Falk created TV’s most unusual–and most entertaining–TV detective in this unconventional, beloved series that flipped the formula.
What to stream: ‘Only Murders’ with Steve Martin on Hulu, ‘Cinderella’ with Camilla Cabello on Amazon, ‘Worth’ on Netflix
Plus ‘Undine’ on Hulu, ‘Afterlife of the Party’ on Netflix, Billie Eilish on Disney+, ‘9/11’ documentaries on Netflix, Hulu, and Apple TV+, and more…
‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’ on Amazon Prime
Bill Wilder’s sly, bittersweet, autumnal film approaches the Holmes legacy with both a sense of humor and a sense of respect.
‘To Catch a Thief’ with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on Amazon Prime and Paramount+
Alfred Hitchcock’s frothiest entertainment delivers glamor and romance with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on the French Riviera where a cat burglar is stealing the jewels of rich tourists.
‘Brick’- High school noir on Criterion Channel
Brick (2005), the debut feature from Star Trek: The Last Jedi filmmaker Rian Johnson, puts the collected works of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett in a blender with a jigger of teenage melodrama and pours it into a high school mold. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays things so close to his chest that he’s almost unreadable as […]