Mystery – Stream On Demand

‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ – the legendary detective as cheeky action hero on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, historical, Mystery, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/11/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law returns as Holmes and Watson in Guy Ritchie’s sequel to his action-packed revision of the Holmes stories.

Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the 1946 film noir classic directed by Howard Hawks

Bogie and Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD 05/04/2022 Sean Axmaker

Howard Hawks directs the great 1946 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler classic, stirring up the romantic heat in the hardboiled mystery set in the corruption of the Los Angeles underworld.

‘Hot Fuzz’ – British mystery meets Hollywood action on Hulu

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Mystery, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/04/2022 Sean Axmaker

‘Shaun of the Dead’ creators Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg reunite with costar Nick Frost for another hilarious and loving genre send-up.

Last chance: ‘Death on the Nile’ – Peter Ustinov is Hercule Poirot on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, Mystery, Streaming Movies, VOD 04/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

The first screen adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery costars Bette Davis, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, and Mia Farrow.

Robert Downey Jr. is ‘Sherlock Holmes’ in Guy Ritchie’s film on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, HBO Max, historical, literary adaptation, Mystery, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Guy Ritchie brings his slick crime movie style to the old-school detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle in this reinvention of the character as an action hero.

‘The Long Goodbye’ – Robert Altman takes on Raymond Chandler on Paramount+

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Mystery, National Film Registry, Paramount+, Streaming Movies, SVOD 04/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Elliot Gould is Philip Marlowe in this revisionist seventies take on the classic forties film noir private eye movie.

Bradley Cooper finds his potential ‘Limitless’ on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Mystery, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 04/12/2022 Sean Axmaker

An experimental drug that rewires the brain to become more efficient has a nasty side effect in this head-trip of a thriller.

What to stream: ‘Tokyo Vice’ and ‘Tony Hawk’ on HBO Max, ‘All the Old Knives’ on Prime Video, ‘Harry Wild’ on Acorn TV

!Featured, Acorn TV, Amazon Prime Video, Based on a nonfiction book, Crime Cinema, drama, HBO Max, Mystery, spies and espionage, Streaming TV, thriller, What to Stream 04/08/2022 Sean Axmaker

Plus ‘Licorice Pizza’ and ‘Parallel Mothers’ on VOD, ‘Metal Lords’ on Netflix, ‘The Invisible Pilot’ on HBO Max, John Ford classics on Criterion Channel

The original Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy with Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist

The original ‘Dragon Tattoo Trilogy’ on Prime Video and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, AMC+, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Hoopla, International Cinema, Kanopy, miniseries, Mystery, SVOD, thriller 04/03/2022 Sean Axmaker

Noomi Rapace played Lisabeth Salander in the original Swedish screen adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy.

‘The Two Mrs. Carrolls’ – Bogart and Stanwyck on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a play, Classic, DVD, film noir, HBO Max, Mystery, suspense, SVOD 03/29/2022 Sean Axmaker

Classic film icons Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck star together for the first and only time in this film noir with an edge of artistic psychosis.