Elmore Leonard – Stream On Demand

Glenn Ford and Van Heflin are bound for the ‘3:10 to Yuma’ on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 01/19/2023 Sean Axmaker

This excellent 1957 film from director Delmer Daves is a taut, austere western in the ‘High Noon’ mode but with a film noir sensibility.

Leaving soon: George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez are ‘Out of Sight’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, Essential Viewing, Peacock, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Steven Soderbergh turns Elmore Leonard’s delicious pulp novel into a sexy and stylish crime classic with grown-up romance and movie star power.

Pam Grier, Robert Forster and Samuel L. Jackson star in Quentin Tarantino's adaptation of Elmore Leonard

Last chance: Pam Grier is ‘Jackie Brown’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Crime, Cult Movies, DVD, HBO Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 11/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Quentin Tarantino adapts Elmore Leonard’s ‘Rum Punch’ and gives career-reviving roles to Pam Grier and Robert Forster in the most grown-up movie of his first dozen years.

‘Justified: Complete Series’ – TV’s best pulp storytelling on Hulu

!Featured, Action, based on a short story, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, Cult TV, DVD, Emmy Award, Hulu, Streaming TV, SVOD, western 03/18/2020 Sean Axmaker

Justified: Complete Series (2010-2015) – Timothy Olyphant is U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, a cowboy of a lawman whose brand as cowboy justice gets him demoted from his Miami posting and sent back to Kentucky, the home he thought he’d escaped once and for all. His new boss (Nick Searcy, a sharp leader with a laid-back […]

Walton Goggins and Timothy Olyphant in the FX original series 'Justified'

‘Justified: Season 6’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Streaming TV 02/16/2016 Sean Axmaker

Justified, based on a short story by Elmore Leonard and developed by Graham Yost (in collaboration with Leonard) into a riveting rural crime drama, was one of the best shows on TV for its six-season run on FX, thanks to the way it preserves Leonard’s distinctive pulp fiction sensibility. The sixth and final season is […]

Paul Newman in ‘Hombre’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Classic Movie, Hollywood Classic, Netflix, western 09/03/2015 Sean Axmaker

Hombre (1967), adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard, plays as a ruthless, revisionist take on Stagecoach. Paul Newman is the blue eyed “savage,” a white man raised by the Indians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, who has chosen to go native rather than live in the lies and corruption of […]