Jonny Lee Miller – Stream On Demand

‘Elementary: Complete Series’ – Holmes and Watson in 21st century New York on Hulu

!Featured, based on a short story, DVD, Hulu, Mystery, Streaming TV, SVOD 11/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Lui take Holmes and Watson to 21st century New York City in this TV mystery take on the world’s greatest detective.

Helen Mirren is Jane Tennison in 'Prime Suspect'

The Complete ‘Prime Suspect’ with Helen Mirren on Hulu and BritBox

!Featured, Binge-able TV, Blu-ray, BritBox, British TV, DVD, Hulu, Streaming TV, SVOD 10/18/2021 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Helen Mirren got the role of a lifetime playing DCI Jane Tennison, a tough, tenacious, at times brittle woman in a brutally chauvinist British police culture in a series of smart mysteries.

Frances O’Conner is Fanny Price in Patricia Rozema's adaptation of the Jane Austen novel

Patricia Rozema’s ‘Mansfield Park’ on Hulu

!Featured, drama, DVD, Hulu, literary adaptation, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/19/2018 Sean Axmaker

Patricia Rozema’s adaptation of Mansfield Park (1999) combines Jane Austen’s novel with elements of her letters and journals to turn heroine Fanny Price (played by Frances O’Conner) into a woman of self-possession and confidence. The strong-willed, creative girl in an impoverished family is sent to live with snooty rich relatives, where she is more than […]

Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan in Neil Jordan's 'Byzantium'

‘Byzantium’ – Women and men and life immortal on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, horror, Netflix, Streaming Movies 02/14/2018 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Byzantium (2012), Neil Jordan’s take on the vampire genre (from a play by Moira Buffin), is not a traditional horror film. There is blood, of course, and there is sex, but it’s less eros and more survival. Clara (Gemma Arterton) walks the streets (or in this case, the boardwalk of a British coastal town in […]