CRUMB (1995) Stream on the Criterion Channel. Before directing films like “Ghost World” (2001) and “Bad Santa” (2003), Terry Zwigoff made two documentaries. The first, “Louie Bluie” (1985), was about Howard (Louie Bluie) Armstrong, a country blues musician, visual artist and gifted storyteller. Zwigoff continued his investigation of eccentric American creators with this portrait of the underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. The documentary surveys Crumb’s career and highlights his most notable creations, including the comic “Keep on Truckin’” and the character Fritz the Cat. But it also includes material about his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, herself an important cartoonist, and his troubled brothers Maxon and Charles. All three, plus Crumb’s two children, contributed to the life and work of one of the country’s greatest and most debated pop artists.

MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS Stream on Acorn TV. This feature film is an offshoot of the Australian TV series based on Kerry Greenwood’s novels about a female private detective working after World War I. Essie Davis (“The Babadook,” “Game of Thrones”) returns as Phryne Fisher in the first new installment since 2015, when the third and final season aired in Australia. Fisher travels to British-controlled territory in the Middle East to solve a mystery that revolves around “priceless emeralds” and “ancient curses.” Along the way she saves a young Bedouin girl (Izabella Yena), whose tribe’s history might be connected with the hexed gems.