Julia Sirmons

Please excuse new parent—sleepiness. First watch for me; I liked it a lot more than I thought I would!

Someone wanted to make a showbiz satire starring Liz Taylor and Rock Hudson, and they tacked Miss Marple onto it. Still pretty fun.

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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

We have a winner for best sign.

It's incredible that George Clooney and Buddy Hackett were in the same episode.

I saw it in VistaVision at the Regal as well, and you describe the experience so perfectly. In the car chase scene where they're going up and down all those hills, I felt like I was jumping out of my body.

It’s no Knives Out I guess.

She's basically playing the Bond in that movie and that's why it's the best one.

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in 'Casablanca'

The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa

It's a more of a rocket movie with a side dish of coal mining. But Chris Cooper's character is very, very into coal mining.

October Sky is definitely the second-best movie about coal mining starring Chris Cooper.

Can I make this episode about a nice but somewhat forgettable movie a discussion about MATEWAN? I sure tried!

Yes, the frailty is the key. I just reread The Mirror Crack’d, and there’s a lot of really moving stuff about her fears of aging. For me, the Rutherford and Lansbury portrayals have their charms even if they’re not that accurate. Love a spinster absolutely smoking men who underestimate her.

She's so good. IIRC, she was in one of the Margaret Rutherford Marples when she was young, and Rutherford told her that she'd be a great Marple one day.

*Love* that one. Don't know if you've seen the Joan Hickson Marples, but I thought that one was a particularly good adaptation.

Every three months or so, The Guardian has a story about a cheese heist.

Hit me up with all your Christie film takes.

RIP Patricia Routledge. Hard to think of a more fully realized, deftly executed comic character than Hyacinth Bou-quet. Or one that brought me more joy as a child. Very jealous of my parents, who saw her as Lady Bracknell. Also, Snoop Dogg is a big fan of Keeping Up Appearances.

I need you all to know that a "small beer" is what Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple treats herself to after a hard day of sleuthing, and I vehemently insist that is what PTA is referencing.

VistaVision, baby

My sense is that Branagh is riffing off the Ustinov Poirot and he just can’t stop himself.

I’ve been meaning to read that one for a while…

And Nixon was also a notorious anti-Semite!

just A+ hangdoggery

Also the best on-screen portrayer of Richard Nixon, as discussed on @1999thepodcast.bsky.social

Twenty Years of Capote What does it mean, and what does it cost, to write about crime? In Cold Blood, Truman Capote’s true crime masterpiece, was a massive hit; it remains one of the finest examples of the genre. The aut…

Happy Anniversary to CAPOTE, a film that’s really grown on me. crimereads.com/twenty-years...

Doing it Wednesday night! Will be really interested to hear what you think the differences are.

New studio decor.

The king has come home.