In the fall of 1984, CBS found a surprise hit with a show about a retired widow turned best-selling mystery novelist and amateur sleuth. On September 30, 1984, Angela Lansbury’s Jessica Fletcher began her reign as TV’s premier amateur detective, making “Murder, She Wrote” a top 10 show for much of its 12-year run. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link, the minds behind the successful “Columbo” series, and Peter S. Fischer, “Murder She Wrote” was both a throwback to popular whodunnit series of the past and a groundbreaking series that ushered in a new era of representation for middle-aged women on TV.
After Jean Stapleton declined the role, Lansbury signed on to play J.B. Fletcher, over a decade after playing Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980). A full-time TV series was new territory for the 58-year-old, a four-time Tony winner (at the time) and thrice-time Oscar-nominated veteran actress.
After Jean Stapleton declined the role, Lansbury signed on to play J.B. Fletcher, over a decade after playing Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980). A full-time TV series was new territory for the 58-year-old, a four-time Tony winner (at the time) and thrice-time Oscar-nominated veteran actress.
- 9/30/2024
- by Susan Pennington
- Gold Derby
In the fall of 1984, CBS found a surprise hit with a show about a retired widow turned best-selling mystery novelist and amateur sleuth. On September 30, 1984, Angela Lansbury’s Jessica Fletcher began her reign as TV’s premier amateur detective, making “Murder, She Wrote” a top 10 show for much of its 12-year run. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link, the minds behind the successful “Columbo” series, and Peter S. Fischer, “Murder She Wrote” was both a throwback to popular whodunnit series of the past and a groundbreaking series that ushered in a new era of representation for middle-aged women on TV.
After Jean Stapleton declined the role, Lansbury signed on to play J.B. Fletcher, over a decade after playing Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980). A full-time TV series was new territory for the 58-year-old, a four-time Tony winner (at the time) and thrice-time Oscar-nominated veteran actress.
After Jean Stapleton declined the role, Lansbury signed on to play J.B. Fletcher, over a decade after playing Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980). A full-time TV series was new territory for the 58-year-old, a four-time Tony winner (at the time) and thrice-time Oscar-nominated veteran actress.
- 9/30/2024
- by Susan Pennington, Chris Beachum and Misty Holland
- Gold Derby
“RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” continued its 9th season on Friday, June 21 with the seventh episode featuring returning queens from seasons past. Making their way back into the Werk Room for the second time are Angeria Paris VanMichaels (season 14), Gottmik (season 13), Jorgeous (season 14), Nina West (season 11), and Plastique Tiara (season 11). Three queens are returning for the third time: Roxxxy Andrews (season 5 and All Stars 2), Shannel (season 1 and All Stars 1), and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo (seasons 10 and 11).
In addition to their chance at the coveted crown, this season the queens are competing to have a $200,000 contribution, provided by The Palette Fund, to a charity of their choice. Series judges RuPaul Charles and Michelle Visage will be joined on the dais by friends and series regulars Carson Kressley, Ts Madison, and Ross Mathews as well as a rotating cast of guest judges to help determine episodic winners and their choice for “next drag superstar.
In addition to their chance at the coveted crown, this season the queens are competing to have a $200,000 contribution, provided by The Palette Fund, to a charity of their choice. Series judges RuPaul Charles and Michelle Visage will be joined on the dais by friends and series regulars Carson Kressley, Ts Madison, and Ross Mathews as well as a rotating cast of guest judges to help determine episodic winners and their choice for “next drag superstar.
- 6/21/2024
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
Amateur sleuth shows used to be popular in the pre-csi era of television.
These series showcased detectives who were not police officers, were often quirky, and could best the cops at solving murders -- if they could get them to listen.
You're right if you think that sounds exactly like CBS' Elsbeth. Elsbeth has more in common with amateur sleuth series of the past than with the show it spun off from, The Good Wife.
Elsbeth is a modern take on classic shows like Columbo, Murder She Wrote, and Diagnosis Murder. Most shows it owes a debt to are no longer on television, but streaming services have given them new life.
Elsbeth Heralds the Return of Amateur Sleuth Shows
Amateur sleuth shows are part of the cozy mystery genre.
Nowadays, they've fallen out of favor -- these mysteries mostly air as movies on the Hallmark channel.
There was a time...
These series showcased detectives who were not police officers, were often quirky, and could best the cops at solving murders -- if they could get them to listen.
You're right if you think that sounds exactly like CBS' Elsbeth. Elsbeth has more in common with amateur sleuth series of the past than with the show it spun off from, The Good Wife.
Elsbeth is a modern take on classic shows like Columbo, Murder She Wrote, and Diagnosis Murder. Most shows it owes a debt to are no longer on television, but streaming services have given them new life.
Elsbeth Heralds the Return of Amateur Sleuth Shows
Amateur sleuth shows are part of the cozy mystery genre.
Nowadays, they've fallen out of favor -- these mysteries mostly air as movies on the Hallmark channel.
There was a time...
- 5/20/2024
- by Jack Ori
- TVfanatic
From left: Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Keystone/Getty Images), Angela Lansbury in The Mirror Crack’d (YouTube screenshot), Albert Finney in Murder On The Orient Express (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images), Denzel Washington in Devil In A Blue Dress (D Stevens/Tri Star/Kobal/Shutterstock), Daniel Craig...
- 9/17/2023
- by Jorge Molina
- avclub.com
From left to right: A Haunting In Venice (Image: 20th Century Studios); The Maltese Falcon (Screenshot: Warner Bros./YouTube); Glass Onion (Image: Netflix) Graphic: The A.V. Club There’s a reason why the murder mystery has endured as one of the big screen’s most tried and true film genres for more than a century.
- 9/14/2023
- by Scott Huver
- avclub.com
From left to right: A Haunting In Venice (Image: 20th Century Studios); The Maltese Falcon (Screenshot: Warner Bros./YouTube); Glass Onion (Image: Netflix)Graphic: The A.V. Club
There’s a reason why the murder mystery has endured as one of the big screen’s most tried and true film genres for more than a century.
There’s a reason why the murder mystery has endured as one of the big screen’s most tried and true film genres for more than a century.
- 9/14/2023
- by Scott Huver
- avclub.com
If you thought you'd seen the last of Hercule Poirot, think again. Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective, who has appeared in countless of her mystery novels, returns in "A Haunting in Venice," which is set to premiere on Sept. 15. The movie is based on Christie's 1969 novel "Hallowe'en Party," which revolves around Poirot embroiled in another murder mystery. The original story takes place at a Halloween party, while the upcoming adaptation sees the detective at a séance.
"A Haunting in Venice" coproducer and director Kenneth Branagh is set to reprise his role as Poirot for the third time in the upcoming film. He first made his debut as Poirot in the star-studded 2017 film "Murder on the Orient Express." Five years later, he returned as Poirot in the 2022 movie "Death on the Nile," which also had a stacked cast. The third film in the Branagh trilogy will also feature huge stars...
"A Haunting in Venice" coproducer and director Kenneth Branagh is set to reprise his role as Poirot for the third time in the upcoming film. He first made his debut as Poirot in the star-studded 2017 film "Murder on the Orient Express." Five years later, he returned as Poirot in the 2022 movie "Death on the Nile," which also had a stacked cast. The third film in the Branagh trilogy will also feature huge stars...
- 9/6/2023
- by Michele Mendez
- Popsugar.com
Exclusive: A new stage play adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is being developed with an eye toward the West End and Broadway. The Tony- and Olivier Award-winning Rob Ashford is set to direct.
The announcement was made today by producer Antonio Marion. Current plans are for the play to be developed in London prior to West End and Broadway stagings.
Written by British writing team Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, the new Sherlock Holmes play is described as an original tale offering a “deeply theatrical exploration of the mind of the famous detective,” while remaining faithful to the world created by Conan Doyle. Akram Khan will serve as choreographer/movement director.
Staged as “a mystery within a mystery,” the new play is described by producers as involving a case presented to Holmes that forces him to confront his own murky past: “But is the unravelling of...
The announcement was made today by producer Antonio Marion. Current plans are for the play to be developed in London prior to West End and Broadway stagings.
Written by British writing team Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, the new Sherlock Holmes play is described as an original tale offering a “deeply theatrical exploration of the mind of the famous detective,” while remaining faithful to the world created by Conan Doyle. Akram Khan will serve as choreographer/movement director.
Staged as “a mystery within a mystery,” the new play is described by producers as involving a case presented to Holmes that forces him to confront his own murky past: “But is the unravelling of...
- 4/12/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Agatha Christie was born in 1890, and the heyday of movie adaptations of her novels goes quite a ways back. The whole structure and flavor of this sort of delectably engineered whodunit, with its cast of suspects drawn in deliberate broad strokes and its know-it-all detective whose powers of deduction descend directly from Sherlock Holmes, is rooted in the cozy symmetry of the studio-system era. The last big-screen Christie adaptation that could be considered an all-out success, critically and commercially, was probably Sidney Lumet’s 1974 “Murder on the Orient Express,” a lavishly corny and irresistible amusement in which Albert Finney played the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as a fussbudget egomaniac with pursed lips and hair that resembled an oil slick (he was like Inspector Clouseau with a brain transplant).
“Murder on the Orient Express” was actually an event movie. But the Christie adaptations that followed — “Death on the Nile” (1978), “The Mirror Crack’d...
“Murder on the Orient Express” was actually an event movie. But the Christie adaptations that followed — “Death on the Nile” (1978), “The Mirror Crack’d...
- 2/7/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Not only is the 25th James Bond film “No Time to Die” the last 007 adventure thriller starring Daniel Craig, it’s also the first one directed by an American: Cary Joji Fukunaga. The 44-year-old filmmaker won the Sundance dramatic directing award in 2009 for “Sin Nombre,” was the first Asian-American director to win an Emmy for directing in 2014 for “True Detective” and earned a Peabody in 2015 for “Beasts of No Nation.”
He joins other cutting-edge filmmakers to direct Craig as Bond including Oscar-winning English director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) who helmed 2012’s “Skyfall” and 2015’s “Spectre” and indie German filmmaker Marc Forster (2008’s “Quantum of Solace”), who had directed Halle Berry to an Oscar for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball” and Johnny Depp to a nomination for 2004’s “Finding Neverland.”
These three are a far cry from the early Bond directors who were British and had worked their way up the ranks...
He joins other cutting-edge filmmakers to direct Craig as Bond including Oscar-winning English director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) who helmed 2012’s “Skyfall” and 2015’s “Spectre” and indie German filmmaker Marc Forster (2008’s “Quantum of Solace”), who had directed Halle Berry to an Oscar for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball” and Johnny Depp to a nomination for 2004’s “Finding Neverland.”
These three are a far cry from the early Bond directors who were British and had worked their way up the ranks...
- 10/8/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Elizabeth Taylor, who would have turned 89 on Feb. 27, lived multiple lives. She was a movie mega-star, a tabloid mega-celebrity (which are not always the same thing), an innovator in creating herself as a brand — and a tireless and effective philanthropist and activist.
She was adored, admired, denounced, scandal-ridden and unpredictable, and the public couldn’t get enough of her.
On screen, she was at her most breathtakingly beautiful in such 1950s and ‘60s films as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cleopatra” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” And in the 1966 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” at age 34, she frumped herself up and gave a great performance, winning the second of two Oscars (after the 1960 “Butterfield 8”).
She also excelled in a wide array of films, like “Giant” (1956), “Raintree Country” (1958), “X, Y and Z” (1972), “Ash Wednesday”, and “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980), her last leading role on the big screen.
She was adored, admired, denounced, scandal-ridden and unpredictable, and the public couldn’t get enough of her.
On screen, she was at her most breathtakingly beautiful in such 1950s and ‘60s films as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Suddenly, Last Summer,” “Cleopatra” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” And in the 1966 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” at age 34, she frumped herself up and gave a great performance, winning the second of two Oscars (after the 1960 “Butterfield 8”).
She also excelled in a wide array of films, like “Giant” (1956), “Raintree Country” (1958), “X, Y and Z” (1972), “Ash Wednesday”, and “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980), her last leading role on the big screen.
- 2/27/2021
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
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“If you were a man, I’d divorce you!”
Myra Gardener (Sylvia Miles) insults her stage producer husband, Odell (James Mason), with this line in the 1982 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun during a spat while vacationing on a fictional Italian island in the Adriatic Sea. They are attempting to entice Broadway legend Arlena Stuart Marshall (Diana Rigg) to appear in their next musical, despite her reputation as a spoiled diva. Evil Under the Sun has recently been released on Blu-ray by the good people at Kino Lorber, who have also seen fit to issue new editions of The Mirror Crack’d and Death on the Nile.
The screenplay, by Anthony Shaffer, is loaded with witty and sometimes randy putdowns that help breathe a bit of life into this rather formulaic whodunit from director Guy Hamilton. When Arlena...
By Tim McGlynn
“If you were a man, I’d divorce you!”
Myra Gardener (Sylvia Miles) insults her stage producer husband, Odell (James Mason), with this line in the 1982 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun during a spat while vacationing on a fictional Italian island in the Adriatic Sea. They are attempting to entice Broadway legend Arlena Stuart Marshall (Diana Rigg) to appear in their next musical, despite her reputation as a spoiled diva. Evil Under the Sun has recently been released on Blu-ray by the good people at Kino Lorber, who have also seen fit to issue new editions of The Mirror Crack’d and Death on the Nile.
The screenplay, by Anthony Shaffer, is loaded with witty and sometimes randy putdowns that help breathe a bit of life into this rather formulaic whodunit from director Guy Hamilton. When Arlena...
- 2/10/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
We have a relatively quiet week of home media releases ahead of us this week, but the titles that are coming out are a rad bunch of films nonetheless. Scream Factory is doing the Dark Lord’s work with both the Collector’s Edition of April Fool’s Day and the HD release of Frankenstein: The True Story. If you missed it in theaters back in January, Nicolas Pesce’s The Grudge (2020) is headed to various platforms this Tuesday, and Arrow Video has put together a stellar Special Edition release of Philip Ridley’s The Passion of Darkly Noon as well.
Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for March 24th include Endless Night, Cabal, Hunter’s Moon, The Zombinator, and The Wizard: Collector’s Edition.
April Fool’s Day: Collector’s Edition
Good friends...with some time to kill. When Muffy St. John invited her college friends up to her parents' secluded...
Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for March 24th include Endless Night, Cabal, Hunter’s Moon, The Zombinator, and The Wizard: Collector’s Edition.
April Fool’s Day: Collector’s Edition
Good friends...with some time to kill. When Muffy St. John invited her college friends up to her parents' secluded...
- 3/23/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Perhaps best known as the writer & director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, filmmaker Rian Johnson got his big start in 2005 with the neo-noir mystery Brick. A hard-boiled detective story in the vein of The Maltese Falcon, Brick won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and paved the way for his sophomore effort, 2008's The Brothers Bloom. The caper comedy-drama, about two sibling con artists, was inspired by Bogdanovich's Paper Moon and David Mamet's heist-thriller, House of Games. For his third film, Johnson continued taking innovative approaches to familiar genres with the twisty, multi-layered 2012 sci-fi Looper. Now, the filmmaker is paying homage to the works of Agatha Christie with Knives Out, a black comedy whodunnit influenced by classic mystery films like Murder on the Orient Express and The Mirror Crack'd. When the distinguished crime novelist and family patriarch Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at...
- 11/22/2019
- by Adam Frazier
- firstshowing.net
The new mystery feature "Knives Out" is written and directed by Rian Johnson ("Star Wars: The Last Jedi") starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell and Christopher Plummer, opening November 27, 2019:
".... a modern take on the whodunit murder mystery, the film follows a family gathering gone horribly awry...
"...as renowned crime novelist 'Harlan Thrombey' (Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday.
"The inquisitive and debonair 'Det. Benoit Blanc' (Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate.
"From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web...
"...of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death..."
Cast also includes Riki Lindhome, Edi Patterson, Raúl Castillo, Noah Segan, Frank Oz and M. Emmet Walsh.
Johnson cited several classic mystery thrillers as influences on the film,...
".... a modern take on the whodunit murder mystery, the film follows a family gathering gone horribly awry...
"...as renowned crime novelist 'Harlan Thrombey' (Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday.
"The inquisitive and debonair 'Det. Benoit Blanc' (Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate.
"From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web...
"...of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death..."
Cast also includes Riki Lindhome, Edi Patterson, Raúl Castillo, Noah Segan, Frank Oz and M. Emmet Walsh.
Johnson cited several classic mystery thrillers as influences on the film,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek new footage, plus images from the upcoming mystery feature "Knives Out", written and directed by Rian Johnson ("Star Wars: The Last Jedi") starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell and Christopher Plummer, opening November 27, 2019:
".... a modern take on the whodunit murder mystery, the film follows a family gathering gone horribly awry, as renowned crime novelist 'Harlan Thrombey' (Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday. The inquisitive and debonair 'Det. Benoit Blanc' (Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death..."
Cast also includes Riki Lindhome, Edi Patterson, Raúl Castillo, Noah Segan, Frank Oz and M. Emmet Walsh.
Johnson cited several classic mystery...
".... a modern take on the whodunit murder mystery, the film follows a family gathering gone horribly awry, as renowned crime novelist 'Harlan Thrombey' (Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday. The inquisitive and debonair 'Det. Benoit Blanc' (Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death..."
Cast also includes Riki Lindhome, Edi Patterson, Raúl Castillo, Noah Segan, Frank Oz and M. Emmet Walsh.
Johnson cited several classic mystery...
- 7/2/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
'Making Love': Groundbreaking romantic gay drama returns to the big screen As part of its Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theaters will be presenting Arthur Hiller's groundbreaking 1982 romantic drama Making Love, the first U.S. movie distributed by a major studio that focused on a romantic gay relationship. Michael Ontkean, Harry Hamlin, and Kate Jackson star. The 35th Anniversary Screening of Making Love will be held on Saturday, June 24 – it's Gay Pride month, after all – at 7:30 p.m. at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. The movie will be followed by a Q&A session with Harry Hamlin, screenwriter Barry Sandler, and author A. Scott Berg, who wrote the “story” on which the film is based. 'Making Love' & What lies beneath In this 20th Century Fox release – Sherry Lansing was the studio head at the time – Michael Ontkean plays a...
- 6/24/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
In this week’s lurid horror The Neon Demon, Elle Fanning has a sharp-edged introduction to the fashion industry. But how well do you know other bitchy cinematic quips?
"You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humour and you smell"
A Fish Called Wanda
9 to 5
The Witches of Eastwick
The War of the Roses
"He's not ugly. He's completely unattractive"
Mean Girls
Young Adult
Margot at the Wedding
10 Things I Hate About You
"There are really only two things I dislike about you. Your face"
All About Eve
The Mirror Crack'd
The Devil Wears Prada
Drop Dead Gorgeous
"You're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you! You're not worth the powder it would take to blow you up"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Hangover
Revolutionary Road
Blue Valentine
"Everything that comes out...
"You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humour and you smell"
A Fish Called Wanda
9 to 5
The Witches of Eastwick
The War of the Roses
"He's not ugly. He's completely unattractive"
Mean Girls
Young Adult
Margot at the Wedding
10 Things I Hate About You
"There are really only two things I dislike about you. Your face"
All About Eve
The Mirror Crack'd
The Devil Wears Prada
Drop Dead Gorgeous
"You're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you! You're not worth the powder it would take to blow you up"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Hangover
Revolutionary Road
Blue Valentine
"Everything that comes out...
- 7/5/2016
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
British filmmaker Guy Hamilton has died in Majorca at the age of 93. Hamilton set the template for the James Bond franchise when he helmed 1964's iconic "Goldfinger".
He returned to the franchise in the early 1970s for Sean Connery's final outing with "Diamonds are Forever," and then ushered in Roger Moore's start to the series with "Live and Let Die" and "The Man with the Golden Gun".
In a statement, Bond series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson say: "We mourn the loss of our dear friend Guy Hamilton who firmly distilled the Bond formula in his much celebrated direction of 'Goldfinger' and continued to entertain audiences with 'Diamonds Are Forever,' 'Live and Let Die' and 'The Man with the Golden Gun.' We celebrate his enormous contribution to the Bond films."
Hamilton's work stretched far beyond Bond as well including directing "Funeral in Berlin,...
He returned to the franchise in the early 1970s for Sean Connery's final outing with "Diamonds are Forever," and then ushered in Roger Moore's start to the series with "Live and Let Die" and "The Man with the Golden Gun".
In a statement, Bond series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson say: "We mourn the loss of our dear friend Guy Hamilton who firmly distilled the Bond formula in his much celebrated direction of 'Goldfinger' and continued to entertain audiences with 'Diamonds Are Forever,' 'Live and Let Die' and 'The Man with the Golden Gun.' We celebrate his enormous contribution to the Bond films."
Hamilton's work stretched far beyond Bond as well including directing "Funeral in Berlin,...
- 4/21/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Vf Hollywood Charlize Theron's son loves Emily Blunt... and Frozen
Pajiba posits that Grease 2 is the superior Grease and a feminist triumph
Gothamist On the Waterfront is coming back to movie screens on April 24th and 27th as a Fathom Event. It's rarely seen on the big screen, so go
Variety there is a Three's Company movie in the works. Because.
Guy Goald "The Garlic Awakens"
The Retro Set the 8 most cinematic Duran Duran music videos. They stole from Mad Max, The Night Porter and even Indiana Jones
Towleroad This is awesome. Salt Lake City is renaming 900 South (a pretty cool street as it goes in Slc) "Harvey Milk Blvd". In related news: Slc must have changed a heap since I lived there for this to happen
NY Post Cher: The Musical. It could happen on Broadway
The New York Times Abolitionist Harriet Tubman is coming to the $20 bill.
Pajiba posits that Grease 2 is the superior Grease and a feminist triumph
Gothamist On the Waterfront is coming back to movie screens on April 24th and 27th as a Fathom Event. It's rarely seen on the big screen, so go
Variety there is a Three's Company movie in the works. Because.
Guy Goald "The Garlic Awakens"
The Retro Set the 8 most cinematic Duran Duran music videos. They stole from Mad Max, The Night Porter and even Indiana Jones
Towleroad This is awesome. Salt Lake City is renaming 900 South (a pretty cool street as it goes in Slc) "Harvey Milk Blvd". In related news: Slc must have changed a heap since I lived there for this to happen
NY Post Cher: The Musical. It could happen on Broadway
The New York Times Abolitionist Harriet Tubman is coming to the $20 bill.
- 4/21/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Guy Hamilton and Roger Moore on the set of "The Man With the Golden Gun" in Thailand, 1974.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Cinema Retro mourns the loss of director Guy Hamilton, who has passed away at age 93. Guy was an old friend and supporter of our magazine and a wonderful talent and raconteur. Hamilton, though British by birth, spent much of his life in France. After WWII, he entered the film industry in England and served as assistant director to Sir Carol Reed, working on the classic film "The Third Man". He also served as Ad on John Huston's "The African Queen". Gradually, he moved up the ladder to director and helmed such films as "An Inspector Calls", "The Colditz Story" and "The Devil's Disciple", the latter starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. In 1964 Hamilton was hired to direct the third James Bond film "Goldfinger" and made cinema history.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Cinema Retro mourns the loss of director Guy Hamilton, who has passed away at age 93. Guy was an old friend and supporter of our magazine and a wonderful talent and raconteur. Hamilton, though British by birth, spent much of his life in France. After WWII, he entered the film industry in England and served as assistant director to Sir Carol Reed, working on the classic film "The Third Man". He also served as Ad on John Huston's "The African Queen". Gradually, he moved up the ladder to director and helmed such films as "An Inspector Calls", "The Colditz Story" and "The Devil's Disciple", the latter starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. In 1964 Hamilton was hired to direct the third James Bond film "Goldfinger" and made cinema history.
- 4/21/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
CBS is developing a "Marple," a crime drama TV series inspired by Agatha Christie's Miss Marple books.
There's a twist. In this version the elderly spinster who resides in the quaint pre-WW2 village of St. Mary Mead is gone, replaced by a modern day 38-year-old American woman who inherits her grandmother's bookstore. She soon realises that things in her small California town aren't what they seem, and begins working as a private investigator to get to the bottom of the town's mysteries.
David Wolstencroft, Hilary Strong and Christie's grandson Matthew Prichard will executive produce. Disney attempted a similar style project four years ago with Jennifer Garner slated to star in and produce, but that project was dropped and met with a vocal backlash.
Christie penned twelve Miss Marple books with each of the works having been adapted numerous times for the big and small screen - stories that include titles such as "4:50 from Paddington,...
There's a twist. In this version the elderly spinster who resides in the quaint pre-WW2 village of St. Mary Mead is gone, replaced by a modern day 38-year-old American woman who inherits her grandmother's bookstore. She soon realises that things in her small California town aren't what they seem, and begins working as a private investigator to get to the bottom of the town's mysteries.
David Wolstencroft, Hilary Strong and Christie's grandson Matthew Prichard will executive produce. Disney attempted a similar style project four years ago with Jennifer Garner slated to star in and produce, but that project was dropped and met with a vocal backlash.
Christie penned twelve Miss Marple books with each of the works having been adapted numerous times for the big and small screen - stories that include titles such as "4:50 from Paddington,...
- 10/6/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Murder mysteries are so commonplace on TV that each week offers seemingly dozens of them on police procedural series and detective shows. But in the movies, whodunits are surprisingly rare, and really good ones rarer still. There's really only a handful of movies that excel in offering the viewer the pleasure of solving the crime along with a charismatic sleuth, often with an all-star cast of suspects hamming it up as they try not to appear guilty.
One of the best was "Murder on the Orient Express," released 40 years ago this week, on November 24, 1974. Like many films adapted from Agatha Christie novels, this one featured an eccentric but meticulous investigator (in this case, Albert Finney as Belgian epicure Hercule Poirot), a glamorous and claustrophobic setting (here, the famous luxury train from Istanbul to Paris), and a tricky murder plot with an outrageous solution. The film won an Oscar for passenger...
One of the best was "Murder on the Orient Express," released 40 years ago this week, on November 24, 1974. Like many films adapted from Agatha Christie novels, this one featured an eccentric but meticulous investigator (in this case, Albert Finney as Belgian epicure Hercule Poirot), a glamorous and claustrophobic setting (here, the famous luxury train from Istanbul to Paris), and a tricky murder plot with an outrageous solution. The film won an Oscar for passenger...
- 11/28/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
After 40 years, the British-born actress who conquered Hollywood and starred in TV's Murder, She Wrote is back on the West End stage. As she approaches her 90s, she's in her theatrical prime
In the play Blithe Spirit, the wildly eccentric and chaotic clairvoyant Madame Arcati, Noël Coward's most colourful creation, announces that "time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked".
No aphorism has ever applied less than this does to the actress now about to don the headscarves and bangles to play Arcati in the West End at the age of 88. Dame Angela Lansbury, ennobled earlier this month, has defied the laws of nature by becoming more theatrically prolific as her years have advanced. In 2007, she was Tony award-nominated for her role in a new Terrence McNally play, Deuce, on Broadway; in 2010, she was nominated again for a revival of Sondheim's A Little Night Music; and then,...
In the play Blithe Spirit, the wildly eccentric and chaotic clairvoyant Madame Arcati, Noël Coward's most colourful creation, announces that "time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked".
No aphorism has ever applied less than this does to the actress now about to don the headscarves and bangles to play Arcati in the West End at the age of 88. Dame Angela Lansbury, ennobled earlier this month, has defied the laws of nature by becoming more theatrically prolific as her years have advanced. In 2007, she was Tony award-nominated for her role in a new Terrence McNally play, Deuce, on Broadway; in 2010, she was nominated again for a revival of Sondheim's A Little Night Music; and then,...
- 1/26/2014
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
This week on Operation Kino, we're donning our fedoras and filming it all with terrible digital cameras, as we review Ruben Fleischer's Gangster Squad. From there we bring you the second-annual Patches Matches, in which Patches quizzes the co-hosts with questions about 2012 movies. Before any of that, though, there's a lightning round inspired by the Razzies and then tidbits, in which David tries out the social media site Letterboxd, Patches catches up with the Angela Lansbury non-classic The Mirror Crack'd, Da7e falls into the Star Trek Sinkhole, and Katey is annoyed by A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III. We end, as always, with your lightning round answers for dessert. Take a listen below and find your downloading options; for more from all of us, you can follow the show (@opkino), Da7e (@da7e), David (@davidehrlich or @CriterionCorner), Patches (@misterpatches) and Katey (@kateyrich) on Twitter.
- 1/11/2013
- cinemablend.com
Creative cinematographer and a key member of the Powell-Pressburger movie production team
Although the cinematographer Christopher Challis, who has died aged 93, was an essential member of the Archers production company of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, he joined them as director of photography at the time of their decline. However, he worked on more of the great British writing-directing team's films than any other cinematographer. These eccentric, extravagant, intelligent and witty fantasies went against the British realist tradition, allowing more scope for a creative cinematographer such as Challis. The sensuous use of Technicolor and flamboyant sets and designs made them closer to the MGM world of Vincente Minnelli and of Stanley Donen, who used Challis on six of his films.
Perhaps Challis's finest achievement was on Powell and Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) which, as he explained, had "no optical effects or tricks. It was all edited in...
Although the cinematographer Christopher Challis, who has died aged 93, was an essential member of the Archers production company of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, he joined them as director of photography at the time of their decline. However, he worked on more of the great British writing-directing team's films than any other cinematographer. These eccentric, extravagant, intelligent and witty fantasies went against the British realist tradition, allowing more scope for a creative cinematographer such as Challis. The sensuous use of Technicolor and flamboyant sets and designs made them closer to the MGM world of Vincente Minnelli and of Stanley Donen, who used Challis on six of his films.
Perhaps Challis's finest achievement was on Powell and Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) which, as he explained, had "no optical effects or tricks. It was all edited in...
- 6/10/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
I find it surprising that some people were surprised when the fact that Rock Hudson was gay was publicly revealed back in the mid-1980s, as the actor became the best-known person with AIDS in the world. After all, even my mother knew about that. Anyhow, today's jaded crowd, looking at the above photograph, will surely assert that it's so obvious that Rock Hudson was gay. Just look at him! I thoroughly disagree. In fact, I don't see anything "obvious" about Hudson's sexual orientation in the photo. And no, I'm not blind. The guy just looks like a man — gay, straight, anything in between — doing his best to appear classy, or at least what used to pass for classy. Personally, I don't find Hudson very convincing as a "classy" type à la Cary Grant. Whatever his sexual predilections, I've always found Rock Hudson much more believable in rugged roles, such...
- 6/25/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Lansbury Baffled By Miss Marple Reboot
Veteran actress Angela Lansbury has spoken out against plans to remake Miss Marple with Jennifer Garner playing a young version of the elderly spinster sleuth.
The Murder, She Wrote star portrayed Agatha Christie's famous detective in 1980 film The Mirror Crack'd, alongside a stellar cast including Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson, while other actresses to tackle the role include Dame Margaret Rutherford and Joan Hickson.
Disney bosses recently announced plans to reboot Miss Marple in a new movie showing her as a young woman, with Garner tapped to play the title role. Lansbury admits she is shocked by the news and can't understand how the concept could be successful.
She tells Britain's the Guardian, "Will you please tell me how? How can they cast this lovely young girl in that role? It doesn't make any sense at all."...
The Murder, She Wrote star portrayed Agatha Christie's famous detective in 1980 film The Mirror Crack'd, alongside a stellar cast including Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson, while other actresses to tackle the role include Dame Margaret Rutherford and Joan Hickson.
Disney bosses recently announced plans to reboot Miss Marple in a new movie showing her as a young woman, with Garner tapped to play the title role. Lansbury admits she is shocked by the news and can't understand how the concept could be successful.
She tells Britain's the Guardian, "Will you please tell me how? How can they cast this lovely young girl in that role? It doesn't make any sense at all."...
- 5/1/2011
- WENN
[1] Disney has obtained the movie rights to Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth character Miss Marple, who has appeared in twelve of Christie's novels. Traditionally, Miss Marple has been an elderly English woman who enjoys knitting and weeding, and whose harmless-looking exterior hides a sharp, logical mind. In fact, a large part of the fun of the character is the discrepancy between the assumptions you'd make from her outward appearance and her true nature as a shrewd detective. Naturally, then, the obvious casting choice for the role of Miss Marple would be Alias star Jennifer Garner. Wait, what? Deadline [2] reports that the 38-year-old Garner has won the role, which has been played previously by Margaret Rutherford at the age of 70 and Angela Lansbury in her 50s. Come to think of it, that's quite a gap between Rutherford and Lansbury, too. At this rate, the next Miss Marple after Garner will probably...
- 3/29/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
This beloved classic is getting a facelift. Quite literally.
Disney has closed a deal for a big screen reboot of Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple" mystery novel series, and the House of Mouse is making substantial changes to the story. Deadline reports that, instead of the British grandma Jane Marple portrayed in the books and in previous big screen incarnations, the film series will instead feature a young, far more svelte amateur sleuth, to be played by Jennifer Garner.
Garner, of course, has plenty of screen experience when it comes to solving mysteries, starring in the longrunning TV spy show, "Alias." This will be a bit different; the novels, 12 in all, were written from the 1930-70's. Whether the films will stay in that considerable span of time, or be brought up to date has yet to be announced.
Marple has been played by a number of notable actors, both...
Disney has closed a deal for a big screen reboot of Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple" mystery novel series, and the House of Mouse is making substantial changes to the story. Deadline reports that, instead of the British grandma Jane Marple portrayed in the books and in previous big screen incarnations, the film series will instead feature a young, far more svelte amateur sleuth, to be played by Jennifer Garner.
Garner, of course, has plenty of screen experience when it comes to solving mysteries, starring in the longrunning TV spy show, "Alias." This will be a bit different; the novels, 12 in all, were written from the 1930-70's. Whether the films will stay in that considerable span of time, or be brought up to date has yet to be announced.
Marple has been played by a number of notable actors, both...
- 3/29/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
A new film version of Agatha Christie's much-loved middle-class mysteries to feature a younger heroine and unfold in the present day
She is not, perhaps, the first actor that springs to mind when one thinks of Miss Marple, the elderly, unmarried detective of Agatha Christie's famous crime novels. Yet Jennifer Garner is to take on the role of the amateur sleuth in a new film that will see her character hit the screen as a younger woman, Deadline reports.
Garner, 38, will also the produce the film, which is being backed by Disney. So far it is not known whether the project will be based on any of Christie's novels: the British author always posited Marple as a woman in her 70s, so screenwriter Mark Frost may well be working from scratch.
This genteel detective with the instinctive understanding of the dark side of human nature has been played...
She is not, perhaps, the first actor that springs to mind when one thinks of Miss Marple, the elderly, unmarried detective of Agatha Christie's famous crime novels. Yet Jennifer Garner is to take on the role of the amateur sleuth in a new film that will see her character hit the screen as a younger woman, Deadline reports.
Garner, 38, will also the produce the film, which is being backed by Disney. So far it is not known whether the project will be based on any of Christie's novels: the British author always posited Marple as a woman in her 70s, so screenwriter Mark Frost may well be working from scratch.
This genteel detective with the instinctive understanding of the dark side of human nature has been played...
- 3/29/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
There's updating, and then there's taking the piss.
Disney Pictures has closed months of negotiations to capture the film rights to Agatha Christie’s detective Miss Marple says The Hollywood Reporter.
In surprising news though, the studio is making drastic changes in their approach to the character of Jane Marple. Gone is the elderly spinster who resides in the quaint pre-WW2 village of St. Mary Mead. In this version she'll be a young, modern day and possibly American city girl - and no, this is not a satire.
Jennifer Garner is set to produce through her Vandalia Films and will likely star in the new adaptation. Mark Frost, who co-created "Twin Peaks" and penned the "Fantastic Four" movies, will be penning the script.
The changeover is rather disturbing to say the least. The entire point of the character is that her small English village life and kind, unassuming outward appearance...
Disney Pictures has closed months of negotiations to capture the film rights to Agatha Christie’s detective Miss Marple says The Hollywood Reporter.
In surprising news though, the studio is making drastic changes in their approach to the character of Jane Marple. Gone is the elderly spinster who resides in the quaint pre-WW2 village of St. Mary Mead. In this version she'll be a young, modern day and possibly American city girl - and no, this is not a satire.
Jennifer Garner is set to produce through her Vandalia Films and will likely star in the new adaptation. Mark Frost, who co-created "Twin Peaks" and penned the "Fantastic Four" movies, will be penning the script.
The changeover is rather disturbing to say the least. The entire point of the character is that her small English village life and kind, unassuming outward appearance...
- 3/29/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Philip French remembers the child star turned Oscar-winning actress, who was as celebrated as much for her tempestuous relationships as her movies
For people like myself, born in Britain in the inter-war years and growing up during the second world war, Elizabeth Taylor will always be thought of as the youngest of four British evacuees who brought their immaculate English accents to Hollywood and became an essential part of a corner of Tinseltown that was forever England. She and Peter Lawford were transported across the Atlantic by their parents as war clouds gathered over Europe and were put under contract by MGM in the early 1940s. Roddy McDowall followed when bombs began to fall on Britain, as did Angela Lansbury who was also signed by MGM. McDowall was the first to attain stardom, playing the Welsh miner's son in How Green Was My Valley and then appearing in MGM's children's classic,...
For people like myself, born in Britain in the inter-war years and growing up during the second world war, Elizabeth Taylor will always be thought of as the youngest of four British evacuees who brought their immaculate English accents to Hollywood and became an essential part of a corner of Tinseltown that was forever England. She and Peter Lawford were transported across the Atlantic by their parents as war clouds gathered over Europe and were put under contract by MGM in the early 1940s. Roddy McDowall followed when bombs began to fall on Britain, as did Angela Lansbury who was also signed by MGM. McDowall was the first to attain stardom, playing the Welsh miner's son in How Green Was My Valley and then appearing in MGM's children's classic,...
- 3/27/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
No one under 40 was in the stalls for the Hollywood star's last good role, so why did the Times devote so much coverage to her death the day after budget day?
Dame Elizabeth Taylor's last recognisable movie – an Agatha Christie adaptation – arrived three decades ago, when Geoffrey Howe was chancellor.
Consider, then, the priorities of the Times on the day that Taylor died. Twenty rather padded pages of pullout budget coverage; a full dozen fact- and ex-husband-packed pages on the Taylor passing. Even the Daily Mail only managed five.
It is commonplace to say that newspapers are chasing (and losing) young readers. It's odd, then, to reflect that nobody under the age of 40 was around in the front stalls when The Mirror Crack'd Taylor's residual career apart.
I know George Osborne didn't have much cash to move around, but it is at least money in your pocket now, not crumpled fivers from long ago.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor's last recognisable movie – an Agatha Christie adaptation – arrived three decades ago, when Geoffrey Howe was chancellor.
Consider, then, the priorities of the Times on the day that Taylor died. Twenty rather padded pages of pullout budget coverage; a full dozen fact- and ex-husband-packed pages on the Taylor passing. Even the Daily Mail only managed five.
It is commonplace to say that newspapers are chasing (and losing) young readers. It's odd, then, to reflect that nobody under the age of 40 was around in the front stalls when The Mirror Crack'd Taylor's residual career apart.
I know George Osborne didn't have much cash to move around, but it is at least money in your pocket now, not crumpled fivers from long ago.
- 3/27/2011
- by Peter Preston
- The Guardian - Film News
I cannot cannot cannot express my sadness at the passing of such a vibrant, powerful, charismatic, and tumultuous woman as Elizabeth Taylor.
Only 79, Taylor died peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, where she has been suffering from congestive heart failure for over 6 weeks.
Taylor didn't really become the provocative actress you know her as today until she was well into her 30s and beyond, though she started acting at 12. She explored sadness, horror, pain, fear, sexuality, and she lived it through her profoundly passionate life.
In Butterfield 8, she plays a woman who screws and drinks, before women screwing and drinking was acceptable, and her character deals with this contradiction in a most unflattering and earth-shattering way:
In Who's Afriad of Virginia Woolf and Taming of the Shrew, her real-life passion for husband Richard Burton was behind every kiss, every slap, every malicious barb and gentle whisper:...
Only 79, Taylor died peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, where she has been suffering from congestive heart failure for over 6 weeks.
Taylor didn't really become the provocative actress you know her as today until she was well into her 30s and beyond, though she started acting at 12. She explored sadness, horror, pain, fear, sexuality, and she lived it through her profoundly passionate life.
In Butterfield 8, she plays a woman who screws and drinks, before women screwing and drinking was acceptable, and her character deals with this contradiction in a most unflattering and earth-shattering way:
In Who's Afriad of Virginia Woolf and Taming of the Shrew, her real-life passion for husband Richard Burton was behind every kiss, every slap, every malicious barb and gentle whisper:...
- 3/23/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
The woman, the star, the legend that is Elizabeth Taylor passed away this morning at the age of 79.
The violet-eyed actress was hospitalized six weeks ago at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for treatment of congestive heart failure, a condition that had stabilized. The hope was she would soon be well enough to return home, sadly that wasn't to be.
Taylor had a career that spanned a full six decades, from her first role in the 1942 comedy "There's One Born Every Minute" to her last in the 2001 TV movie "These Old Broads". Her first real breakthrough role was as Velvet Brown in MGM's "National Velvet" which made her a star at age 12.
For the next few years she became a very bankable adolescent star with a string of successful features. Her first success in an adult role was in the original "Father of the Bride" in 1950 with Spencer Tracy,...
The violet-eyed actress was hospitalized six weeks ago at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for treatment of congestive heart failure, a condition that had stabilized. The hope was she would soon be well enough to return home, sadly that wasn't to be.
Taylor had a career that spanned a full six decades, from her first role in the 1942 comedy "There's One Born Every Minute" to her last in the 2001 TV movie "These Old Broads". Her first real breakthrough role was as Velvet Brown in MGM's "National Velvet" which made her a star at age 12.
For the next few years she became a very bankable adolescent star with a string of successful features. Her first success in an adult role was in the original "Father of the Bride" in 1950 with Spencer Tracy,...
- 3/23/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
In July of 2009, A&E released the Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple DVD set that included all of those included in this new Great Detectives Anthology. The difference between this set and that 2009 release is the addition of 5 Sherlock Holmes mysteries (featuring Peter Cushing), the omission of 7 Poirot mysteries one Marple mystery. Exactly why this change in the old set was made is hard to say, but the set definitely benefits from the addition of Sherlock Holmes to the mix, it immediately makes the set more palatable to a wider audience who may not have foreknowledge of the two comparatively lesser known detectives who headlined the first set.
The Sherlock Holmes mysteries included in the set are “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, “A Study in Scarlet”, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”, “The Sign of Four” and “The Blue Carbuncle”.
Just like with the original Poirot & Marple set, they’re oddly out of order,...
The Sherlock Holmes mysteries included in the set are “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, “A Study in Scarlet”, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”, “The Sign of Four” and “The Blue Carbuncle”.
Just like with the original Poirot & Marple set, they’re oddly out of order,...
- 10/25/2010
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
More than 4m copies of Agatha Christie's 80 whodunnits are bought around the world every year. But is she really as good as her fans say, or have they just lost the plot?
To me, they're not so much whodunnits as idontgeddits. I have tried many times over the years to get into Agatha Christie's books. It should be easy. I'm an omnivorous (if you're being polite; undiscriminating if you're not) reader. I am no fan of the modern world and particularly not of the gore that increasingly besplatters it whenever the words "murder mystery" or "crime fiction" heave into view.
But I have always found Christie unreadable. Frank Skinner in his autobiography explains that he can't enjoy fiction – any fiction – because the minute he opens a book to read "Alan walked into the room", he thinks, "No, he didn't. There was no Alan. There is no room. You...
To me, they're not so much whodunnits as idontgeddits. I have tried many times over the years to get into Agatha Christie's books. It should be easy. I'm an omnivorous (if you're being polite; undiscriminating if you're not) reader. I am no fan of the modern world and particularly not of the gore that increasingly besplatters it whenever the words "murder mystery" or "crime fiction" heave into view.
But I have always found Christie unreadable. Frank Skinner in his autobiography explains that he can't enjoy fiction – any fiction – because the minute he opens a book to read "Alan walked into the room", he thinks, "No, he didn't. There was no Alan. There is no room. You...
- 10/1/2010
- by Lucy Mangan
- The Guardian - Film News
I had two different approaches to tonight's column; the first was to ignore anything about the "Lost" finale and just move forward like it was a regular Sunday night with nothing on TV. The second was to just type "Lost" over and over again, like so: Lost. Lost lost lost lost? Lost lost lost. Lost! Lost lost, lost lost lost, lost. Lost. But then I realized that the column would be indistinguishable from the comments. Also, it stops looking like a real word super quick and starts to unnerve me in a way I can't properly describe. Much like the actual show! Bam! And as for the first, it would be silly for me to ignore one of the biggest television events of the decade out of spite. Hell, I might even watch the damn thing. There's no way I'll come out of it any more or less confused than...
- 5/23/2010
- by Intern Rusty
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