To quote Keenan Wynn, “REBOB!”
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yeah, they get less-good as you go along, and especially when the studio pressured the writers to tone down their drinking-based humor. but Powell and Loy are just magic together.
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I watched the final Poirot last night, and holy crap…
Summary
An adaptation of Poirot’s final mystery, Curtains, where Poirot himself commits murder.
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so it’s like that final Dalzeil and Pascoe 
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Mayday Handmaid’s Tale
Loved it!!!
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Never seen it.
If I’m a Foyle/Morse/Endeavour fan, would I like it?
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yeah, it’s decent. The books are better . I suppose it’s closer to Morse than Foyle.
The series finale is horrible.
“After the 46th and final film, in which Pascoe ignores how he’s behaved for the previous 45 films and forms his own one-man vigilante organization to kill off suspects, the BBC put it out of its misery.”
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Just finished watching Infinity Train. A surprisingly mature kids show especially from Cartoon Network. Feels similar to The Phantom Tollbooth.
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I appear to be on something of a sports binge of late.
The last time I paid much attention to the cricket was back when Shrub was the US President. These days I don’t even recognise the names of most of the players.
But the Steve Smith vs Jofra Archer battle in the Ashes Test tonight is absolutely spectacular. Huge talent at both ends, epic drama. Brilliant cricket.
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EDIT: although that particular battle is now on hiatus. Archer just hit Smith in the head hard enough to send him to the medics…
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Shit. I’m watching Diagnosis on Netflix, three episodes in, and two of the three episodes the patients aren’t getting the care they need basically because of how American health care works. The very first episode the patient would get treatment but no diagnosis because she couldn’t afford it, and this third one is similar.
The first one they went to Italy to get a free DNA profile and a diagnosis that way.
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Right now, on TCM on-demand, online, “In the Heat of the Night” (1967). That same year Sidney Poitier also appeared in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” and “To Sir, with Love”.
Is it telling, lol, that I find GWCTD? archaic, but not ITHOTN? (As for TSWL, that’s timeless to me. Which may also be telling.) I think part of it is that in the former, it’s basically the last run of the Kate-&-Spencer show. But what’s verrrrrrrrry telling is that Mr. Poitier didn’t get one Oscar nomination that year; and that Spence lost to Rod Steiger (no mercy Oscar), who starred with Sidney in…ITHOTN.
P.S.: The soundtrack is incredible, but…Quincy Jones did it, so yeah.
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I totally agree with you. I think it comes down to ITHITN’s honesty.
I will say this for GWCTD, Spencer Tracy gives a great performance. Especially great considering he was dying at the time and needed an oxygen tank off-camera.
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He basically played Spencer Tracy his whole life, just in the sense of “What if I were… (whatever profession and type of person role calls for)?”. But of course, they couldn’t let him play a dying old white man whose daughter’s going to marry a black man; although that probably would’ve won him the Oscar. Remember: If a role calls for one to die or be a disabled person, one chances of winning the Academy Award are automatically increased. And if one has to act both…well then, lol!
P.S.: While wondering if Rod Steiger had met or worked with Carroll O’Connor, I found this: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-01-ca-52473-story.html
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Smith was eventually removed from the game due to concussion, and was replaced by Marnus Labuschagne.
Guess what Archer did to Labuschagne as soon as he came out to bat?
No concussion this time; Labuschagne caught it on the helmet grill, whereas Smith was hit on the jaw. It still knocked him on his arse, though (unsurprisingly: Archer bowls at about 90mph).
(note for ‘Muricans: this is all within the rules of the game. It’s the batter’s responsibility to defend themself while batting; so long as it isn’t excessive, it’s totally acceptable for a bowler to aim at the batter)
Still, this rookie Archer (this is his debut Test) is one to watch. Serious talent.
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All this is just reinforcing my contention that cricket is the slowest-moving violent sport in the world. I don’t know why boxing and rugby get all the stick when cricket demands one stand in the way of a wooden ball being hurled.
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Having re-watched Your Highness, Natalie Portman’s acting, while nothing to write home about, isn’t in the top twenty things wrong with that movie (which is basically a feature-length dick joke dressed up as medieval fantasy).
And now, I’m going to let myself forget about that movie again.
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OMG this sounds awesome
Krystal Stubbs, a minimum-wage water park employee, lies, schemes and cons her way up the ranks of the cultish, multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme that drove her family to ruin in the first place.
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