by mike | Sep 26, 2022 | Books, Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Novels, Mystery Series, Romance, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
My bride and I have gotten hooked on a new “dark comedy/mystery” series on Acorn TV. Recipes for Love and Murder, based on the Tannie Maria mystery novels of Sally Andrew, takes place in the rural South African town of Eden. That’s a misnomer, because this Eden is...
by mike | Sep 15, 2022 | Baseball, California, Fantasy, Research, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
Robert Sorrels, the subject of this story, passed away a few months after I first published the post in 2019. I’m old enough to have watched the original Twilight Zone series when it was new. It ran for five seasons, from 1959 to 1964, and was one of my favorite...
by mike | Sep 5, 2022 | Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized, Western Movies |
One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1954 sci-fi/monster thriller, Them! That’s the one about nuclear testing in the New Mexico desert causing common ants to mutate into nine-foot giants. One thing about it that always struck me as funny was that the scream...
by mike | Aug 22, 2022 | Books, Humor, Movies, Mysteries, Mystery Films, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
Despite our affection for British mysteries, my bride and I had passed on Father Brown for quite some time. I mean, a Catholic priest who acts as an amateur sleuth, solving all manner of crimes, mostly murders? It just didn’t sound like our cup of Earl Grey. Wow, were...
by mike | Jun 23, 2022 | Books, Death, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Psychological Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
This reimagining of a great haunted house story scared the crap out of viewers. I first presented this post in 2018. So what did horror-meister Stephen King think about the Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, a revisionist version of the 1959 classic ghost...
by mike | Apr 4, 2022 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
No, we’re not talking about William Shakespeare, or his wife, Anne Hathaway—not exactly, anyway. This is about Luella “Lu” Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) and Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton), stars of the delightful BBC British detective/comedy series, Shakespeare and Hathaway:...
