by mike | Oct 2, 2025 | Mysteries, Mystery Series, Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
Mon Dieu, this is quite a mystery series! This post first ran a few years ago. Award-winning Canadian writer Louise Penny is the author of the popular mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec police force, which services the...
by mike | Sep 25, 2025 | Mysteries, Mystery Series, Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized, Women |
A fourth season came out since this post first ran, and it was simply titled Miss Scarlet, since the Duke ducked out. My bride and I just finished viewing the three seasons of the PBS Masterpiece mystery series, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, which we enjoyed. The stories...
by mike | Jul 3, 2025 | Creature Features, Fantasy, Monster Movies, Monsters, Movies, Thrillers, TV Shows, Uncategorized, Western Movies |
Sometimes we could all use a good scream, especially the way things are these days. This post first ran in 2022. 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...
by mike | May 19, 2025 | Holocaust, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, TV Shows, Uncategorized, Women |
The late actress, Ingrid Pitt, gained a great deal of notoriety while starring in a number of 1970s horror films from Britain’s Hammer Film Productions and other studios. But no fictional movie could match the unthinkable, real-life horror she experienced as a child....
by mike | Apr 28, 2025 | Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
The BritBox original series, McDonald and Dodds—a British crime drama whose setting is the historic city of Bath—ran for four seasons. There will not be a fifth. And that’s a bummer. To begin with, four seasons may sound significant, but they were only comprised of...
by mike | Dec 16, 2024 | Aging, Death, Mystery Series, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
A memorable tagline: “One Black, one white, one blonde.” Michael Cole, the “White Guy” from the popular 1960s-70s crime drama, The Mod Squad, passed away last week at the age of 84. In death he joins co-stars Peggy Lipton (2019) and Clarence Williams III (2021). FROM...
