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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 11h

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

Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 11h

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.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 6d

It’s no Knives Out I guess.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 8d

The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in 'Casablanca'

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 9d

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

1999: The Podcast @1999thepodcast.bsky.social · 9d

This week, @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social are joined by actor/writer/podcast host @amandajanestern.com to talk about rockets, boys, coal miners, and Joe Johnston in OCTOBER SKY!

Get it here or wherever you get podcasts!

1999: The Podcast #082 - October Sky - with Amanda Jane Stern

Actor and writer Amanda Jane Stern joins us to talk about bad dads, Bechtel Test failures, and boys with rockets in "October Sky"

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 12d

Hit me up with all your Christie film takes.

InSession Film @insessionfilm.bsky.social · 13d

Women InSession: @thereforereview.bsky.social and @jaylansalah.bsky.social are joined by @juliasirmons.bsky.social to discuss Agatha Christie and the film adaptations of her work!

Listen: linktr.ee/insessionfilm

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 15d

VistaVision, baby

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 15d

And Nixon was also a notorious anti-Semite!

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 15d

just A+ hangdoggery

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 15d

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

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 15d

#DYK? Dan Hedaya, who played Cher's Dad Mel Horowitz is 85 years old, has been acting for a half-century, and is on record saying CLUELESS is his favorite movie role of them all.

We are watching CLUELESS today, dir by Amy Heckerling as part of our BREAK THE FRAME FILM FESTIVAL #BTFF

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 16d

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

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…

crimereads.com

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 18d

The king has come home.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 17d

Why are we spending so many of our precious Hollywood resources on overpriced episodes of Celebrity Lip Sync Battle

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 17d

I don't want to write off all biopics, but I'm getting so bored of "Watch the famous person do a good impression of another famous person."

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