I cried like a baby when that one ended.
Have you read his daughter Anne Hillerman’s continuations of the series? I like them even better!
Apparently (I’ll trust my PIC here bc I can’t remember most things we watch beyond a couple of hours) we watched The Deeper You Dig.
Not that I have any recollection of it 
No I have not, I’ll give them a try. Thanks for the rec.
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We watched Maxxxine last night, which was, in our opinion, the weakest of Ti West’s trilogy (the other two were X and Pearl). They did a nice job with evoking the mid 80s in Hollywood, but the actual story was a mess. Oh well.
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Thanks for confirming my hunch that I won’t have to watch this.
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We did a double-feature last night: Immaculate, which was done quite well & does not shy away from rather graphic violence (if you are not a fan of heads being smashed in detail you should probz skip this movie). The creepy “professor” from Heist also makes an appearance.
We needed a palate cleanser after, and Lisa Frankenstein seemed just the ticket. Cute, fun, with a nice retro vibe, but not required watching.
Finally, a few more Curb epis from the 8th (and probably best) season.
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It’s best if you read them in order. I’m jealous that you get to read them for the first time! 
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Always.
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In my continuing quest to watch good movies I’ve missed over the years today I watched a classic British thriller, The Day Of The Jackal (1973). Didn’t know a single member of the international cast and yet enjoyed the movie very much. Well worth the 143-minute running time. Plenty of snazzy European cars too, especially lots of Citroens!
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The book is great as well, though it’s been a long time since I read it.
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Will surely listen to this! Thank youuu
Hellhole, another @Lectroid recommendation. The gross-out scenes were well done, but we found the movie to be lacking, overall. Somewhat similar to the classic The Thing, but nowhere near as good.
Started season 9 of Curb as a palate cleanser.
Paper Moon (1973) - dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Tatum O’Neal was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar at age 10 for her portrayal of cynical, wise-beyond-her-years Addie, an orphaned girl stuck with Ryan O’Neal’s Moses Pray, a con artist/Bible salesman in depression era America in this gorgeously shot, warm-hearted comedy that’s all the more remarkable when you realize the absolute chaos that went on behind the scenes.
This would be Polly Platt’s last collaboration with her ex, Bogdanovich. After the huge success of Last Picture Show, Bogdanovich followed it up with the O’Neal/Streisand comedy Whats Up, Doc?, another huge hit. It was on that film that Platt met Tatum O’Neal and knew she would make the perfect Addie. And it fell to Platt, neglecting her own children, leaving them back in Arizona with relatives, to play surrogate mother to Tatum on set, since Ryan O’Neal would apparently barely acknowledge his role as her actual father, and O’Neal’s ex, Tatum’s mother, was a severe alcoholic and addict who was barely physically present. Reportedly, Ryan was so angry that Tatum got an Oscar nom and he didn’t that he struck her. When Tatum won, she was accompanied by neither of her parents.
Combine this with Platt’s new boyfriend, the Prop Master in the film, and Bogdanovich being incensed about it, full of hypocrisy considering his still-ongoing relationship w/ Cybil Shepherd, and you have a recipe for the collapse of what everyone involved called one of the best creative partnerships in film at the time.
Platt would go to write and produce the controversial Pretty Baby and be the first woman admitted to the Art Director’s Guild, allowing her to finally be credited. But she never again had the easy influence over a film they way she did w/ Bogdanovich. And Bogdanovich’s next couple of Platt-less follow-ups were flops, and he never again hit the heights he did when collaborating w/ Platt.
Paper Moon is a delight, with beautiful midwestern plains photography by Lazlo Kovacs (DP for Easy Rider, among others) and a fantastic supporting role for Madeline Kahn, who always improves whatever she appears in. Go see it. And listen to the You Must Remember This podcast episodes titled Polly Platt, TheInvisible Woman. Fascinating stuff.
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I started watching Red Eye tonight.
We watched all of Blue Lights on BritBox over a few days.
The latest season of Slow Horses, on Apple TV, is off to a great start!
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Apollo 13: Survival. Really we’ll done documentary about the moon mission that went awry. Even though I knew exactly how the story would end ( I was a space mission nerd as a kid and there’s that Ron Howard film from 1995) it was still a gripping and nerve wracking experience. Just dropped on Netflix today.
The Wasp, brand new psych thriller. Trailer tells you nothing and critics give too much plot away. Full of unexpected twists.
I always remember “Paper Moon” with fondness. Or at least I used too!
