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  1. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Ramen Heads, a documentary on Hulu about ramen chefs in Japan. Think Jiro Dreams of Sushi, but encompassing the larger ramen community, with several ramen superstars.
  2. Julian Shellhammer

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    With the grandkids visiting, the regular Friday night routine of mixology was sort of re-configured. Instead of sipping some classic cocktail to welcome the weekend, I ended up waiting until the tykes were put to bed, then I enjoyed some JW neat, falling asleep in front of the tv, watching some...
  3. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Shadow on the Wall (1950), with Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, and Gigi Perreau, dir. Pat Jackson. A really dark story, with Ann Sothern playing the villain and Scott a sympathetic character. There's a murder, an innocent man framed, and a traumatized child as potentially the only witness who could...
  4. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Some of the Agatha Christie Marple episodes, and the two Sally Lockhart mysteries. Still enjoying the Michael Gambon version of Maigret. We noticed our shows of choice are alliterative: Monk, Murdoch, Maigret, Murder (She Wrote). Not to mention beginning a revisit of the Mary Tyler Moore series...
  5. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Roadblock (1951) with Charles McGraw and Joan Dixon, dir. by Harold Daniels. McGraw is an insurance agency detective who makes bad decisions when he falls for Dixon, who consorts with an urbane gangster. Part noir, part police procedural, it climaxes with a car chase down the Los Angeles River...
  7. Julian Shellhammer

    Show us their hats!

    We watched it on the Acorn streaming service.
  8. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A Fistful of Dollars (1964) with Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name called Joe, dir. Sergio Leone. Forgotten how bloody it was. For the handful that don't know, the plot is a re-imagined Yojimbo, with many plot points and characters imported wholesale. Made Rowdy Yates a star. The...
  9. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935), a Perry Mason story, with Warren Willam as Perry, Genevieve Tobin as Della Street, and the dependable Allen Jenkins as Spudsy Drake. Strictly a programmer, with Mason as a slick double talker who breaks laws in the service of mystery-solving with easy-going...
  10. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Killing (1956) with an amazing cast - Sterling Hayden, Colleen Gray, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Elisha Cook, Jr., Joe Sawyer, Timothy Carey, and, believe it or not, Rodney Dangerfield as a crowd scene extra. Dir. Stanley Kubrick, who showcases the tracking, gliding camera...
  11. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The Michael Gambon Maigret series, from 1992. We enjoy the emphasis on clue-spotting, deduction, and the inevitable twist or two at the end. Via BritBox.
  13. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Out of the Blue (1947) with George Brent, Virginia Mayo, Turhan Bey, Ann Dvorak, and Carol Landis, dir. Leigh Jason. IMDb folks call this a screwball comedy, however, I found the humor arising out of the plot points to be strained. The Missus agreed. Milquetoast Brent gets tangled up with...
  14. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Crime by Night (1944) w/ Jane Wyman and Jerome Cowan as a PI and his sidekick secretary. Wyman is top-billed in the credits, but has about half the screen time of Cowan. The pair solve a mystery in the most breezy way this side of Nick and Nora. Wyman gets the best zingers for Cowan's less than...
  15. Julian Shellhammer

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Last night it was a Manhattan, to while away the Friday evening. However, the program we were watching ran longer than a Manhattan, so I was compelled to finish the evening with some sips of JW Red. The Missus enjoyed her Boston Side Car, with a lime freshly picked from the back yard.
  16. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Another episode of the Maigret series (Night at the Crossroads) with Rowan Atkinson in the title role. On the Britbox. A dark world, but a well-done period piece with a last moment revelation of vital clues that explain everything. There's a Maigret series with Michael Gambon that we will check...
  17. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Confidential Agent (1945) with Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall. In 1937 Boyer's character travels to London to buy coal for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War. The Fascists want to get the coal themselves. Violence and death ensue. Bacall's character is supposed to be English, but she...
  19. Julian Shellhammer

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Some blended Scotch, neat, from Costco. It was good.
  20. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Kruty 1918 (2019), a Ukrainian film about a group of students who in WWI enlisted in the army and were ordered to defend a train station against Russian troops. More historical background on my part would have been beneficial. The part about the Russian commander in his customized railcar...
  21. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Watched 12 of the 13 episodes of Kevin Brownlow's BBC documentary Hollywood, over several days, courtesy the you tube. The episode I could not find was the one on studio owners. I watched it on PBS years ago and have only picked up one or two shows here and there. Well-done story of the...
  22. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Satan Met a Lady (1936) with Bette Davis and Warren William in this William Dieterle-directed remake of The Maltese Falcon. As secretary for gumshoe Warren William, Marie Wilson gives a sneak preview of her My Friend Irma persona. It's more breezy than the other two versions, giving WW snappy...
  23. Julian Shellhammer

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Maigret Sets a Trap, it looks like from 2016 but IMDB says 2019 US broadcast debut. Via Britbox. Set in 1955 Paris, with Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Maigret. A bit on the slower-paced side, but with twists and turns. The Missus liked the mystery and the fashions, I liked the nifty lids and the...

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