Roger Director pens the first episode up this week. It originally aired on 1 October, 1985, and finds David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) taking on a very strange case that gets them, and the Blue Moon Detective Agency, tangled up in murder, yet again. When a woman, Barbara Wylie (Judith Hansen) wearing a…
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Moonlighting (1985) – Gunfight at the So-So Corral, and Read the Mind… See the Movie
Maddie’s (Cybill Shepherd) first full day at the Blue Moon Detective Agency office doesn’t go as well as she hopes in the first episode this week. Written by Micheal Petryni, Gunfight at the So-So Corral, the first episode after the pilot, debuted on 5 March, 1985. When the office is slow, David Addison (Bruce Willis)…
Neuromancer (1984) – William Gibson
Today’s book shelf takes me to a science fiction classic, written by the father of the cyberpunk genre, William Gibson. This novel came out in 1984. I was to turn 12 that year, and if I had been given this book then, or any age shortly around then, I don’t think I would have enjoyed…
Miami Vice (1989) -Hard Knocks, and Fruit of the Poison Tree
Switek’s (John Talbott) gambling addiction is getting worse as we find out in Hard Knocks. Written by Ken Solarz from a story by Robert Ward, Scott Shepherd and Solraz, this episode first debuted on 20 January, 1989. Switek sinks into drunkenness, and increasingly poor gambling choices getting him in more trouble with a gangster,who has…
Blue Velvet (1986) – David Lynch
The next big title up for viewing in DK Canada’s highly enjoyable, The Movie Book is the David Lynch classic, Blue Velvet. It features a lot of familiar faces to Lynch fans, and in fact served as the launching point of inspiration for Twin Peaks. The Norman Rockwell facade of small town America (the town…
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered (2019) – Amber Hunt & Emily G. Thompson
DK Canada’s latest release invites you to investigate the darker corners of the human psyche, as authors Hunt and Thompson take you through twenty of the most gruesome unsolved murders that have haunted society since their occurrence. I think all of us, to some degree or another, are fascinated by the darkness within the human…
Miami Vice (1986) – Shadow in the Dark, and El Viejo
Chuck Adamson pens the script for the first episode up this week, Shadow in the Dark, which plunges Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Micheal Thomas) into an unusual burglary case that puts Sonny into the mind of a cat burglar, known as The Shadow (Vincent Caristi), a trip that may cost him…
All the President’s Men (1976) – Alan J. Pakula
One of the films that are on DK Canada’s What Else to Watch list after I screened Battle of Algiers is one of my favorite newspaper films, All the President’s Men. Based on the brilliant expose by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein the film is as relevant now, perhaps more so, as when it was…
Miami Vice (1984) – Give a Little, Take a Little, and Little Prince
Crockett (Don Johnson) spends time in a cell this week, when he is held in contempt for not identifying one of his informants in a case he’s working on with Tubbs (Philip Micheal Thomas). Give a Little, Take a Little was written by Chuck Adamson and first debuted on 7 December, 1984. The cops are…
Se7en (1995) – David Fincher
The final big title in the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book in the Thriller section is The Silence of the Lambs. It should not be a surprise that I have covered that one before, as well as most of the recommendations, except for this one, David Fincher’s noir-esque thriller, Se7en. Starring Brad…
Ole Timey Radio Presents Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dead Adventuress
Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dead Adventuress Original Broadcast: February 25, 1945 Starring: GABE GREY (imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm2484469/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Twitter: @Gabe_Grey) RAINBOW SUN FRANCKS (imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm0290478/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Twitter: @RainbowFrancks) NOAH DANBY (imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm0199139/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Twitter: @NoahDanby) KRISTIAN BRUUN (imdb: www.imdb.com/name/nm2106870/?ref_=nv_sr_3 Twitter: @TheBruun) For video version: youtu.be/YI2AG5efjqQ For extra content, become a Mind Reels Patron today! www.patreon.com/TheMindReels
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) – Otto Preminger
The fantastic James Stewart stars in the next film from the What Else to Watch list following DK Canada’s The Movie Book’s recommendation of the brilliant, Laura. Featuring an all star cast including Lee Remick, Orson Bean and George C. Scott, the film also features a score by Duke Ellington. Stewart plays Paul Biegler, a…
