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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 17h

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

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

*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 · 4d

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

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 4d

Hit me up with all your Christie film takes.

InSession Film @insessionfilm.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

VistaVision, baby

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 6d

And Nixon was also a notorious anti-Semite!

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 6d

just A+ hangdoggery

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 6d

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

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 6d

#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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

The king has come home.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 9d

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

Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 9d

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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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11d

The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol”

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

DNA testing links dead man to Texas ‘yogurt shop’ killings, police say

Robert Eugene Brashers has been named by police as a suspect in the 1991 killings of four teenage girls in Austin - the subject of “The Yogurt Shop Murders” miniseries.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 11d

The Marple-Fletcher convergence.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 12d

That’s a movie I’ve been really curious to revisit.

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Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 12d

Today’s nice little surprise: seeing a young Andre Royo sitting silently and pensively as part of a courtroom audience in a vintage Law & Order episode.

Julia Sirmons @juliasirmons.bsky.social · 12d

One of my first Brutcom loves. Probably warped my development in some troubling ways…

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