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A little update on this ~~ Now to be released on Aug 28, 2025 on Netflix. It is a Comedy, Crime, Mystery, and Thriller. The cast of The Thursday Murder Club includes:
~~ with the top 4 being the main characters ~~
Helen Mirren (The Queen, Gosford Park)
Pierce Brosnan (GoldenEye, The Out-Laws)
Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More)
Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Diplomat)
Naomi Ackie (Lady Macbeth, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker)
Daniel Mays (Atonement, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget)
Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Anna Karenina, Chevalier)
Tom Ellis (Lucifer, Players)
Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, The Crown)
David Tennant (Doctor Who, Inside Man)
Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hot Fuzz)
Geoff Bell (RocknRolla, Kingsman: The Secret Service)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Withnail and I)
Ingrid Oliver (Doctor Who; Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
Four irrepressible retirees spend their time solving cold case murders for fun, but their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn when they find themselves with a real whodunit on their hands.
Trivia
On the BBC, author Richard Osman said he would be having nothing to do with the production because producer Steven Spielberg made E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and if he did that he knows how to make a film. He said this was the first of four books featuring the characters in The Thursday Murder Club. The second, The Man Who Died Twice, was released in September 2021. The Man Who Died Twice
The Life List by Lori Nelson SpielmanA Netflix movie - 2 hrs - currently playing - having started on March 28th
IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2172954/...
Parents Guide
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2172954/...
Trivia
Sofia Carson learned how to play Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune" on the piano for this role.
At 1:09:32 into the movie when Alex is stepping out of the cab, the Ghostbusters' firehouse can be seen in the background.
The Friend by Sigrid NunezThis is currently a rent or buy film on Prime. It was released in theaters on March 28th. Hoping in time it will be free on Prime.
Having read the book a few years ago this should be a good movie.
IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18108824...
Parents Guide
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18108824...
When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.
Trivia
When Iris (Naomi Watts) visits Walter's (Bill Murray) book publisher, some of Sigrid Nunez's other published books are visible upon the publisher's office desk.
Video on directing by Director James Hawes - 11 minutes
Don't take this as fact Barbara, but I hear that Rami Malek wanted to do the book. And I believe he is one of the producers on the film.
News!!Nothing on the Flavia De Luce series other than it will be a TV series and it will be presented at the Caanes Festival.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley is the first book of a soon to be 12 book series - so plenty of material to work with and expand the seasons. IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3115892/
Current article in Variety
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/sh...
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareIMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7130300/...
In Post - production
A film coming to Netflix in the fall of 2025
From Netflix
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/article...
Happy Easter everyone...
The Housemaid by Freida McFaddenFollows a struggling woman who is happy to start over as a housemaid for an affluent, elite couple.
This is in post-production now and is expected to show on Dec 25, 2025
Imdb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27543632...
When These Mountains Burn by David JoyNo time frame, but it does sound like it will be a movie and not a series. Joy himself is very involved in the production of this - saying he wants it to be 'accurate'.
No other info
IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=when%20t...
This is now out in theaters. I have not been to the show in quite some time, but this one may lure me there. A weekday afternoon in a quiet theater with a coke and popcorn may not be the worst way to spend a few hours.
Thanks Trisha. I will try to find time this weekend to look into these three shows.
This first season is bingeable and I have watched the first 3 episodes. Altho it is being billed as the replacement for Yellowstone - NOPE! A charming series in it's own right, but no Yellowstone. Yellowstone was grit from the first episode - Ransom Canyon pales in comparison. However, in the genre of the modern western, Ransom Canyon is entertaining, in my opinion, and worth the time to watch.
Well I backed up! I just watched The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) movie. I read the book in May of 2017. I remembered bits and pieces going into the movie, but remembered more as the movie played on. I think I would give it a 5 out of 10 for a rating. Not that it was a bad movie, but I did not the person who played Falk. For me he just did not fit the picture. I would much rather have preferred someone like Jeremy Renner, Kit Harrington or even Matt Damon - but Eric Bana made up like he is, just isn't my picture of Aaron Falk. I plan to watch Force of Nature: Dry 2 (which I read in Oct 2021) in the next few days and will report back once I do. (I will struggle thru Bana for a second film....blah! )
I watched this movie - one I have wanted to see for a long time. However... if I had not read the book this movie would not have made much sense. I was disappointed in the movie. It seemed to glaze over every important point of the book - which the book detailed very well. It is unusual the way it is shown - first hour from one POV, then the second hour it tries to redo everything from the first hour, but from someone else's POV. A lot of looking thru the eyes of the person speaking or acting, not looking at them like most movies do.
It felt to me like trying to reproduce a song - a very popular song. You start out well remembering the words - then you fumble a few lines - then finally you just hum instead of trying to sing the words. You are still carrying the tune, but the words evade you.
I would be really upset if I had put MGM+ streaming in just for this movie. Luckily, there is more on MGM that I plan to watch, or the cost of even a month for this movie would have been too much.
Skip the movie - read the book.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells which is the first book of the The Murderbot Diaries Series. There are seven books in the series and a number of novellas thrown in also. This will be a 10 episode series on Apple + starting May 16, 2025.
A security android struggles with emotions and free will while balancing dangerous missions and desire for isolation, evading detection of its self-hacking as it finds its place.
No idea how many seasons will appear or if each book is one season or the books are spread out thru the 10 episodes of the one season. Time will tell.
IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30444310...
Series also known as:
Journal d'un Assasynth
Killerbot
Los diarios de Matabot
Jurnal de Asasint
Katilbot Günlükleri
Дневники Киллербота
Slepkabota dienasgrāmatasx
Щоденники Вбивцебота
Öldöklő-naplók ciklusnak
Z deníků robokata
厭世機器人
머더봇 다이어리
บันทึกบอตสังหาร
יומני רובורצח
ربات آدمکش
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreightNothing yet, but in development
IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2917684/...
Thanks Barb for the update. Not much change on IMDb...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14786934...
...other than this will show on Prime and the first season has 8 episodes and they are going right into filming season two.
I see no release date yet.
Here is an article I found...
https://movieweb.com/jamie-lee-curtis...
A piece of trivia
The show just added Charlie B. Foster to the cast. Jodie Foster’s son will be portraying the recurring character, Wingo, who is a morgue assistant, on the crime drama.
TriviaThe actress who plays Frances in childhood is played by Melissa McCarthy's daughter Vivian Falcone.
Goofs
Set in California, the series was filmed in Australia. Giveaways are the presence of Australian banyan trees (with the tall ribbon-like roots) that are not native to California, the moon which appears "upside down" in the Southern Hemisphere from how it would appear in California in the Northern Hemisphere, and Australian-style power outlets in which the upper two holes are angled instead of straight.
