TV

#1513: Don’t Tell Me There’s No Hope At All – Occasional Comforting Discernment in Monk Season 6 (2007-08)

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‘Hey,’ readers this blog aren’t saying ‘it’s been a while since Jim wrote about Monk, in which Tony Shalhoub plays an OCD-afflicted ex-police detective in San Francisco.’ Yeah, well I have them all on DVD — look, I scanned in the cover above and everything — but what I don’t have is a DVD player.

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#1122: “I think an ambulance might be a bit optimistic.” – Death Goes by Bus in Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017) [Scr. Jason Cook; Dir. Simon Delaney]

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In much the same way that movies like Murder on the Orient Express (1974/2017) draw in audiences with their roster of famous names, this humorous take on the murder mystery first captured my attention on account of the sheer wealth of British comedic talent it had attracted. But, like, is it any good?

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#1107: “You really are a sly one, Lieutenant.” – Sour Grapes Aplenty in Columbo: Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) [Scr. Stanley Ralph Ross; Dir. Leo Penn]

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I’ve not watched Columbo — in which Peter Falk’s eponymous, crumpled Lieutenant outwits murderers the viewer has watched commit and then cover up their crimes — in years, and would probably have gone years more but for stumbling over two references in a week to ‘Any Old Port in a Storm’ (1973) apparently being the very pinnacle of the long-running series. So, let’s take a look.

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