Teresa reviews the Hercule Poirot TV pilot from 1962 and wonders what would have happened if this serious take on the Belgian detective became a series. Fidelity to text: 4 thieves Despite showing Poirot moving to the U.S. and living out of his limo, the episode is remarkably close to the short story. Quality of […]
Bill reviews The Pleasure Garden (1925), Alfred Hitchcock’s debut movie, and thanks a film pirate for preserving this bit of cinematic history. (c)2025 by Bill Peschel Quality of the movie: 3 Charlestons Even in the state it’s in, you can still follow the story and be in turn amused, teary, and shocked. Hitchcockian: .5 Hitches […]
Bill reviews Der Hund von Baskerville (1914) and while visually interesting really needed some of D.W. Griffith’s innovations. Fidelity to text: ½ hound Nothing like the novel. Holmes is a gun-toting sleuth, Watson’s an old man living in the basement, and the Hound is a big ole friendly dog. Quality of movie: 1 hound Melodramatic, […]
Sorry about that, folks, but we just realized we hadn’t applied! Yes, publishers can be idiots. We’ll still attend, but as Christmas shoppers, not as vendors. (Which is not a bad thing, because we were planning on making this our last appearance at the show.) Love to you all, and I hope you aren’t too […]
I’m really thrilled to see this. Kemper Donovan, the host of the All About Agatha podcast, hosted a panel in which Agatha movie and TV adaptations battled it out for the title of Best of All. The event has been released as a podcast episode. Admittedly, I was a bit worried about how Teresa would […]
Teresa reviews They Came to Baghdad (1952), a Studio One TV version of the novel, and feels like she wandered into a time capsule. Fidelity to text: 2½ spies The main plot points of this very complicated spy story made it on screen. (c)2024 by Teresa Peschel Read more of Teresa’s Agatha Christie movie reviews […]
Bill reviews The Dying Detective (1921) and found the 30-minute short wasting away as well. (c) 2024 Bill Peschel Fidelity to text: 1 injections The few title cards fail to convey important parts of the story, and the last-minute “twist” is baffling and illogical. Quality of film: 1 injection Headache-inducing jerky camera movements and damaged […]
Recently, Teresa appeared on the “All About Agatha” podcast, where she and host Kemper Donovan talked about Christie movie adaptations. But it wasn’t just a conversation about “Agatha Christie, She Watched.” Kemper decided to go down the list of Poirot and Miss Marple movies and choose the best and worst for each portrayer: Peter Ustinov […]
We’re back again. Bill published Escape to HighTower as an eBook to go with our gorgeous trade paperback. It’s available for sale at Amazon and, if you’re a member of Kindle Unlimited, you can read it for free in KU along with my other three Odessa Moon novels. If you’re not familiar with Kindle Unlimited, […]
The Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Teresa for their podcast! Both of us really, but me mostly because I wrote “Agatha Christie, She Watched” and Bill turned my reviews into the fabulous book. So when we do a podcast interview, I do most of the talking and Bill fills in the gaps. If you […]