My Current Interest

               It’s getting harder and harder to find channels that do not have political commercials.   This is why, more and more, I am finding myself watching films I have never heard of on TCM .   I watch TCM anyways, but usually it’s for a film I already know or have heard about for quite some time.   Torch Song Trilogy was a film I knew absolutely nothing about.   I saw it in my TV listings, and as it starred Harvey Fierstein, I thought I would give it a try.   The film was on late so I figured I would watch it for a few minutes before I went to bed just to see what the film was all about.   I ended up watching the whole thing.                        Arnold (Harvey Fierstein) is a female impersonator in the early 1970s.   Looking for love and acceptance, Arnold is th...

Image provided by Acorn TV/All3Media.              As much as I love mysteries, I am surprised to say The Brokenwood Mysteries took me awhile to get into.   I believe there are two main reasons for this.   First, before I started the series, I heard it compared to Midsomer Murders .   With this in mind, I came into this series thinking the mysteries were going to be as weird and quirky as they are on Midsomer .   They are not.   The Brokenwood mysteries are much more straight forward with not only the methods of the murders but also the reasons behind them.   Second, I watched the first season episodes spread very far apart.   With probably a month or more between each one, I kept having to re-familiarize myself with the characters and what happened in the past episodes.   The second season, however, I had to get from the library .   With such a short time to watch all four...

Image provided by Acorn/RLJE .           I am now done with yet another series.  Not done in the sense that I’m simply waiting for more DVDs to be released, but done because the entire series has finished.   New Tricks ended after twelve seasons.   With the completion of the last DVD, I have seen, to my knowledge, every episode ever made.   Since the last time I wrote about this series a lot has happened.   Let me catch you up.         The Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad started with four members: retired police officers Jack Halford (James Bolam), Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman), and Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong); as well as current police officer Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman).   For many years this was the team.   Then Jack found out he was terminally ill and moved to France.   Steve McAndrew (Denis Lawson) came from Scotland an...