My Week in Media: March 5

Everything I read, listened to, and watched

My Week in Media: March 5
Book covers: The White Priory Murders; Brain Camp; Fence, Volume 2

Reading

The White Priory Murders, by John Dickson Carr

Brain Camp, written by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan, illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks

Fence, Volumes 1-4, written by C.S. Pacat, illustrated by Johanna the Mad


Movie posters: Demonia; Vertigo; The Psychic; Dead & Buried; Inferno; The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Watching

Demonia
Lucio Fulci, 1990

Vertigo (rewatch)
Alfred Hitchcock, 1958

The Psychic (also released as Seven Notes in Black)
Lucio Fulci, 1977

Dead & Buried (rewatch)
Gary Sherman, 1981

Inferno
Dario Argento, 1980

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Billy Wilder, 1970

So much Eyeball Stuff this week, good lord. Just when I tell myself I’m going to bang through all of the Hitchcock, Argento, and John Carpenter that I either haven’t seen or want to revisit… I start watching Lucio Fulci again. The Psychic/Seven Notes in Black was the biggest surprise—it was much more in the vein of a straight-up giallo than one of Fulci’s more gonzo gorefests, and we both absolutely loved it.

My fave Jimmy Stewart/Hitchcock movies in order: Rear Window, Rope, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much. I actively HATE The Man Who Knew Too Much, like, throw the ENTIRE thing down a well, please. Thumbs up to the 1934 version with Peter Lorre, though. And I know that a lot of folks will regard the Vertigo placement as blasphemy, but we like what we like, right?


Practical effects—versus CGI—will always have my heart. For whatever reason, claymation, scale models, and actors running around in big rubber suits just do it for me. Also, note The Doctor’s Spelunking Ascot. Fancy!

Watching

Television: Doctor Who
Doctor Who and the Silurians, 1970

There is a hilarious amount of Business Talk—like, people running a nuclear facility who squabble about how to deal with power outages and later, aliens—in this one, but for me it was especially notable for how much they sexed up Liz Shaw between the previous story arc and this one. In her first appearance, she had a big Scientist Lady bun and a short-but-still-sort-of-professional outfit. In this one, she’s styled to look much… softer—her hair is down and she’s basically dressed like she’s going to go out dancing.

Still adorable! Just maybe not so practical.


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Liz and the Brigadier (hubba hubba) in Spearhead from Space; softer, leggier Liz in a promo shot(?)

Podcasts: Listen to Sassy; Answer Me This; Sons & Sonsibility

Listening

Art, Culture, and History

Pop Culture Happy Hour
ICYMI
Maintenance Phase
Podcast Playlist
All Songs Considered
You’re Wrong About
Into It
Listen to Sassy
Answer Me This

Books & Language

By the Book
A Way with Words
If Books Could Kill

TV/Movies

Again with This
This Had Oscar Buzz
Extra Hot Great

Audiodramas & Actual Play D&D

The Storage Papers
Sons & Sonsibility (a Dungeons & Daddies Regency spin-off)

News

Up First


And now to start this week’s list!

Hope you got some good reading, watching, listening, writing, crafting, whatevering in this week.

Talk soon,
Leila