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(pull-quote for the poster, “Not terrible! – Kymm Zuckert”)

Because this all-star cast included Roddy McDowall, my favourite actor from when I was 10 until I was 30 or so, and who still has a special place in my heart.

Don’t wait until you don’t feel well, watch it now, it is everything.

I ended up choosing The Mystery of the 13th Guest on TCM because, all together now, it is only an hour long!

It is a weird little film, performances by British Invasion groups of their songs from 1964 and 1965.

It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this movie, I am just entirely taken in by the story, the acting, the atmosphere, all of it.

It’s a fun movie, grisly murders aside, and, as a person of Belgian descent, I particularly enjoy Poirot doggedly correcting everyone accusing him of being French throughout the entire film.

There aren’t a huge number of female voices, I’m trying to say. I mean, you talk to who is available, but Judy Collins is only mentioned in passing and Joni Mitchell not at all.

Bill Plympton was such a face of animation in the ’90s, and of course I saw all of his shorts on MTV, but never any of his full-length features.

So, remember yesterday when I said that it was going to be all TCM from now on? I clearly lied.