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Christopher Bollen on Gays Reading
Christopher Bollen’s Havoc was one of the books on my Best Mysteries, Thrillers, and True Crime of 2024 list, so I was thrilled to see he’d been on an episode of the podcast Gays Reading. Bollen chats with the host, Jason Blitman, about the book, but I also love that it’s just a bunch of random conversations (like why does Bollen have so many robes?!) Fans of Simon Doonan will always enjoy the episode!
Also on Gays Reading recently: our very own Jeff and Rebecca!
The U.K.’s First Gaelic Prestige Crime Drama Series
I am super jealous of everyone who can watch An t-Eilean (The Island), “a prestige crime drama set on the Western Isles of Scotland” from the BBC.” While there is no date yet for a US release, I am keeping my fingers crossed it’ll be a show that makes its way over because I will immediately drop everything to watch it.
Conclave Is Now Streaming
If you intentionally, or accidentally, missed seeing Conclave in theaters, you can now stream it on Peacock! Adapted from Robert Harris‘ thriller of the same name, the film just won a Best Screenplay Golden Globe, has 12 BAFTA nominations, and had a bunch of positive reviews—if those are things that matter to you.
Attica Locke!!!!
If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a bit, you know I’m a huge fan of Attica Locke—if you’ve yet to read her completed Highway 59 trilogy, go do that right this second, I’ll wait! If you’re a podcast listener, she chatted with Robert Justice on the Crime Writers of Color Podcast episode, Attica Locke & Highway 59, where she talked about her novel writing (spoiler free), the adaptation currently being written (!), and her day job (Hollywood writing).
Some of the great shows she’s worked on that are worth watching: Empire, When They See Us, From Scratch, and Little Fires Everywhere. Bonus: the last two are adaptations of equally great books!
First Movie Shown in Theaters and Prisons Simultaneously
These “firsts” are always bittersweet in showing the failings of our society, but at least we’re finally doing better? Anyways, the film Sing Sing—based on “The Sing Sing Follies” by John H. Richardson and Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code by Brent Buell—will be the first movie to be released in movie theaters and prisons at the same time. “The movie’s groundbreaking release is a collaboration between film distributor A24, RTA, and Edovo, a nonprofit that provides incarcerated people in over 1,100 correctional facilities with free access to educational and vocational programs via tablets. When Sing Sing is re-released in theaters on January 17, it will also be available to nearly a million incarcerated viewers in the U.S. in 1,100 correctional facilities (excluding the real-life Sing Sing, which doesn’t yet have access to Edovo tablets).”
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