The Cinema Cafe

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Currently available at Watch TCM (until June 10th):

Just letting viewers know that TCM is showing Around the World in 80 Days (1956), previously reviewed here.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Currently available at Watch TCM (until July 2nd):

“Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride... the naked and the dead.”

Next up is Richard Fleischer’s little powder keg of a film noir Armored Car Robbery (1950), which was previously recommended here.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Monday, June 1, 2026

Tomorrow on TCM:

Despite its ridiculously hard to follow plot, this recommendation's wildly entertaining detective yarn is worth waking up for.

Previously reviewed here, The Big Sleep (1946) will awaken Tuesday, June 2nd at 7:15 pm PDT.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Friday, May 29, 2026

Tonight and this weekend on TCM:

If you haven’t already seen the hyperbolic The Boys from Brazil (1978), previously reviewed here, be prepared for one wild and wacky premise.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Tomorrow on TCM:

Both tension and fear are at their zenith in Cape Fear (1962) with Robert Mitchum once again playing southern bred evil incarnate as he did in 1955’s The Night of the Hunter.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

In Culpeper Virginia, The Library of Congress at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus Theater is presenting The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, a 35mm print) on Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 pm.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Currently available at Watch TCM (until June 25th):

Next up, is a WW II film that can only be defined by its setting. There are just too many dispersed ideas regarding tone and perspective to communicate what kind of film Kelly’s Heroes (1970) is, let alone how any of its numerous genre types are successfully represented.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Monday, May 25, 2026

Today on TCM:

Viewers who dare to have their imaginations stretched considerably should be rewarded Where Eagles Dare (1968), previously reviewed here and appearing on TCM’s radar Monday, May 25th at 12:15 pm PDT.

Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:

Friday, May 22, 2026

Sunday on TCM:

TCM will show The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), an incisive look into how each of three returning servicemen adapt to civilian life at home, after World War II.