The Cinema Cafe

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

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Today on TCM:

There have been quite a few movies centred around boxing over the years from 1937’s Kid Galahad to 2018’s Creed II with plenty of standouts in-between such as 1947’s Body and Soul, 1956’s Somebody Up There Likes Me, 1962’s Requiem for a Heavyweight, 1972’s Fat City and 1980’s Raging Bull. None of these, however, get as straight to the punchline as 1949’s knockout noir The Set-Up, previously reviewed here and happening again Thursday, September 10 at 10 am PDT.

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

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Today on TCM:

Umberto D. (1952) is a previous TCM recommendation here.

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

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Today on TCM:

In 1966, one of the more challenging films to face off against the Production Code (mentioned in Exploring the Artefacts #3: Code Breakers) was that year’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, reviewed here, remarkably delivering all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own.

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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

Monday, September 7, 2026

Today on TCM:

A “Street” worth visiting is John Sturges’ masterfully directed film noir, 1950's Mystery Street reviewed here.

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

Friday, September 4, 2026

Saturday (September 5th) on TCM:

Make way for the rapturous Stanley Donen directed musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), reviewed here, Saturday, September 5th at 9 am PDT.

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

Thursday, September 3, 2026

In Auckland, New Zealand, Academy Cinemas is presenting Repulsion (1965), on Friday, September 4th at 6:15 pm.

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

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Currently available at Watch TCM (until September 5th):

Next up is a “Street” fellow travellers on the road to exciting new film noir discoveries do no want to miss.

Film noir has few representatives as dourly defeatist or as forcefully communicative on the subject of human relations than 1945's Scarlet Street, previously reviewed here.

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

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema will present The Godfather Part III aka The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990) on Tuesday, September 1st at 8:35 pm.