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

Monday, November 3, 2025

Today 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:

Friday, October 31, 2025

Today on TCM:

My final must-see recommendation for the month is the 1932 version of The Mummy previously reviewed here.

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

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Today on TCM:

Also in this month’s lineup is Todd Browning's shockingly bold and terrifying 1932 film, Freaks, previously reviewed here.

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

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Today on TCM:

Immediately following The Prowler is another intense film starring Van Heflin: Patterns (1956).

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

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Tomorrow on TCM:

Here is another film noir with a central character whose emotions have apparently consumed his common sense and compromised his moral integrity: 1951’s The Prowler, previously reviewed here.

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

Monday, October 27, 2025

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The more psychologically disturbing, (than monstrously horrifying) 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has Spencer Tracy in the title role.

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

Friday, October 24, 2025

Sunday on TCM…

The mattress is soft and there're hangers in the closet and stationary with ‘Bates' Motel’ printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious.”

Still another Hitchcock artistic triumph was, at the time (including throughout its primary creator’s career), the most audacious cinematic assault ever perpetrated on the movie going public or the Motion Picture Production Code for that matter. 1960's Psycho was previously reviewed here.

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

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Tomorrow on TCM…

Next up is The Fury (1978), a film for which I have a few not so kind words to bestow, as well as some positive thoughts to share regarding its score, in a soundtrack recommendation previously written here.

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

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until November 7th):

One of the finest westerns ever made is Top Ten Western #4, Sam Peckinpah's elegiac Ride the High Country (1962).