Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
My penultimate suggested TCM showing to watch is the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business (1931) previously reviewed here. I have also posted 2 famous scenes from this film, Capturing a Golden Moment #6 and Capturing a Golden Moment #12. The shenanigans will commence at TCM Wednesday, December 31 at 1 pm PST.
(From left) Thelma Todd, Groucho Marx, Zeppo Marx, Harry Woods
TCM's current schedule can be seen by clicking on the above image. To confirm the correct Pacific Standard (West Coast) showtime information, subtract 3 hours from the Eastern Standard (East Coast) showtime listed on TCM’s schedule.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, December 29, 2025
Today on TCM:
I have written a few words about this next showing, part of TCM’s tribute to director/producer Martin Ritt, in the first of a series on impressive opening sequences entitled Main Title Inspirations No. 1: The Brotherhood.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, December 25, 2025
In London, United Kingdom The Prince Charles Cinema is presenting Top Ten Western #2 The Searchers (1956, a 4k Restoration) on Friday, December 26th at 2:30 pm.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until December 30th):
Please have a read here and see why 1933’s Gold Diggers of 1933 is as enjoyable and pertinent as the shows these spirited characters struggle to produce.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until January 1st):
Anyone who wishes to enjoy the Holiday spirit might want to pay a little visit to Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), previously reviewed here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Today on TCM:
Viewers who prefer recent, big budget cinematic fare may find Steven Spielberg’s 2005 remake War of the Worlds more accessible and satisfying than its 1953 counterpart, but not I.
My aunt Marilyn Granas, who was Shirley Temple’s first “stand-in”, a co-star in some of Shirley’s “Baby Burlesque” shorts, the star of avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s first publicly shown film Escape Episode (1947), and later a casting agent, has passed away at age 98.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, December 12, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
‘Noiristas’, seeking a slick and twisty British Neo-noir from Hammer Studios, need look no further than Hidden Gem #35 Cash on Demand, released in 1961.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until December 16th):
“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:
Monday, December 8, 2025
Today on TCM:
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.
