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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.
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Monday, August 31, 2026
Currently available at Watch TCM (until September 1st):
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is an incisive look into how each of three returning servicemen adapt to civilian life at home after World War II.
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Friday, August 28, 2026
Sunday (August 30th) on TCM:
Beginning a highly recommended series of 4 films starring Joel McCrea is…
… Sullivan's Travels (1941). Preston Sturges masterfully wrote and directed Sullivan's Travels, a prior Blu-ray endorsement here.
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Thursday, August 27, 2026
Today on TCM:
“What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.”
All About Eve (1950) is really all about the spoken word and is a prior TCM recommendation here.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Today on TCM:
Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), is loaded with multi-faceted insights and hidden rumination on human relationships, providing viewers with much to ponder long after this tale of romantic obsession ends.
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Monday, August 24, 2026
Today on TCM:
Director Otto Preminger’s classic, 1944’s Laura, is the exacting director’s slick and assured amalgamation of mystery (whodunnit) and film noir (obsessive desire, gruesome murder etc) elements.
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Friday, August 21, 2026
Today and this weekend on TCM:
Stanley Kubrick took the entire film community, along with noir fans, by (a perfect) storm with his innovative 1956 take on the caper genre, The Killing previously recommended here.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
Besieged with production problems, and sometimes wrongfully criticised because of them, this next TCM recommendation is, nevertheless, an accomplished and splendorous piece of dramatically dynamic adventure storytelling: the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty, previously reviewed here, showing on TCM Thursday, August 20 at 10 am PDT.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Today on TCM:
Out of Africa is another Academy Award Winning film from the ‘80s (1985 to be exact) that I have been rather critical of.
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Monday, August 17, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
"Shoot a man for sleeping with someone's wife? That's silly. Half the town'd be wiped out."
My next TCM and previous Blu-ray recommendation is 1966's The Chase (reviewed here) happening Tuesday, August 18 at 4:30 am PDT.
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Friday, August 14, 2026
Today and this weekend on TCM:
A couple on their way to New York City are about to have a serious reality check in 1970’s “comedy” The Out-of-Towners, previously reviewed here, and happening Friday, August 14th at 5 pm PDT.
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
Today on TCM:
For those who might have missed last month’s presentation of Hidden Gem #10, They Won't Believe Me (1947)… rejoice.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Today on TCM:
Another recommendation starring Barbara Stanwyck is this underrated film noir, Sorry, Wrong Number (1948).
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Monday, August 10, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
A top of the line screwball comedy released the same year as Sullivan’s Travels and, even more remarkably, from the same writer (co-writer here along with Monckton Hoffe) / director is The Lady Eve (1941) reviewed here.
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Friday, August 7, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
1972's The Getaway, is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films; still, as a genre piece, it punches solidly above its pay grade.
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Thursday, August 6, 2026
Currently available at Watch TCM (until August 7th):
A pre-code charmer sure to delight fans is Blonde Crazy (1931) with Jimmy Cagney and Joan Blondell enchanting as a couple of cons.
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