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Dish of the Day

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

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Today on TCM:

This next TCM recommendation is The Last Picture Show (1971), one of the most astute explorations of small town American life, previously reviewed here. This is one of the finest films of the ‘70s and can be seen Thursday, April 2nd at 8:30 pm PDT.

(From left) Timothy Bottoms, Ben Johnson, Sam Bottoms

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Hope to see you tomorrow.

A.G.

Dish of the Day


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

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Today on TCM:

Later on Thursday is Alfred Hitchcock’s most profound cinematic storytelling 1958’s Vertigo with all three of his often employed, previously mentioned collaborators working at the peak of their considerable powers.

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Dish of the Day

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

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Tomorrow 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.

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Dish of the Day

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

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

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

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 magnum opus Apocalypse Now (the “Theatrical Version” reviewed here) has been canonised by its opening alone: perhaps the most hypnotically captivating introduction in the history of cinema.

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Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)

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

Friday, March 6, 2026

This weekend on TCM:


Besieged with production problems, the film 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, reviewed here and showing on TCM Saturday, March 7th at 7:30 pm PST.

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