Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, April 10, 2026
This weekend on TCM:
My first TCM film to see this weekend is the late Mike Hodges’ 1971 Neo-noir triumph Get Carter which is reviewed as a Blu-ray recommendation here. Viewers can get Carter Saturday, April 11th at 5 pm PDT.
Michael Caine
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?, previously reviewed here. This film remarkably delivers all of the guttural force of its theatrical origin while creating a more intimate, and cinema appropriate, dynamic all its own. Let the “games” begin Sunday, April 12th at 12:30 pm PDT.
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
This little film noir provides a most satisfying sensation: Tension (1949), a prior TCM recommendation here, which can be felt Wednesday, April 8th at 9:15 am PDT.
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.
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.
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.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
Next up is Baby Face (1933), the Pre-Code sensation starring Barbara Stanwyck, reviewed here, and making her spirited appearance on Wednesday, March 18 at 3:30 pm PDT.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
TCM will present a film starring Burt Lancaster, director John Frankenheimer’s action-packed and thought provoking The Train (1964), a previous Blu-ray recommendation here.
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.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Tomorrow on TCM:
This next must-see TCM film recommendation is Italian director Vittorio De Sica's neo-realist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (1948),one of the most emotionally devastating films of all time (See: Top Ten: World Cinema Treasures).
