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Wednesday, December 24, 2025
In San Francisco, California, The Roxie Theatre will present Children of Paradise (1945, a Newly Restored print) on Thursday, December 25th.
Click on the film’s title in grey for the review and on the above image for more information on this screening.
All responses are not only welcomed but encouraged in the comments section below.
Hope to see you tomorrow.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
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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.
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
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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.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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This will be a really bad day for anyone who encounters Them! (the giant mutant ants that is).
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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.
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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.
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Thursday, December 11, 2025
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“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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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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The next TCM recommendation has been reviewed in Opening Up a Treasure: The Night of the Hunter.
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Monday, December 8, 2025
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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.
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Friday, December 5, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
After her breakthrough role in Joseph von Sternberg's The Blue Angel made in Germany, Marlene Dietrich made six more films with the autocratic director in the U.S. The Scarlet Empress (1934), previously reviewed here, is arguably the duo’s most accomplished.
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Thursday, December 4, 2025
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Next is a sterling example of how to present complex and enthralling characters, all of whom develop naturally while still holding our intense fascination: Citizen Kane (1941).
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Few biopics are as inspirational as Michael Curtiz’ Jim Thorpe - All American (1951), a previous TCM recommendation here, and one that can be appreciated again Thursday, December 4 at 11:15 am PST.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
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John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) is a film I have mixed feelings about.
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Monday, December 1, 2025
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Both tension and fear are at their zenith in Cape Fear (1962) with Robert Mitchum once again playing southern bred evil incarnate as he did in 1955’s The Night of the Hunter.
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
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Viewers who dare to have their imaginations stretched considerably should be rewarded Where Eagles Dare (1968), previously reviewed here.
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