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Friday, November 7, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
Another Hidden Gem (#3), is one of the most harshly realistic and harrowing depictions of war cinema has to offer and occurs in Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent a.k.a. Voskhoz hdeniye (1977) previously recommended here.
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
The multi-talented Gordon Parks made his directorial debut at age 57 with 1969's The Learning Tree based on his semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until November 7th):
Rarely does an atmosphere of such overpowering dread subsume a cinematic story so completely as it does 1943's The Seventh Victim.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
It's back to westerns with another Top Ten (#3) and Hidden Gem #19, Devil's Doorway.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Today on TCM:
Immediately following The Prowler is another intense film starring Van Heflin: Patterns (1956).
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Here is another film noir with a central character whose emotions have apparently consumed his common sense and compromised his moral integrity: 1951’s The Prowler, previously reviewed here.
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Monday, October 27, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
The more psychologically disturbing, (than monstrously horrifying) 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has Spencer Tracy in the title role.
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Friday, October 24, 2025
Sunday 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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Thursday, October 23, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM…
Next up is The Fury (1978), a film for which I have a few not so kind words to bestow, as well as some positive thoughts to share regarding its score, in a soundtrack recommendation previously written here.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until November 7th):
One of the finest westerns ever made is Top Ten Western #4, Sam Peckinpah's elegiac Ride the High Country (1962).
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until October 31st)…
… is an ultra rare showing of CC Hidden Gem #42, Black Tuesday (1954).
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Monday, October 20, 2025
Currently available at Watch TCM (until November 15th):
The expression "Don't judge a book by its cover" certainly applies to the film Kind Lady, a previous TCM recommendation here.
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Friday, October 17, 2025
Sunday 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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Thursday, October 16, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM…
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s more uncustomary, yet distinguished, offerings is 1953’s I Confess—previously reviewed here—which features a fervent, introspective performance from Montgomery Clift.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Today on TCM…
Another highly recommended film starring Joel McCrea is Sullivan's Travels (1941).
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Monday, October 13, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM…
Also on TCM’s agenda is the Neo-noir Bullitt (1968), one of Steve McQueen’s most iconic characterisations.
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