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Just some thoughts on this month’s happenings:

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Dish of the Day

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

Monday, February 26, 2024

Today 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

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Dish of the Day (A Long Good Friday Edition)

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

Friday, February 23, 2024

Today on TCM:

Otto Preminger’s directed 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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Dish of the Day

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

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Noir City now taking place in Seattle, Washington is running until February 22nd. On Tuesday, February 20th an ultra rare showing of CC Hidden Gem #42, Black Tuesday (1954, a 35mm print)

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Dish of the Day

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

Monday, February 12, 2024

Currently available on Watch TCM (until February 17th):

What better way for film lovers to celebrate cinema's vast diversity after watching so many hard-hitting dramas, than to partake in the light-hearted, almost make-believe world of a Princess' Roman Holiday?

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