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Dish of the Day

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

Monday, December 29, 2025

Today on TCM:

I have written a few words about this next showing, part of TCM’s tribute to director/producer Martin Ritt, in the first of a series on impressive opening sequences entitled Main Title Inspirations No. 1: The Brotherhood.

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Dish of the Day

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

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until January 1st):

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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"Now Listen to Me..."

Just some thoughts on current happenings:

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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, 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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End Credits #107: Cinema's 2023 Lost Treasures Owen Roizman, Carole Cook, Gina Lolabrigida, Burt Bacharach, Gerald Fried, Tom Sizemore, Barry Newman, Treat Williams, Glenda Jackson

These are some of Cinema's sad departures of 2023 taken from my personal notes soon after the events took place:

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Dish of the Day

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

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Currently available at Watch TCM (until December 16th):


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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