Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, November 21, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
If I was in charge of choosing a single film noir for someone only willing to see one in the entire canon, I would select Double Indemnity (1944) as its most fulfilling and accomplished representative. It has been previously reviewed in Opening Up a Treasure: Double Indemnity. Thoughts of adultery, greed and murder will manifest themselves on TCM Saturday, November 22 at 5 pm PST.
Next up is a film not often shown on TCM and a review which is sure to have some “unfriend” me in our Facebook chat room: 1974’s Chinatown. “It’s okay with me” if one has a go at this critic but please see the film first and have a read of what I actually wrote before doing so. Chinatown was previously reviewed here and can be visited Saturday, November 22 at 7 pm PST.
(From left) Jack Nicholson, John Huston
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
My next TCM recommendation is a fairly well known thriller from the 1970s starring Dustin Hoffman. Marathon Man (1976) also happens to be one of this site’s Top Ten Guilty Treasures here and will run on TCM Wednesday, November 19 at 7:15 pm PST.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, November 17, 2025
Today on TCM:
Dark Passage (1947) is a wildly engrossing film noir that combines the best of romance with the best of noir in the best location for both: San Francisco.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, November 14, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
There have been quite a few movies centred around boxing over the years from 1937’s Kid Galahad to 2018’s Creed II with plenty of standouts in-between such as 1947’s Body and Soul, 1956’s Somebody Up There Likes Me, 1962’s Requiem for a Heavyweight, 1972’s Fat City and 1980’s Raging Bull. None of these, however, get as straight to the punchline as 1949’s knockout noir The Set-Up, previously reviewed here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
MGM's 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain was not adapted from a theatrical production though the film was later turned into one being first presented on stage in 1983.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, November 10, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
My enthusiasm for the next film may be “icier” than say Howard Hughes’, however, viewers may find enough intrigue, suspense and supportive factors to make the journey to Ice Station Zebra (1968), previously reviewed here and commencing at TCM Tuesday, November 11th at 7 pm PST, worth their while.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
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.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
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.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
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.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
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.
