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Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
Next is Strange Cargo which I previously listed as one of my TOP TEN Guilty Treasures.
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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, July 11, 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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Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Today on TCM:
Next up is the remarkably understated, albeit compelling, racial drama Intruder in the Dust released in 1949.
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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, July 4, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
1972's The Getaway is not nearly as meaningful or resonant as some of Sam Peckinpah's earlier films; still, as a genre piece, it punches solidly above its pay grade.
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Dish of the Day
Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Today on TCM:
Next on my list of films to watch is King Kong (1933), who's scheduled to make his grand entrance on Tuesday, July 1st at 1 pm PDT.
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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, June 27, 2025
Today on TCM:
A top of the line screwball comedy released the same year as Sullivan’s Travels and, even more remarkably, from the same writer (co-writer here along with Monckton Hoffe) / director is The Lady Eve (1941) reviewed here.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
A pre-code charmer sure to delight fans is Blonde Crazy (1931) with Jimmy Cagney and Joan Blondell enchanting as a couple of cons.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Today on TCM:
TCM is having a rare showing of Martin Scorsese’s 1993 The Age of Innocence on Tuesday, June 24th at 5 pm PDT.
Dish of the Day
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Monday, June 23, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
“Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride... the naked and the dead.”
Next up is Richard Fleischer’s little powder keg of a film noir Armored Car Robbery (1950), previously recommended here and set to explode Tuesday, June 24th at 2:30 pm PDT.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, June 20, 2025
This weekend on TCM:
In 1967, British Director John Boorman nailed the American crime milieu with the precision of his film's title, Point Blank, a Neo-noir masterpiece fortified with style and driven by purpose.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Today on TCM:
Top Ten Western #8 High Noon is a simple but tightly constructed narrative, one of the few that unravels almost completely in real time.
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
This will be a really bad day for anyone who encounters Them! (the giant mutant ants that is).
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