Well, I'm hopelessly behind, but, on the bright side, back in 2004 I'd crapped out by the end of January, so at least I'm "much improved," as the report cards used to say. I'm not ready to declare the blogging portion of the move-a-day project dead just yet, so here's some more capsules:


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OK, so two reviews a day didn't really work out. Let's go back to however many I can manage in one sitting...


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So, I've stopped using "weeks" in the title for these posts. I'm about 2 and a half weeks behind on blogging, and it's too much trouble to constantly go back and find out which week is which. At this point, I'm only 4 movies behind on viewing, (finished number 47 yesterday), so I really need to catch up on the reviews. Tomorrow is kind of busy, so ( Read more... )

Yes, still posting week four a week and a half later. Would have caught up this weekend, but fell severely ill. Nasty fluish chest cold thing. Bleh. I was going to do a quick best and worst of the month thing, too, but at this rate it'll be halfway through the following month before I go to it. Still worthwhile? Maybe so. I'll see how I feel after ( Read more... )

A day late, and more than a few bucks short, but what's that got to do with movie reviews?

( What is the law? Not to spill blood! Are we not men? )

Time for more previews of this month's ongoing focus on series films. Today you missed the "Lone Wolf" series (that's the early-'40's "reformed jewel thief solves mysteries, but not as well as Simon Templar" series, not the 1970's "disgraced samurai and child kill thousands of people" series) and the "Five Little Peppers" series, which appeared to ( Read more... )

Real quick, a brief view of tomorrow and Tuesday's series films showcased on TCM:

12 Monday
6:00 AM     Dick Tracy (1945)
      Dick is faced with a series of murders in which the victims all come from different social and economic backgrounds. Cast: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki. Dir: William A. Berke. BW-61 mins, TV-PG
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Our cable service went all screwy two nights ago, so no internets for me. (Plus, fuzzy TV picture. Hooray!) Hopefully fixed by tonight, but no guarantees. Add in no access from work and no desire last night to stop by the local coffeehouse (Jamie's General Bean, where I'm typing right now), and you end up with: LATE POST!!!!

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Well, crap. I thought they were running these movies Friday nights, but it turns out they're all day! Fortunately, they're starting with mostly crap. The good stuffs on tonight. Here's the list:

10:30 AM       Vampire, The (1957)
      An experimental treatment turns a small-town doctor into a ravening vampire. Cast: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth ( Read more... )

I thought I'd round out my first batch of reviews in my little project by mentioning a few more worthwhile films from 1930. Then I checked to find out how many films from 1930 were on DVD right now. The answer: 15, according to the IMDB. Wow. That's not many. There are probably a few more floating about in the public domain, and there are probably ( Read more... )