For those of you who belong to any of the western branches of Christianity, we're still a week and a day away from Easter. None of the Easter stuff yet on any of the movie channels; ABC's annual airing of The Ten Commandments is not until Saturday, Apr. 4. For some reason, I thought they always aired it the weekend of Palm Sunday. I've got it on DVD or Blu-ray somewhere, but I'd have to dig through my boxes of DVDs. Most of the stuff is still boxed up from when I moved three years ago with a few exceptions or stuff I've bought since the move. I've been meaning to watch more of it, mind you, but then there's that backlog of stuff on my DVR that actually expires....
And then there's the stuff on the streaming services. Someplace else somebody mentioned a young Rebecca De Mornay as a hottie, which prompted me to look up The Trip to Bountiful to recommend that, and find out that it is in fact for the time being available on Tubi, albeit as always with ads. However, there was another Oscar-nominated movie that I've been wanting to get off my list of Oscar-nominated stuff to watch that was recommended, albeit not with De Mornay. That film is Cross Creek, about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of The Yearling. This also made me think of another Mary Steenburgen movie, Melvin and Howard, which is not currently available on any of the streaming platforms.
TCM's full April schedule appears to be out now, which necessitated my going through t to see which movies are on my DVR that I haven't done posts on yet. I've already scheduled a couple of them, but I've got a couple more to watch and then put up posts about. Since my scheduling of draft posts is already four weeks out, that means posts are going to get moved around. So once again there's my caveat of checking the box guide listings to make certain the airdate and time I've put up for a post in conjuction with a movie airing soon.
Surprisingly, there are still some Fox movies I haven't blogged about before that are showing up on the FXM schedule, which means I get to record them and do a post about them again sometime in the future. The next such example is Ingrid Bergman's second Oscar-winning role in Anastasia, which will be on in the wee hours of tomorrow at 3:00 AM. I think I've done posts on both of the following two movies, but starting off the Retro block on Monday, March 31 will be A Letter to Three Wives, with The Ox-Bow Incident on at 6:00 AM.
Obviously I should have mentioned the passing of Chuck Norris last week at 86, even if he wasn't exactly the biggest movie star out there. Instead, he got cast into a lot of low-budget stuff especially at Cannon, as mentioned in the wonderful Electric Boogaloo documentary on Cannon.
There's also Valerie Perrine, who died on Monday at the age of 82 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. TCM ran a documentary on her a few years back that was interesting. Slaughterhouse-Five is available on some of the subscription streaming services, but I don't actually have subscriptions to any of them.
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