Just a Cineast

Back in the 1970s, producer Ely Landau tried a bold experiment of taking prominent, mostly modern playwrights, and producing more minimalis...

It may seem hard to believe, but it's been 28 years to the day since the release of Grosse Point Blank . I have it on my DVR since one...

About twenty years ago, TCM produced a relatively brief documentary titled So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM , which discusses how ...

Another of the type of movie that I've said I wound up with a bunch of on my DVR that I need to watch and do posts on before they expir...

Another of the foreign-language films that I needed to watch off my DVR before it expired was one from German arthouse director Rainer Wern...

TCM is doing a morning and part of the afternoon of Val Lewton's films tomorrow, April 8. I happen to have one of those on my DVR, so ...

Red Skelton and Lucille Ball in Du Barry Was a Lady (midnight between April 14/15) As we're in a new month, it's time for a new ...

I was looking at the upcoming TCM schedule, and noticed that tomorrow, April 7, at 8:00 AM, you can catch the Howard Keel musical version o...

Another of the movies that I needed to watch before it expired from my cloud DVR is an MGM World War II morale-builder, Assignment in Britt...

I didn't pay much attention to the 2024 selection of films to the National Film Registry when those selections were announced back in D...