Just a Cineast

A short that TCM ran as a TCM Extra in a time slot after something else that I watched recently was Roast-Beef and Movies . A movie stud...

Now that we're in the first full week of a new month, it's once again time for a new Star of the Month. This time out, we don'...

I think it's been a while since I've done a post on a movie from that year when Hollywood finally completed the transition from sil...

Even though it's the Independence Day holiday in the United States, this being a Saturday TCM is continuing with the Two for One progr...

There were 16 movies made in the MGM Hardy family series, if you count the one from the late 1950s after Lewis Stone died. Surprisingly, I...

George Brent was TCM's Star of the Month back in March, and I recorded a bunch of his movies that TCM ran. One that they didn't sh...

Hollywood movies from the Depression era on business are certainly an interesting watch, as the impression given of the way big business wa...

TCM got the rights to the Looney Tunes (or maybe the Warner Bros. cartoons more generally; I'm not certain) shorts some months back, wh...

TCM ran a double feature of films with Telly Savalas some months back; not having seen either of the movies I decided to record both of the...

Another of the movies that I recorded from the September 2025 TCM salute to the UCLA Film and Television Archive was Desert Hearts . It...