1 2018

This week on TCM they spotlight science fiction, Fredric March, musicals, and Easter.

Talkin’ Pictures: Virginia and Bianca Riff Riffraff (Podcast 9)

This week we discuss bad comedies from the 1960’s. We discuss Island of Love (1963), Goodbye, Charlie (1964), and The Impossible Years (1968).

Movie Trope Thursday: Complete Monster

Judge Thatcher: But you have no human feeling? My daughter is dying!
Dr. Richard Vollin: Death hasn’t the same significance for me as it has for you.
~The Raven (1935)

Riffraff: Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

I guess “Adults Clearly in Their Mid-20’s from Outer Space” wasn’t a bankable enough title?

Today’s Underrated Actor Spotlight: Laird Cregar

Cregar died when he was only thirty, despite often playing roles of older men. He could have been a great noir or horror film star.

I Like to Recognize the Tune: The Gold Diggers Song (We’re in the Money)

An unlikely song for the Depression.

Weekly TCM Suggestions: 3/19 2018 – 3/25 2018

TCM’s schedule this week includes war films, melodramas, adventure flicks, film noirs, etc.

Talkin’ Pictures: Virginia and Bianca Riff Riffraff Episode #1 (Podcast 8)

Sincerely Yours (1955), Looking for Love (1964), and When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965).

Movie Trope Thursday: Small Reference Pools

“After all, it’s not as if we were Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. We did have careers apart from each other.” ~Ginger Rogers on her partnership with Fred Astaire

Riffraff: The Pumaman (1980)

Don’t you just hate all those flying pumas?

The Tinseltown Twins

Two Film Buffs Are Better Than One

Month: March 2018