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Coming up at 8:00 on AMC: The Searchers, John Ford/John Wayne post-heroic western. Often cited as the peak of the genre.


- alex 11-25-2007 3:56 am [link] [add a comment]

Nothing in the children’s entertainment of today, candy-colored animation hopped up on computer tricks, can prepare young or old for this frightening glimpse of simpler times. Back then — as on the very first episode, which aired on PBS Nov. 10, 1969 — a pretty, lonely girl like Sally might find herself befriended by an older male stranger who held her hand and took her home. Granted, Gordon just wanted Sally to meet his wife and have some milk and cookies, but . . . well, he could have wanted anything. As it was, he fed her milk and cookies. The milk looks dangerously whole.

- linda 11-19-2007 9:01 pm [link] [1 comment]

with the directv hr20 settop pvr & dsl, one can download movies to the hard drive. mostly free. five thousand, three hundred titles.
- mark 11-19-2007 9:07 am [link] [add a comment]

withnail and i
is on tcm at midnight.
- dave 11-18-2007 1:53 am [link] [add a comment]

i just watched the latest season ender for curbed. what a sweet ending! dream sequence? i dont want the blacks to ever go away.


- bill 11-15-2007 11:13 pm [link] [1 comment]

looks to be a fairly interesting night of more obscure crime dramas on tcm chosen by la confidential writer james ellroy.
- dave 11-14-2007 2:05 am [link] [add a comment]

a good wine movie : the secret of sant vittoria on tcm now
- bill 11-03-2007 5:40 am [link] [add a comment]

elevator to the gallows on tcm now


- bill 10-24-2007 4:18 am [link] [add a comment]

gary mule deer or steven wright


- bill 10-22-2007 2:21 am [link] [add a comment]

someone get cheney down here

- linda 10-19-2007 5:39 pm [link] [add a comment]