#NowWatching The Lure (2015, Poland) with Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszanska. 2 mermaids get a job at a Warsaw nightclub. They both fall in love with the house band's bass player. Golden fears that her sister's relationship will doom their dream of swimming to America.

I highly recommend this one.

#NowWatching Drive My Car (2021, Japan) with Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima. A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.

#NowWatching Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) with Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver. John Ford directed this fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

#NowWatching One Night In Miami... (2020) with Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr. A fictional account where Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.

I'm with the Cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=68gv...

#NowWatching A Summer Place (1959) with Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Richard Egan. A self-made successful businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own.

“While humanity seeks to become God in order to dominate others, God chooses to become man in order to free us from every form of slavery.” -Pope Leo XIV Christmas Eve Mass

#NowWatching The Godfather (1972) with Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan. The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

This is the only thing I got in the mail today. Merry Christmas to me!

#NowWatching It's A Wonderful Life (1946) with James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore. An angel is sent from Heaven to show a businessman a good time; but, he isn't interested.

#NowWatching Magnum Force (1973) with Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Burke Devlin (I mean, Mitchell Ryan). Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan pursues a conspiracy of vigilante cops, who are not above going beyond the law to kill San Francisco's undesirables.

Happy Winter solstice! May there be warm lights wherever you are.

#NowWatching Female Trouble (1974) with Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey. A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes. Happy Holidays!

#NowWatching Harold and Maude (1971), released on this day, 54 years ago. With Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon. Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

#NowWatching Miracle on 34th Street (1947) with Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, John Payne. Could the Macy's department store Santa really be Santa Claus? Some dodgy legal maneuvers may decide this case.

#NowWatching Kameradschaft (1931, Germany) with Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch. After WWI, a mine explosion on the French/German border causes people from both sides to forget their differences and look for survivors.

#NowWatching To Sleep With Anger (1990) with Danny Glover, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice. A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.

Last 2 pieces of Halloween candy (sniff). Until next summer, guys...

#NowWatching Dirty Harry (1971) with Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Andrew Robinson. When a killer calling himself "Scorpio" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.

Overhead shots like this fascinate me; with the gigantic cameras back then, I wonder how they rigged them... #42ndStreet #TCMParty

According to iMdb, Ruby Keeler's sisters, Gertrude and Helen, also appear in #42ndStreet as chorus girls, but I have no idea what they look like! #TCMParty

Louise Beavers! Everyone knows that her version of Imitation of Life (1934) is the superior version. #TCMParty

After her divorce from Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler didn't act in films for almost 30 years, until she resurfaced in the utterly bizarre The Phynx (1970). (One of her costars in that one was Colonel Sanders.) #TCMParty

Guy Kibbee makes all the Warner Bros. musicals fun to watch. (His brother, Milton, is also in #42ndStreet if you don't blink.) #TCMParty

Ned Sparks just might be my favorite character actor of the 1930's. Always makes a film interesting! #TCMParty

#NowWatching 42nd Street (1933) with Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler. Who will step in for the big star when she sprains an ankle? #TCMParty

Finally! A media release for Killers of the Flower Moon! Thank you @criterion.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/films/35293-...

Ha! That was a fun one. Strands #652 “Palette episodes” 📺🟢🟢⚪️ 🔵🟡🟡🔵 ⚪️

#NowWatching Westfront 1918 (1930, Germany) with Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis. G W Pabst's first talkie, A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.

An interesting article combining cold war spying with moutaineering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#NowWatching Blazing Saddles (1974) with Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens. In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. My first R-rated movie back in the day!

#NowWatching Fargo (1996) with Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi. One of my all-time favorites. A rough week, followed by a sub-zero weekend inspired my choice.

#NowWatching Misericordia (2024, France) with Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand. Returning home for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.

#DarkShadows ep658, airing New Years Day, 1969. The final episode with the character of Joe Haskell, who first appeared way back in episode 2. He has been turned insane by watching his cousin turn into a werewolf. He's then packed off to Windcliff sanitarium, never to be heard from again.

Happy to get today's puzzles; they made me think too early in the day. Wordle 1,636 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #914 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Strands #648 “Let me elaborate ...” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵

#NowWatching Forty Guns (1957) with Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger. Showdown in Arizona between the Bonell brothers - U.S. Marshals - and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fisted rancher who controls the territory.

#NowWatching The Prestige (2006) with an A-list cast of Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie. Rival 19th-century magicians engage in a bitter battle for trade secrets.

#NowWatching Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) with Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, William Frawley, Sheldon Leonard. Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.

#NowWatching A Place In The Sun (1951) with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters. Young man is caught between 2 worlds when his blue collar girlfriend becomes pregnant just as he falls in love with an upper class beauty.

#NowWatching Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) with Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson. A mysterious stranger with a harmonica teams up with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow and her land from a ruthless assassin in the employ of a railroad tycoon

#DarkShadows ep 627, airing Nov. 19, 1968. The last show for Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters. Our last glimpse was with Grayson Hall at the top of the stairs in Collingwood. The role would be picked up in ep630 by Betsy Durkin.

Happy Krampusnacht!

#NowWatching The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Tim Burton's masterpiece of stop-motion animation. The detail is amazing, and the songs are top-notch.

This looks fun (for those in the vicinity of Duluth, MN) rathskellerduluth.com/upcoming-eve...

#NowWatching Dr. No (1962) with Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee. British government agent James Bond seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

#NowWatching Napoleon Dynamite (2004) with Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Efren Ramirez. A listless and alienated teenager helps his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while dealing with his bizarre family life back home.