Merry Christmas, everyone. 🥰 #Christmas m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEPt...

My heart. I teared up because this was an especially difficult year from beginning to end. The love, care and precision that TCM taken when constructing these segments shines though. Thank you to the editors and the producers as always for your work. 💜 #TCMParty #SaveTCM

It was so wholesome that RUN-DMC sampled it... 🗣It's Christmas time and we got the spirit 🎄

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

This is a beautifully written tribute. This whole thing doesn’t feel real, but the joy and love of movies, as well as people, that Rob Reiner brought to his work is unmatched. ❤️ www.rogerebert.com/tributes/as-...

Irwin Kostal and the Sherman Brothers provided the lyrics and music for this film, which is why the various song tones and structures seem familiar. To this day I will break into “Mother Earth and Father Time” at random moments. 🥰 #TCMParty #CharlottesWeb #SaveTCM

David Lean’s LAWRENCE OF ARABIA had its official royal world premiere in London on December 10, 1962 #OnThisDay

Day TEN: tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...

I have a soft spot for THE MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE. It’s one of the Hanna-Barbera’s best work and a great animated film, period. It was conceived as a series finale to the original show, with the same tight storylines emotional depth and laughs. 1/ #TCMParty #TheManCalledFlintstone #SaveTCM

My brilliant son-in-law, Scott Collette found a hilarious way to outsmart the AI that was scraping his carefully curated and researched LA history commentary. futurism.com/artificial-i...

There was a history in Merle Oberon’s family of young women being s*’d and impregnated by older men, which was connected with the history of extreme power imbalances between white men and South Asian and/or Eurasian women during the colonial period. 1/ #TCMParty #TheScarletPimpernel #SaveTCM

Postcard from my collection, sent 1912.

11. I’ve long wanted to go to a drive-in movie.

It's easy to see shoddy research as a bad actor problem. But if AI slop like this can make it through editors and peer reviewers, it means there are systemic problems at work. And I'd argue that at least part of the problem is the overwork culture in academia-- pressure to do more while caring less.

Northern Shovelers have arrived in Central Park. Their huge spoon-shaped bill always makes me laugh--but it's very effective for filtering tiny crustaceans out of the water. Just look at the size of that thing! 😍😍😍 #Shoveler #CentralPark #birding

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Gathering Lilies https://www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson/gathering-lilies-1865

when something happens in non-black spaces and you look up to see if the other black folks peeped game and they absolutely have w/o y'all saying a single word to each other.

I find it telling that so many Zamdani lovers - not supporters, lovers - have responded to this oval office meet by endorsing the act of kissing Trump's soiled, crusty ass. People have demonstrated an almost romantic infatuation with this guy and therefore he can do no wrong.

2/2 Maria's page looking extremely askance at her improbable hunting gear. But she meant well!

Maria of Orange, making so many dreadful fashion errors in assembling her hunting gear, 1665. Hunting! The mind boggles. By Jan Mijtens, whose day is also today.

Willem van den Kerckhoven, his wife, their many children, and their several dogs in 1652. Plus horse arriving late for the picture. By Jan Mijtens, whose day has been today.

Stop policing the 92% and start policing your own 53%. You’d never do this to Liz Warren or Katie Porter. Or even AOC.

[November 23rd, 1985] Jim Henson's Muppet Babies airs the episode "The Muppet Museum of Art"

Anna Possi has been brewing espressos and serving coffees in northern Italy for more than 80 years. Possi turned 101 on Sunday. She has no intention to retire. "I have customers who are now grandparents and come in with their grandchildren," Possi said.

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians received a grant for its Choctaw Dictionary project in 2020. However, as the department was nearing completion of the dictionary, the Trump administration terminated the award. buff.ly/5ApEvre

My latest for @tcmtv.bsky.social! An article on the history of The Wizard of Oz (1939) just in time for TCM's new website relaunch www.tcm.com/articles/afi...

Iger got snippy about it. The CEO. Let that sink in. The Russos have been obsessed with it ever since. The fans circle back every now and again. (Scorsese doesn’t care.) I am no shrink but I think Martin hit a tender spot, an insecurity. There was no reason to go scorched earth on him like that.

Disney was pushing the Academy to make a new category so it could win Best Picture. The box office was theirs. Even the wackiest, most obscure characters were raking in the cash. And that little director had the nerve to speak up, saying something mild as an aside, but still heresy

The slow collapse of this cultural juggernaut is going to be studied alongside the downfall of 1960s mega epics. It may come back from the grave but the must-see, can’t-miss aspect is very difficult to revive once it is gone. Scorsese made an offhand remark when the series was at its height

MCU bros trying to get back to 2019 so bad…

apnews.com/article/us-m... Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years

IT’S NOVEMBER 1ST! MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄 🎁

A beautiful tribute. It’s still very hard to believe he’s gone, but what a life he lived. ❤️ #TCMParty

Los Angeles’s War on Tramps daily.jstor.org/los-angeless...

Ida Lupino was only 41 when she starred in Twilight Zone's "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine." I think Rod Serling, in this homage to "Sunset Boulevard," was (again) ahead of his time in showing how Hollywood has long marginalized and discarded many "old" female stars. #S1E4

“’Twas grace hath brought me safe thus far... and grace will lead me home...” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The Louvre remained closed Monday, a day after historic jewels were stolen from the world’s most-visited museum in a daring daylight heist that prompted authorities to reassess security measures at cultural sites across France. https://to.pbs.org/4hkEG4E

20th October 2025 07.42

I wonder when Americans will start listening to Black women.

The fun thing about sharing silent films online is that people, who have access to movies with the fanciest CGI and the latest camera tech, will ooo and ah about a comparatively simple tracking shot from 1913. There's so much magic in old movies.

I was thinking about this because I stumbled on a clip from a newer movie that was well-edited and used some creative tricks that would have taken weeks of work back in the day (now easily accomplished via computer). It was flawless but not nearly as enthralling as, say, a child opening French doors

I've noticed a lot of "the usual suspects" having a LOT of trouble processing the fact that, this time around, many Black people are deciding not to be cannon fodder for them, instead insisting that white folks do the hard work and clean up their own messes for once.