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A triple-feature of John Hughes films airs tonight: THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985) SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984) UNCLE BUCK (1989...with Oscar winner Amy Madigan) We're hosting a watch party for "Sixteen"...hope you can join us at 10pE for this snapshot of 80s high school, angst, and cliques. #TCMParty ^JW

Penny Marshall's A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992) is screening at AMC theaters nationwide Sat + Tues. Tix are $10 or less. And stay for the tear-jerking credits. Complete list of theaters: www.amctheatres.com/events/women... #FilmSky #WomensHistoryMonth

GENERATIONS debuted on NBC #OTD in 1989. The groundbreaking soap opera was the first and only daytime drama w/ a primarily Black cast until CBS’s BEYOND THE GATES. #BeyondTheGates #BTG

#NoirCityPhiladelphia added! ANNOUNCED #NoirCity DATES NOIR CITY: Hollywood: Apr 3-5 & 10-12 @amcinematheque.bsky.social NOIR CITY Boston: June 12-14 @brattletheatre.bsky.social NOIR CITY: Chicago: Sep 4-10 @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social NOIR CITY: Portland: Aug 21-23 @hollywoodtheatre.org

His comms team should never pay for a drink again. (And this is a brilliant initiative.)

It’s always so nice to hear people say they enjoy my weekly editorials in the Fango newsletter. But the ones *I* get excited for are the guest editorials, and this week is a banger from @michaelvarrati.bsky.social - go read it! manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...

This broke earlier today in my BUFFERING newsletter, but is now live on @vulture.com: This weekend's #SNLUK will stream on Peacock much earlier than last week's premiere. Here's why, plus why the first ep didn't go up until 9 p.m. Sunday. www.vulture.com/article/what...

Quick, somebody preserve this page before they tear it down. www.govmint.com/learn/post/l... Because the answer is no. Obviously, people in charge of the country's money didn't get the memo about the Thayer Amendment. www.military.com/history/why-...

For my 12th birthday, I got this - Daniel Blum's 1968 edition of 'A Pictorial History Of The Talkies'. I still treasure it, but I wore it out, poring over the pages. The dust jacket is long gone, but within there was a magical world of film, some of which I'm still discovering... #FilmSky

The PBS DOCUMENTARIES YouTube channel launches today w/ features, shorts and science/history specials. The goal is to "amplify storytelling from PBS stations, production partners and independent filmmakers" w/ 100+ new videos annually—incl. premieres and originals. www.pbs.org/about/about-... #PBS

Before #WOMENSHISTORYMONTH comes to a close, resharing my spotlight on unsung classic Black female artists; #filmmakers, #actors, #writers, #directors, #entertainers, #singers, pioneers in the history of the arts. Read my complete essay on these women: dominiquerevue.weebly.com/womens-histo... ♡

“Sahara Hare”, directed by Friz Freleng, was released on this day in 1955. #LooneyTunes

Happy birthday to the eternally divine Diana Ross, who is 82 today. A good day to wear a great pair of statement earrings in her honor. 📷 Barrie Wentzell, London, 1965

Last week Jerry Beck was on Stu's Show and he talked about the Tom and Jerry Golden Era Anthology Blu-Ray, how they got those two long banned T&J cartoons out, and what that means for future WAC releases.

The PBS DOCUMENTARIES YouTube channel launches today w/ features, shorts and science/history specials. The goal is to "amplify storytelling from PBS stations, production partners and independent filmmakers" w/ 100+ new videos annually—incl. premieres and originals. www.pbs.org/about/about-... #PBS

This five hour documentary (which is only part 1 of 2) is coming to MUBI in April and it is an essential piece of filmmaking for our times.

I accidentally messaged my doctor about the Mets and they subscribed me to text notifications. "Message & data rates may apply." #LGM #OpeningDay

I love Lew Ayres in this

Lewis Milestone's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930) screens today at Regal cinemas. A multiplex chain playing a powerful anti-war film during a stupid, unnecessary war is coincidental, but it sure feels prescient. Tix are $7.99. Catch this Oscar winner on the big screen if you can. #FilmSky

Good morning. #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

You can knock A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE for its abrupt ending. But by ending on the doctor's call, the film may be skirting the required punishment for Charles Boyer's adultery. We're left to construct our own resolution, which will likely be happier than the Code's! #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

I love how Cedric Hardwicke "Columbos" Jessica Tandy in A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE. I wish there was even more of his sleuthing. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

In the opening scene of A WOMAN'S VENGEANCE, Charles Boyer towers contemptuously over a woman who is about to die. In this scene, a vengeful woman towers over him, as he is about to die. Powerful narrative book-ending. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

As Huxley biographer Nicholas Murray notes, Huxley’s “morbid interest in human decay” – examined with “the coldness of the vivisectionist” – presages the hard-boiled fiction of James Cain, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

The fact that Ann Blyth's character is pregnant means that Charles Boyer's character committed adultery. And according to the Production Code, he must be punished for that—whether he killed his wife or not. It will be interesting to see how the film deals w/ that. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

Imagine if real life was lit by Russell Metty. You'd always know when someone was shady. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

Cinematographer Russell Metty practicing for the Sirkian windows to come. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

Preach. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

We don't see Charles Boyer's face when he sees his dead wife, so we are left to add our own context. I love the ambiguity in staging this in a distant wide shot. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

Mildred Natwick, spitting truths. #FilmNoirClub #AWomansVengeance

Ok everybody! Now get ready to join in the #FilmNoirClub watch party hosted by @tommykrasker.bsky.social up next at 7:00 pm CDT. #tcmparty

Willard Scott isn’t around, but thankfully Today had Al Roker wish Gene a happy 100th this morning. Truly an icon.

#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #WatchParty 🎉 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟴:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 𝗘𝗧 @pmoll.bsky.social @willmckinley.bsky.social @trjumpet.swifties.social @eddiemuller.bsky.social @roblarocque.bsky.social @kasiunia.bsky.social @tiredtx.bsky.social @theowlwagon.bsky.social @churchlady320.bsky.social @judi1218.bsky.social

Film composer Riz Ortolani (1926-2014) was BOTD. Spaghetti westerns and Italian horror flicks were his main gig, but boy, did he hit it big with his song "More" from MONDO CANE (1962). Bobby Darin is my man, so here's his version, recently heard in HBO's Euphoria: #filmsky #moviesky #musicsky

Farewell to Lilias Folan (1936–2026) — yoga teacher, broadcaster, author and columnist. As host of the PBS series LILIAS, YOGA AND YOU beginning in 1970, “she was perhaps the first to bring the exotic-seeming practice into middle-American living rooms.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u... #TVSky

A trade ad for Mitchell Leisen's MIDNIGHT w/ Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, and Francis Lederer —released #OTD in 1939. The copywriter has some fun at Barrymore's expense ("old timer"), but guess what? He has better chemistry w/ Colbert than the two young studs. #FilmSky

A trade ad for Mitchell Leisen's MIDNIGHT w/ Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, and Francis Lederer —released #OTD in 1939. The copywriter has some fun at Barrymore's expense ("old timer"), but guess what? He has better chemistry w/ Colbert than the two young studs. #FilmSky

Farewell to Lilias Folan (1936–2026) — yoga teacher, broadcaster, author and columnist. As host of the PBS series LILIAS, YOGA AND YOU beginning in 1970, “she was perhaps the first to bring the exotic-seeming practice into middle-American living rooms.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u... #TVSky

Ted Nichols, Famed Hanna-Barbera Composer on ‘The Flintstones’ and ‘Scooby-Doo,’ Dies at 97 He also worked on ‘Jonny Quest,’ ‘Space Ghost,’ ‘Wacky Races’ and many other other shows at the cartoon factory for nearly a decade.

"I'm not a well man." Norman Fell #BOTD channels Franklin Pangborn opposite Dick Van Dyke (in disguise) in Delbert Mann's 1967 heist comedy FITZWILLY. #FilmSky

In 2026, I’ll take tiny moments of joy whenever I can find it. Thus, I present this lovely blog from the Library of Virginia about 16mm film and public library rental programs! #nontheatricalfilm uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2026/03...

What is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth so afraid of? That's the question you might ask after hearing about yet another set of restrictions on the Pentagon press corps.

I saw Kathleen Chalfant on 72nd St. in NYC and must have gawked a bit too long, because she looked at me like "Yes. Okay? Enough!" and I slightly nodded my head and kept walking without breaking stride. All of this happened in approximately five seconds.

Good morning. #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

This Wednesday at 8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT, I’ll be hosting the #FilmNoirClub watch party of A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE (1948), with its incisive script by Aldous Huxley, and a performance by Jessica Tandy that I consider among the finest committed to film. Join us. 😊 Link to watch: archive.org/details/a-wo...

Regal screened the restoration of WINGS (1927), which I had mixed feelings about when I first saw/heard it in 2012. But the soundtrack worked far better for me in a multiplex today than it did in an arthouse then, which may have been the point. willmckinley.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/t... #FilmSky

Her last years were filled with a lot of struggle, but based on interviews I read with her, Perrine's spirit remained undefeated. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

You guys. They’re really showing WINGS (1927) at the multiplex.

William Wellman's WINGS (1927) w/ Clara Bow is screening at Regal cinemas nationwide today! I don't recall the last time a multiplex played a #SilentFilm (even an Oscar-winning one) so this is big. Maybe they'll program more if we all go. Tix are $7.99. www.regmovies.com/movies/mars-... #FilmSky