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Pinocchio--When You Wish Upon a Star opening of It's A Wonderful Life--'stars' are talking about George...little star Clarence zips in swirling stars above character- universal cartoon language for head injury and at MGM:

Star Trek and Star Wars franchises Ad Astra (2019) ("to the stars")

I guess it was because i just finished a film that i enjoyed and immediately i hear what i thought was a ridiculous take on it that didn't really have anything to do with the film at all but more about what agenda the host has. and that is something i don't think really belongs on TCM- regardless how many viewers may believe it. that really isn't the purpose of the channel. but yeah, i try not to let things like that affect me. just get a bit sick of politics and social agenda taking over everything. guess i can't help it how i react sometimes just wanting to stay out of it when i want to just enjoy a film.

Yul Brynner in The King and I Hobbits in The Lord of The Rings trilogy

The Invisible Man Returns (1940) One of the first films planned by Universal when the studio decided to make a return to their popular horror vehicles of the early '30s was this production, their first sequel to 1933's The Invisible Man. Vincent Price, cast in the title role, had the first of his horror starring vehicles here, a genre to which he would return (and become a legend) later in his career. The story involves an innocent man (Price) about to be executed for a murder who makes an escape from his prison cell via an invisibility formula administered to him by a scientist friend (John Sutton) who is the brother of the original Invisible Man (Claude Rains who does not appear in this film) who had invented the formula. Price then sets out to find the real murderer as Sutton works on a means to return him to normalcy. Along the way, though, as in the original film, he starts turning into a mad megalomanic (with dialogue in one scene that could be seen as reflecting the thinking of a certain well known American politician today). "I don't want friends," Price says, "I shall have worshippers and followers, people who will obey me because they recognize my greatness. Those who obey me will be rewarded. And the others, destroyed!" The plot is pretty straight forward without any surprises (virtually from the opening scene in the film you can tell who the real murderer will turn out to be). The supporting cast is quite adequate, but no more. Cedric Hardwicke plays a "friend" who is easy to see through (no, I don't mean that way) while Nan Grey is a pretty bland leading lady, sorely lacking the sparkle that Gloria Stuart had brought to the original film. Cecil Kellaway is an inspector trying to capture the Invisible Man by any creative means possible, considering the uniqueness of his hard to see quarry. Vincent Price, who actually has second billing to Hardwicke in this production, uses his silky smooth voice well and, at times, commandingly, as the invisible one. Like Rains seven years before, Price spends the entire film in bandages and is only visible for one minute in one scene. Where this film really succeeds is in the spare but impressive invisible special effects of John Fulton. Surprisingly, there's almost a throwaway quality to them because they occur only infrequently in the film and for just a few seconds at a time. Nevertheless, they generally match those in the original film. Particularly effective is a moment in which the police inspector fills part of a room with cigar smoke and we briefly see the shadowy outline of the Invisible Man standing beside him. Director Joe May makes no attempt at the humour James Whale had brought to the first Invisible Man. Vincent Price would only make one more non appearance as the Invisible Man, a voice gag bit at the end of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. 3 out of 4

Anne Of The Thousand Days (1969) TCM 7/10 King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) seeks to divorce his wife Catherine to marry the young Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujold) I just re watched this for the first time in many years. Burton is great as the selfish, obsessive King. But Bujold steals the show as the feisty Anne. She may the most beautiful actress to play this role and makes her a very complex character. We are never sure of her motives in finally agreeing to marry Henry. She seems vengeful at times, a little devious (is she lying or telling the truth in her powerful final scene with the King), she can also appear to be sweet and tender, she tells Henry she truly loves him at one point, but it is true? The film drags a bit at times (145 minute long) but still engrossing. An interesting tidbit is Elizabeth Taylor has a cameo but is seen only behind a mask at a palace ball. She had wanted to keep an eye on husband Burton who often had affairs with his leading ladies. Bujold did not confirm or deny that she and Burton had an affair, she seemed to delight in driving Taylor crazy about it. When Bujold accepted a Golden Globe for her performance she cheekily thanked Richard Burton for" everything he did for her,". while Taylor stared daggers at her from the audience.

PETER PAN — “Second star to the right and straight on til morning”

Wall-E (2008) A Beautiful Mind (2001) stargazing Stars in My Crown (1950) Star! (1968)

The movie is available also on: The Roku Channel. That channel should be available on all common streaming devices. It is available also directly through a browser if you turn off your adblocker. I believe that some movies and television programs require also that you subscribe to the channel but subscriptions are ostensibly free. There are commercials also on: The Roku Channel but they are different from the ones on: PlutoTV and they may be placed differently. I frequently use: https://www.justwatch.com/us to find which common streaming services carry a particular movie or television program. An example of this is: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/mulholland-falls Clicking on: Roku's icon in the: 'Stream' results takes you to that movie on: Roku.

Me too. My father was a bit of a horse breeder. American Saddlebreds and Arabians. I'm betting you'd find the roll that equine play in the patient's disorder intriguing, but the scene where the horses are blinded is just too much. Gratuitously graphic, brutal and long. The film is both visual and talky. There's a few lengthy scenes of Burton narrating straight into the camera, boringly diagnosing the patient and himself. I'm not comparing Equus and Good Will Hunting, I'm saying someone involved with the Good Will Hunting script obviously was influenced, possibly HEAVILY influenced by patient/doctor aspect in Equus.

I read the Horse Whisperer and re-watched the movie a year or two ago. Book was okay and so was the movie. Yesterday, watched vintage Michael Moriarty/Richard Brooks/Chris Noth/George Dunza (sp?) episodes of Law and Order. Even saw the one with Noth's Sex and the City co-star, Cynthia Nixon. I am not familiar with The Crimson Kimono; however, there is a movie with the non-Jewish Rosalind Russell playing a Jewish woman and the non-Japanese Alec Guiness in A Majority of One. Great movie and one I could relate to when I saw the apartment she lived in when she returned to NYC because it reminded me of my paternal grandmother. I also watched the Mario Cuomo's last attempt to save face. Since I live in NYS, it affects me. And, like many women, it leads to PTSD for many of us.

I do not understand what you are referring to in that last sentence. Are you comparing two different movies? Please clarify. I'm also very interested in this movie as a whole. Is it "talky" or visual? Is the violence inferred or shown? I've had horses all my life and am easily traumatized by stories involving horses plus a low intolerance for gore/violence & avoided this movie (as WAR HORSE) I was afraid to see THE HORSE WHISPERER for a decade, until learning the only violence was inferred & brief, it was mostly the story of recovery-I loved it! Would love to read more detailed impressions of yours about this movie to decide if I could handle it.

The Evening Star (1996) Night Without Stars (1951) A Star Fell From Heaven (1936) The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995) Stars Fell on Alabama (2021) Catch a Falling Star (2000) Bright Star (2009) Dark Star (1974) Shooting Stars (1928) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

The Bat (1959) A man embezzles a million dollars from a bank, hides it in his home and enlists a doctor to participate in faking his death so that he will not be pursued. A few unseen complications arise. I found this to be a very strange movie. I could not tell if Agnes Moorehead was supposed to be a bossy old lady set in her ways or a creative writing genius or a caring friend and protector of the young women she induces to stay in her home while a notorious murderer is stalking the halls. Vincent Price is somewhat of an enigma also as we know that he is a bit odd and quite capable of murder but we accept that those traits might simply have developed in him because of his long years treating patients such as Agnes Moorehead. It does honor to the mystery genre quite well because there are many good suspects and they are all treated evenly. There is no undisclosed information revealed at the last moment nor any characters introduced out of thin air. Any one of the characters might be the culprit and the answer to the mystery is not reached by ridiculous leaps of logic. 7.9/10 It is available for viewing for free with commercials on: TubiTV.

I remember a movie I gave a second chance to and liked it more the second viewing: DELIRIUM (1979) Filmed in and around St. Louis, MO. The first time I saw it I hated it; I did give it another try and enjoyed it more the 2nd time 'round. The film was banned in the UK as a 'Video Nastie' for a while, but was passed in 1987 after approx. 15-17 seconds worth of footage was cut out. → It seems the BBFC didn't like the topless woman being impaled by the spear . . . so that had to go for DELIRIUM to receive a classification from the almighty BBFC. What a picky bunch! BLOOD! 🩸

Not the creator of Garfield?!!?

3. She had a long and incredibly distinguished stage career as a great classical actress who could also play modern roles. Although she often played in Shaw and Shakespeare, her breakthrough role, which earned her superlatives, was in 1924, as Millamant in Congreve's Restoration comedy The Way of the World, at the Lyric Hammersmith.

2. She was famed for her interpretation of the indomitable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Her inimitable delivery of the immortal line, "A handbag??" has become something of an internet meme and inspired various remixes.

Kandisha (2020) France/Dir: Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury - A group of young women, living in poor immigrant housing projects in Paris, summon a vengeful Moroccan spirit known as Kandisha. The girls struggle to find a way to stop the demon, while it goes on a killing spree. Writer-directors Bustillo & Maury were behind the excellent 2007 film Inside, so I had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, it ended up being too similar to a half dozen other American-made "urban boogeyman" films, with very few surprises along the way. The creature effects are well done, and the multicultural cast and setting make it a bit more unique, but not enough to seek this one out. (6/10)

Pick Yourself Up - Fred and Ginger sing and dance - Swing Time a Jane Powell song you like

Star Spangled Rhythm 1942 Starlift 1951 Stars and Stripes Forever 1952 The Tin Star 1957 Flaming Star 1960 Starship Troopers movies

If you haven't already seen it, definitely check out Red Dust (1932), the original pre-code of which Mogambo is a remake. Jean Harlow and Mary Astor play the roles taken by Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly in the latter. I suspect you may find the original significantly more entertaining. See also the little-known sequel, Please, Sir, May I Have Some Mo' Gumbo (1969).

And which it seems, according to Shank Asu anyway(didn't see this myself), was the basic premise that Alicia expressed after a recent showing of The Crimson Kimono, but with the example in this case of the Japanese-American community of the Los Angeles area substituting for that of the African-American community of Detriot. (...gotta say here though that this conversation is now gettin' a bit heavy...can't we just go back to the subject of what a terrific voice I have???!!!) LOL

And none at all is BEST! other streaming services like THE ROKU CHANNEL (as Sansfin mentioned), TUBI and PEACOCK show most of their ads at the beginning of the film you are watching, and then either decrease the number of ad breaks or forego them altogether (PEACOCK, I know runs all the ads at the start of the film and then runs none for the duration.) BUT PLUTO (which actually has a pretty decent catalogue of films and TV shows to choose from) is just a CONSTANT SHOTGUN SPRAY OF ADS. THEY NEVER LET UP for the duration of the film, one 3 minute break every 10-12 minutes without fail. I had been wanting to see the movie SECONDS (1966) for years and found it on PLUTO TV and had to quit watching after 20 minutes of the film was interrupted by 20 minutes of commercial. I'm not kidding. They would have an ad break, show ONE MINUTE OF THE FILM, and then launch into another AD BREAK.

I'm a big fan of The Crimson Kimono since my mom is Japanese coming to the USA after she married my American father in the 50s. We lived in the area and would go to all the sites in the film; e.g. the Buddhist temple was my mom's temple. I'm not aware of Malone's comments so I have to check those out.

Silly Dargo..... ANY black activist will tell you.... There's NO SUCH THING as a "black racist". Try telling them otherwise and they'll argue semantics with you. I myself distinguish a difference between a "racist" and a "bigot". And by my reckoning, I understand what you're saying, but to me it would be more fitting to claim Roy Glenn's character as making BIGOTED views. Which I've long felt he clearly was doing. Sepiatone

Shank Asu, while I agree absolutely, positively and UNEQUIVOCALLY agree with the thought you expressed in this first part of your above posting... ...AND which was a point that I actually brought up a few months back when our "woke" TCM hosts presented their opinions on the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and when THEY failed to mention ANYTHING at all about the out-and-out racist views which were expressed in THAT film by Sidney Poitier's father character. However, what I can NOT understand is the thought you THEN expressed within the SECOND half of your above posting here... ...as I have to THEN wonder, and as I do every time someone comes these boards (and who usually turn out to be as I call then "One Post Wonders") states their displeasure and disgust with something they've considered as "woke" which one of the TCM host have said about some film. And so MY question here is: Why would you allow ANYTHING that the cute Aussie lass with the nice smile and an overall pleasant appearance(but who once again, does tend to talk through her nose at bit) OR for that matter ANYTHING that ANY of the TCM hosts say while they're expressing an OPINION about the film you've just watched, AFFECT you to ANY degree at all, and ESPECIALLY to the degree to which and as you YOURSELF here have just stated in which it "took (you) completely out of the film once it was over"??? You see, I don't and never have allowed ANYTHING that ANY of the TCM hosts have ever said after THEY have given us THEIR opinion about a film affect ME in the damn LEAST, well, at least NOT to the degree to which it would affect ME and take ME "completely out of film once it was over", anyway. (...see my point here?...so what is it?...are you worried that whatever the TCM hosts say and when they offer up their OPINIONS about a certain film's content or "message", that this might go on to heavily influence too many people with as yet unformed opinions of their own out while they're listening to them, and say such as the younger viewers out there?...well, at least this has always been MY guess as to why I occasionally read posts submitted to these boards with these sorts of laments, anyway)

NORMAN . . . IS THAT YOU? (1976) Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey

I liked it, thought the visuals were great. Read all about it here: Noirsville

The Alamo Next: Claire Trevor

Did you mean 'Andrew Cuomo', chaya? Mario is pushin' up daisies now!

Batman 1966

Impressed with all those great examples yesterday! two thousand one hundred fifty-third category Starry night THE WAY TO THE STARS (1945) LUST FOR LIFE (1956) STARMAN (1984)

Surprising news. I don't believe I've been this shocked about a retirement since Gene Hackman stopped making movies after "Welcome to Mooseport" in 2004. By the way, Hackman trended on Twitter yesterday when an update was posted about him.

Shalako (1968) Next: Fay Wray

Gidget, Moondoggie, and the gang in Gidget (1959). Doris Day in That Touch of Mink (1962) because she's a REAL woman. Sophia Loren in Boy on a Dolphin (1957) because she's REALLY a real woman. Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana (1964) because she can. Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction (1994) because a $5 shake is just the beginning. Lots of tootsies in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Bill Holden was a fine actor, but he hated dancing,i think he danced in only 2 or 3 movies,he always ask for extra $ to dance as 'a stunt man',It was a real phobia for him If i remember well the Picnic dance routine was so horrible for him,they had to move the camera around him to give the illusion of movement,i think they even had a rotating stage.I have seen all of his films minus 4 or 5 early ones,Personnally I feel he looks too old for the part in Picnic,He looks much older than Robertson,Holden was only 35 at the time.

The inimitable Richard Harris next: JOURNEY TO SHILOH (1968)

Something Cool is the classic JUNE CHRISTY album, from 1953, and successful in its era. I love her but she is largely forgotten. She sang with STAN KENTON's band in the late 40s (after ANITA O'DAY left). She married a member of KENTON's band.

"The Oceana Roll" in Mildred Pierce next: another song in a movie starring Joan Crawford

Nor Ken Berry (at least until they divorced). And Ms. Joseph is still with us, at 87.

DRAGONWYCK (1946)

Reunion in France (1942)

Henry Daniell

The only characters I could think of that were always barefoot...The Flintstones others that were sometimes barefoot in memorable moments... Hank Azaria in The Birdcage (says shoes make him fall) Kim Novak, Bell Book and Candle Maureen O'Hara in The Parent Trap all the 'Beach Party' folks

Dynasty Warriors (2021) Hong Kong/Dir: Roy Hin Yeung Chow - Historical action/fantasy, based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms stories, and the Japanese video game series. As the Han dynasty loses its grip on China, various factions vie for control. Corrupt general Dong Zhou (Suet Lam) enlists the aid of legendary warrior Lu Bu (Louis Koo) to ensure his rule, while noted young warrior Cao Cao (Kai Wang) gathers his own army. The three brothers-in-arms known as Liu Bei (Tony Yang), Zhang Fei (Justin Cheung), and Guan Yu (Geng Han) try to defeat them all in defense of the people. Also featuring Carina Lau, Ray Lui, Coulee Nazha, and Eddie Cheung. It would be near impossible to do the Three Kingdoms stories justice in a single feature film, as there are far too many characters and factions to wade through in such a short running time. Even the better filmed versions, such as John Woo's Red Cliff films, leave much out. This version, more specifically based on the long-running video game series, focuses more on fantastical magical weapons, big battle scenes ruined by subpar CGI effects, and only a few of the usual characters. The costuming is both lavish and a bit silly, while the casting is often questionable, particularly Louis Koo as the fearsome Lu Bu. (4/10)

From the weekend: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Loved it. Was just different enough from a typical noir plot to stand out- making the femme fatale a victim too and not scheming on her own, but great how that was teased at one point during the courtroom scenes. Might check out some of the other versions if people on here recommend it. Mogumbo (1953) I like these safari adventure films- feels like Hemmingway's short stories, but i thought the plot of this was pretty weak and the love triangle not believable- and ultimately i didn't care about it either as i wasn't invested enough in any of the characters. I spent too much time worrying about how the animals on set were treated. Sounds like the production was a mess and three people died even. Have read a few stories of how bad Ford treated his cast and crew on the shoot, which was also under threat of the Mau Mau revolution. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Absolutely hate it! Forced myself to watch it as it is consistently on the top international films of all time lists, but it was a struggle. I get it- an entire film that is one long musical number, but i felt overwhelmed the entire time like i was just waiting for the singing to end to catch a break . The songs themselves weren't anything memorable, just dialogue that is sung- although towards the end i did recognize a musical score to a song i know Dean Martin sings. My favorite part of the film was the fact that i was watching a recording on DVR which had a runtime of 2.5 hours, so when the film ended at 1hour50 minutes, i was ecstatic. The story didn't even seem very good. It is unfinished and needed another act. Just having the two former lovers run into each other and part was anticlimactic. For whatever reason the films of Catherine Deneuve which are supposed to be great, i can't stand. See nothing good about Belle de Jour. At all. Oh well, at least i can say i watched this film i suppose. Hamlet (1948) Another film i wasn't looking forward to seeing but because it was an Oscar winner for best picture, felt obliged. I've just read /studied this play too many times in school and seen too many versions to be much enthralled.

Paulette Goddard in Modern Times (1936) Katharine Hepburn in Spitfire (1934) Jodie Foster in Nell (1994) Leslie Parrish in Li'l Abner (1959) Jean-Pierre Cargol in The Wild Child (1970) Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle (1997)

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) A Quiet Place (2018) Die Hard (1988) Lassie Come Home (1943)

Pane, Amore e Fantasia (1953) - Gina Lollobrigida Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) - Brigitte Bardot Forbidden Planet (1956) - Anne Francis The Time Machine (1960) - Yvette Mimieux Barefoot in the Park (1967) - Robert Redford