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Philip Seymour Hoffman as Reverend Veasey in Cold Mountain (2003).

Sunday, May 3 10:45 p.m. Once to Every Woman (1934). It has a 7.4 imdb rating and stars Ralph Bellamy and Fay Wray. 2:15 a.m The Children Are Watching Us (1944). Vittorio De Sica’s more famous, internationally acclaimed Bicycle Thieves (1948) follows but this lesser known film is also a gem and demonstrates why De Sica was probably the best director of amateur actors and children in film.

The 2019 winner of the Hungarian Film Week Best Picture Award was … Those Who Remained (2019) Barnabas Toth, Hungary

Richard Griffiths as Uncle Vernon Dursley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). I thought he was just about the best thing about this movie.

Saturday, May 2 10 a.m. Popeye: Quiet Please (1941). "Whatever it is, I'm against it." 2 a.m. Horse Feathers (1932).

The water pump associated with the 1854 cholera outbreak in London is still there on Broadwick Street in Soho. It isn't used now!

The Pied Piper, Jacques Demy's 1972 film with Donovan about the 14th century Black Plague.

Here are two from The Thin Red Line (1998). Nick Nolte as Lt. Col. Gordon Tall Woody Harrelson as Sgt. William Keck

Friday, May 1 May already. Maybe not such a bad thing this year. 3:45 a.m. Stop Me Before I Kill (1960). British crime thriller with Diane Cilento originally titled The Full Treatment (1960).

How did I know that this response was going to be a complaint. I disagree.

Heather Graham as Brandy aka 'Roller Girl' in Boogie Nights (1997).

Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.

Thursday, Apr 30 New York in the 70’s continues. Mean Streets (1973) was on the original schedule but not now so I will go with another Scorsese film … 2:30 a.m. Taxi Driver (1976).

The Union Carbide chemical disaster in India.

Being as thick as a post and lovestruck can be a deadly combination. Joaquin Phoenix as James "Jimmy" Emmett in To Die For (1995).

Wednesday, April 29 11 p.m. When a Man Loves (1927). With John Barrymore and Dolores Costello.

1974 and I’ve also seen … Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) Alain Robbe-Grillet, France Incredibly pretentious. It has lots of nudity with beautiful French starlets but handled in a bizarre non-erotic way.

Andreas Katsulas as Richard Frederick Sykes in The Fugitive (1993).

The plague interferes in the plans of the Friar to deliver an all important letter in Romeo and Juliet. Scene 2 Enter Friar John. FRIAR JOHN Holy Franciscan friar, brother, ho! Enter Friar Lawrence. FRIAR LAWRENCE This same should be the voice of Friar John.— Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo? Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. FRIAR JOHN Going to find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me, Here in this city visiting the sick, And finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth, So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.

Tuesday, April 28 5:15 a.m. Beyond the Line of Duty (1942). Fans of Glenn Strange may wish to catch this Army Training short subject. Narrated by an actor who never quite made it, Ronald Reagan.

Epidemic (1987) by Lars von Trier.

Illeana Douglas as Loretta 'Lori" Davis in Cape Fear (1991).

Monday, April 27 Jane Russell SOTM 11:45 p.m. Underwater (1955). Several posters were talking about this one when it was announced.

Executive Decision (1996). Arab terrorists hijack and weaponize a 747 bound for Washington D.C. In the cargo hold is a payload of anthrax. The film is better than it sounds.