Darrell Clem
@darrellclem.bsky.social
Retired journalist / music addict / film buff (TCM) / road trips / foodie / progressive / college hoops (Kentucky) / Detroit sports / in search of the perfect burger /🏳️🌈
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A treasure trove of great films here; some I still need to see.
Some of the most memorable films in cinema history:
Rififi. Out of the Past. All About Eve. Ikiru. So many more …
Some of the most memorable films in cinema history:
Rififi. Out of the Past. All About Eve. Ikiru. So many more …
Favourite new-to-me films of 2025 (those films I saw for the first time this year, mostly rated four stars and above, in the order that I watched them... )
#filmsky
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Favourite new-to-me films of 2025
Those films I saw for the first time this year (mostly) rated four stars and above, in the order that I watched them
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December 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A treasure trove of great films here; some I still need to see.
Some of the most memorable films in cinema history:
Rififi. Out of the Past. All About Eve. Ikiru. So many more …
Some of the most memorable films in cinema history:
Rififi. Out of the Past. All About Eve. Ikiru. So many more …
We’re finally cutting the cable-TV cord and going with a streaming service that gives us more channels at significantly less cost.
The bad news: I have 53 recorded movies I will lose—until I start over.
Got a few more days to decide which ones to watch.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
The bad news: I have 53 recorded movies I will lose—until I start over.
Got a few more days to decide which ones to watch.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
a countdown with the number 3 on it
Alt: A countdown to cutting the cable-TV cord.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
First watch: LATE AUTUMN (Japanese, 1960) explores the same themes of marriage reluctance vs. strong parental-adult child bonds as Ozu’s LATE SPRING (1949).
It’s a very good film, just a notch lower.
Setsuko Hara effortlessly makes the 11-year acting shift from daughter to mother.
#FilmSky
It’s a very good film, just a notch lower.
Setsuko Hara effortlessly makes the 11-year acting shift from daughter to mother.
#FilmSky
December 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
First watch: LATE AUTUMN (Japanese, 1960) explores the same themes of marriage reluctance vs. strong parental-adult child bonds as Ozu’s LATE SPRING (1949).
It’s a very good film, just a notch lower.
Setsuko Hara effortlessly makes the 11-year acting shift from daughter to mother.
#FilmSky
It’s a very good film, just a notch lower.
Setsuko Hara effortlessly makes the 11-year acting shift from daughter to mother.
#FilmSky
Friday night old-school #horror
Why Hammer Films’ THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) succeeds:
✅ Peter Cushing embodies the mad, amoral scientist
✅ Christopher Lee’s monster is brutal compared to Boris Karloff’s more innocent portrayal in 1931
✅ Hammer’s reliably good sets and score
#FilmSky
Why Hammer Films’ THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) succeeds:
✅ Peter Cushing embodies the mad, amoral scientist
✅ Christopher Lee’s monster is brutal compared to Boris Karloff’s more innocent portrayal in 1931
✅ Hammer’s reliably good sets and score
#FilmSky
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Friday night experimenting in the kitchen.
Anything could happen.
Anything could happen.
a woman in a chef 's hat is holding a spoon in her mouth
Alt: A gif of someone cooking.
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December 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Friday night experimenting in the kitchen.
Anything could happen.
Anything could happen.
Off to run errands with Danish duo The Raveonettes.
Love the black-and-white noir-ish video for this track, Attack of the Ghost Riders.
youtu.be/1gQEvupSrRY?si…
Love the black-and-white noir-ish video for this track, Attack of the Ghost Riders.
youtu.be/1gQEvupSrRY?si…
December 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Off to run errands with Danish duo The Raveonettes.
Love the black-and-white noir-ish video for this track, Attack of the Ghost Riders.
youtu.be/1gQEvupSrRY?si…
Love the black-and-white noir-ish video for this track, Attack of the Ghost Riders.
youtu.be/1gQEvupSrRY?si…
Just watched IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) and it hit harder this time.
I’m very fortunate, but I have family and friends this Christmas who are struggling, some with serious health issues and others with job-loss financial difficulties.
Never take life for granted. George Bailey knows.
#FilmSky
I’m very fortunate, but I have family and friends this Christmas who are struggling, some with serious health issues and others with job-loss financial difficulties.
Never take life for granted. George Bailey knows.
#FilmSky
a black and white photo of a man standing in front of a sign that says you are now in bedford falls
Alt: A clip from It’s a Wonderful Life.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Just watched IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) and it hit harder this time.
I’m very fortunate, but I have family and friends this Christmas who are struggling, some with serious health issues and others with job-loss financial difficulties.
Never take life for granted. George Bailey knows.
#FilmSky
I’m very fortunate, but I have family and friends this Christmas who are struggling, some with serious health issues and others with job-loss financial difficulties.
Never take life for granted. George Bailey knows.
#FilmSky
Serious #Christmas dinner prep underway with Marvin while TCM is on in the background with familiar favorites.
Up next, CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945).
Sure glad our cooking skills are better than Barbara Stanwyck’s. 🤣
Also, I would like to spend a snowy week in that house!
#FilmSky
Up next, CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945).
Sure glad our cooking skills are better than Barbara Stanwyck’s. 🤣
Also, I would like to spend a snowy week in that house!
#FilmSky
December 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Serious #Christmas dinner prep underway with Marvin while TCM is on in the background with familiar favorites.
Up next, CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945).
Sure glad our cooking skills are better than Barbara Stanwyck’s. 🤣
Also, I would like to spend a snowy week in that house!
#FilmSky
Up next, CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945).
Sure glad our cooking skills are better than Barbara Stanwyck’s. 🤣
Also, I would like to spend a snowy week in that house!
#FilmSky
Me, when a friend asks if I remember the story The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen?
a close up of a man 's face with water coming out of his nose and mouth .
Alt: A man crying.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Me, when a friend asks if I remember the story The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen?
Christmas Eve late morning movie in bed with coffee:
#NowWatching THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940).
James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are quite good as co-workers who don’t like each other but are secretly falling in love as anonymous pen pals.
Sweet, non-saccharine film.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
#NowWatching THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940).
James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are quite good as co-workers who don’t like each other but are secretly falling in love as anonymous pen pals.
Sweet, non-saccharine film.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Christmas Eve late morning movie in bed with coffee:
#NowWatching THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940).
James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are quite good as co-workers who don’t like each other but are secretly falling in love as anonymous pen pals.
Sweet, non-saccharine film.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
#NowWatching THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940).
James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are quite good as co-workers who don’t like each other but are secretly falling in love as anonymous pen pals.
Sweet, non-saccharine film.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
First watch: RIO GRANDE (1950), last in John Ford’s cavalry trilogy.
It’s a much more personal story of family and (attempted) privilege compared to the first two films in the trilogy, and it’s far less sympathetic toward Apaches than FORT APACHE (1948).
1/2
#FilmSky #western
It’s a much more personal story of family and (attempted) privilege compared to the first two films in the trilogy, and it’s far less sympathetic toward Apaches than FORT APACHE (1948).
1/2
#FilmSky #western
December 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
A Christmas snowfall in the Appalachian Mountains.
Remembering a peaceful wintry view from the back porch of my late parents’ house in southeast Kentucky.
So different from the summertime greenery.
Remembering a peaceful wintry view from the back porch of my late parents’ house in southeast Kentucky.
So different from the summertime greenery.
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A Christmas snowfall in the Appalachian Mountains.
Remembering a peaceful wintry view from the back porch of my late parents’ house in southeast Kentucky.
So different from the summertime greenery.
Remembering a peaceful wintry view from the back porch of my late parents’ house in southeast Kentucky.
So different from the summertime greenery.
Today’s to-do list includes checking out the Christmas lights and holiday hustle-bustle in downtown #Detroit and cozying up to a bar for some holiday cheer with Marvin.
(photos from previous year)
(photos from previous year)
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today’s to-do list includes checking out the Christmas lights and holiday hustle-bustle in downtown #Detroit and cozying up to a bar for some holiday cheer with Marvin.
(photos from previous year)
(photos from previous year)
In tonight’s #NoirAlley feature on TCM—LADY IN THE LAKE (1947)—the viewer becomes the eyes of Philip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery), rarely seen except in mirrors or when talking directly to the camera.
Audrey Totter steals the show in this adaptation of a Raymond Chandler mystery.
#FilmSky #noir
Audrey Totter steals the show in this adaptation of a Raymond Chandler mystery.
#FilmSky #noir
December 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In tonight’s #NoirAlley feature on TCM—LADY IN THE LAKE (1947)—the viewer becomes the eyes of Philip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery), rarely seen except in mirrors or when talking directly to the camera.
Audrey Totter steals the show in this adaptation of a Raymond Chandler mystery.
#FilmSky #noir
Audrey Totter steals the show in this adaptation of a Raymond Chandler mystery.
#FilmSky #noir
Barbara Eden is on this 1957 episode of Perry Mason I’m watching, so Jeannie was obviously out of the bottle eight years before she got her own TV show.
I’ll show myself out.
I’ll show myself out.
a woman wearing a pink scarf around her head and a red hat .
Alt: A gif from I Dream of Jeannie.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Barbara Eden is on this 1957 episode of Perry Mason I’m watching, so Jeannie was obviously out of the bottle eight years before she got her own TV show.
I’ll show myself out.
I’ll show myself out.
First watch:
FORT APACHE, the first in John Ford’s cavalry trilogy, made me think of how thrilling it must’ve been to see it in a movie theater in 1948.
Even watching at home now, it seemed like a landmark, sophisticated #western with remarkable cinematography…
1/3
#FilmSky #MovieSky
FORT APACHE, the first in John Ford’s cavalry trilogy, made me think of how thrilling it must’ve been to see it in a movie theater in 1948.
Even watching at home now, it seemed like a landmark, sophisticated #western with remarkable cinematography…
1/3
#FilmSky #MovieSky
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Sometimes the simplest songs have the most to say.
It takes a while for the lyrics of this song to kick in, but when they do he has so much to say:
Why Can’t We Live Together? - Timmy Thomas
youtu.be/KYx2uZRlJCk?si…
It takes a while for the lyrics of this song to kick in, but when they do he has so much to say:
Why Can’t We Live Together? - Timmy Thomas
youtu.be/KYx2uZRlJCk?si…
Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together (1973)
YouTube video by PilotOfTheAirwaves1
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December 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Sometimes the simplest songs have the most to say.
It takes a while for the lyrics of this song to kick in, but when they do he has so much to say:
Why Can’t We Live Together? - Timmy Thomas
youtu.be/KYx2uZRlJCk?si…
It takes a while for the lyrics of this song to kick in, but when they do he has so much to say:
Why Can’t We Live Together? - Timmy Thomas
youtu.be/KYx2uZRlJCk?si…
Breakfast of champions!
And the packaging even matches.
And the packaging even matches.
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Breakfast of champions!
And the packaging even matches.
And the packaging even matches.
#NowPlaying Curtis Mayfield’s gritty, funky soundtrack, Super Fly (1972)—one of those examples when the music is better than the film.
Top track is about a junkie and societal misfit who’s used and abused with fatal consequences.
Freddie’s Dead
youtu.be/0B6TKClPFQA?si…#MusicSkyky
Top track is about a junkie and societal misfit who’s used and abused with fatal consequences.
Freddie’s Dead
youtu.be/0B6TKClPFQA?si…#MusicSkyky
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
#NowPlaying Curtis Mayfield’s gritty, funky soundtrack, Super Fly (1972)—one of those examples when the music is better than the film.
Top track is about a junkie and societal misfit who’s used and abused with fatal consequences.
Freddie’s Dead
youtu.be/0B6TKClPFQA?si…#MusicSkyky
Top track is about a junkie and societal misfit who’s used and abused with fatal consequences.
Freddie’s Dead
youtu.be/0B6TKClPFQA?si…#MusicSkyky
I once gave my (late) mother a copy of Rob Reiner’s film STAND BY ME (1986) and told her it reminded me of growing up with my close friends in our small Kentucky community, a few miles outside of a once-bustling town.
She loved it but said, “I hope you all didn’t ‘cuss’ like that.”😂
#FilmSky
She loved it but said, “I hope you all didn’t ‘cuss’ like that.”😂
#FilmSky
December 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I once gave my (late) mother a copy of Rob Reiner’s film STAND BY ME (1986) and told her it reminded me of growing up with my close friends in our small Kentucky community, a few miles outside of a once-bustling town.
She loved it but said, “I hope you all didn’t ‘cuss’ like that.”😂
#FilmSky
She loved it but said, “I hope you all didn’t ‘cuss’ like that.”😂
#FilmSky
Brown University. Australia. Rob and Michele Reiner.
Time for a comfort film to close out this bad-news weekend.
#NowWatching THE LADY VANISHES (1938), a #Hitchcock classic.
Who doesn’t like a good train-based mystery?
#FilmSky #mystery
Time for a comfort film to close out this bad-news weekend.
#NowWatching THE LADY VANISHES (1938), a #Hitchcock classic.
Who doesn’t like a good train-based mystery?
#FilmSky #mystery
December 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Brown University. Australia. Rob and Michele Reiner.
Time for a comfort film to close out this bad-news weekend.
#NowWatching THE LADY VANISHES (1938), a #Hitchcock classic.
Who doesn’t like a good train-based mystery?
#FilmSky #mystery
Time for a comfort film to close out this bad-news weekend.
#NowWatching THE LADY VANISHES (1938), a #Hitchcock classic.
Who doesn’t like a good train-based mystery?
#FilmSky #mystery
Nobody told me I’d need an IT degree to hook up the new desktop computer, transfer everything from the old one and try to get the printer working.
Technology is not my friend.
#ImADinosaur
Technology is not my friend.
#ImADinosaur
a man is using a dell computer while a woman looks on
Alt: A man throwing a computer in a dumpster.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Nobody told me I’d need an IT degree to hook up the new desktop computer, transfer everything from the old one and try to get the printer working.
Technology is not my friend.
#ImADinosaur
Technology is not my friend.
#ImADinosaur
Waking up to 7°F with a “feels like” temperature of -4°.
Is there any reason *not* to stay in bed all day and watch movies?
Is there any reason *not* to stay in bed all day and watch movies?
a cartoon cat is laying in bed with an alarm clock and says `` good morning im going back to bed '' .
Alt: A cartoon that says “Good morning. I’m going back to bed.”
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December 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Waking up to 7°F with a “feels like” temperature of -4°.
Is there any reason *not* to stay in bed all day and watch movies?
Is there any reason *not* to stay in bed all day and watch movies?
Hammer Films released a bank heist film, CASH ON DEMAND, in 1961, starring Peter Cushing as a bank manager lured into the scheme after being told his family is being held hostage.
It’s good and it’s showing on TCM’s #NoirAlley at midnight EST tonight and 10am Sunday.
Worth it.
#FilmSky
It’s good and it’s showing on TCM’s #NoirAlley at midnight EST tonight and 10am Sunday.
Worth it.
#FilmSky
December 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Hammer Films released a bank heist film, CASH ON DEMAND, in 1961, starring Peter Cushing as a bank manager lured into the scheme after being told his family is being held hostage.
It’s good and it’s showing on TCM’s #NoirAlley at midnight EST tonight and 10am Sunday.
Worth it.
#FilmSky
It’s good and it’s showing on TCM’s #NoirAlley at midnight EST tonight and 10am Sunday.
Worth it.
#FilmSky
Treadmill music:
One of my favorite electronic tunes of 2025 is from London-based Factory Floor.
#NowPlaying
Tell Me
youtu.be/6j8fd35w4rg?si…
One of my favorite electronic tunes of 2025 is from London-based Factory Floor.
#NowPlaying
Tell Me
youtu.be/6j8fd35w4rg?si…
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Treadmill music:
One of my favorite electronic tunes of 2025 is from London-based Factory Floor.
#NowPlaying
Tell Me
youtu.be/6j8fd35w4rg?si…
One of my favorite electronic tunes of 2025 is from London-based Factory Floor.
#NowPlaying
Tell Me
youtu.be/6j8fd35w4rg?si…