Michael Morrison
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Remember The Night (1940) a Sturges penned Christmastime romantic dramedy: Stanwyck is always so good at showing her characters thinking and realizing. MacMurray’s character is not quite the Boy Scout he first seems to be. Beulah Bondi is great too. Love those cold, black Midwestern skies too
December 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Remember The Night (1940) a Sturges penned Christmastime romantic dramedy: Stanwyck is always so good at showing her characters thinking and realizing. MacMurray’s character is not quite the Boy Scout he first seems to be. Beulah Bondi is great too. Love those cold, black Midwestern skies too
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Merry Christmas and remember, All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.
December 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Merry Christmas and remember, All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.
Merry Christmas and remember, All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.
December 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Merry Christmas and remember, All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away.
One of my favorite things about Christmas Carol movies is seeing what they do with the Ghost Of Christmas Past, who is almost impossible to depict onscreen as described by Dickens. The 1971 animated comes closest. Muppets capture the uncanniness, old ones usually give up and do a pretty girl or…
December 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
One of my favorite things about Christmas Carol movies is seeing what they do with the Ghost Of Christmas Past, who is almost impossible to depict onscreen as described by Dickens. The 1971 animated comes closest. Muppets capture the uncanniness, old ones usually give up and do a pretty girl or…
Love this photo of my mom meeting a department store Santa, this would be 1956 or 57. Looks like something out of LIFE Magazine. The little doll is perfect.
December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Love this photo of my mom meeting a department store Santa, this would be 1956 or 57. Looks like something out of LIFE Magazine. The little doll is perfect.
Physically I spent the morning at a very rainy shopping center in Southern California, but mentally I’m in Saul Leiter’s wintry mid century New York.
December 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Physically I spent the morning at a very rainy shopping center in Southern California, but mentally I’m in Saul Leiter’s wintry mid century New York.
Not to jinx it, but it’s almost Christmas Eve and I still haven’t heard Michael Bublé’s Santa Buddy yet this season. A song so awful it’s an affront to God on par with the Tower of Babel. Thank goodness for small miracles.
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Not to jinx it, but it’s almost Christmas Eve and I still haven’t heard Michael Bublé’s Santa Buddy yet this season. A song so awful it’s an affront to God on par with the Tower of Babel. Thank goodness for small miracles.
The Raveonettes - Christmas In Cleveland
Christmas In Cleveland
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December 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Raveonettes - Christmas In Cleveland
I don’t care who you are, 5.5 inches is impressive. Plenty. More than enough. An objectively large amount of rain.
December 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I don’t care who you are, 5.5 inches is impressive. Plenty. More than enough. An objectively large amount of rain.
This sounds delightful, gimme some silly little guys marching around.
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This sounds delightful, gimme some silly little guys marching around.
It only gets lighter from here. Happy Solstice
December 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
It only gets lighter from here. Happy Solstice
There’s 7 maaybe 8 people in the world I’d drive to LAX for. Unfortunately for me, one of them just landed.
December 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
There’s 7 maaybe 8 people in the world I’d drive to LAX for. Unfortunately for me, one of them just landed.
Getting outside before the atmospheric river hits
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Getting outside before the atmospheric river hits
Remember Punch Buggy? Well today in the car the kids invented the 21st century version, the Cyber Slam. Everyone always points out every Cybertruck they see anyways, might as well punch someone too.
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Remember Punch Buggy? Well today in the car the kids invented the 21st century version, the Cyber Slam. Everyone always points out every Cybertruck they see anyways, might as well punch someone too.
“We’re here tonight and that’s enough”
Thanks Paul. Truer words never spoken.
Thanks Paul. Truer words never spoken.
December 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“We’re here tonight and that’s enough”
Thanks Paul. Truer words never spoken.
Thanks Paul. Truer words never spoken.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Trish has been out of town this week and it’s mostly gone as smooth as expected, but I just finished stress eating a donut over the sink, so…
December 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trish has been out of town this week and it’s mostly gone as smooth as expected, but I just finished stress eating a donut over the sink, so…
Watching the new Frankenstein tonight (can you tell Trish is out of town this week?) and looks like after Barry Lyndon’s downfall his house and estate were bought by the Frankensteins. Bet they got a good deal on it too.
December 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Watching the new Frankenstein tonight (can you tell Trish is out of town this week?) and looks like after Barry Lyndon’s downfall his house and estate were bought by the Frankensteins. Bet they got a good deal on it too.
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As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Black Christmas is a good slasher that’s actually pretty funny but man oh man does Margot Kidder as Barb just steal every scene she’s in. Whenever she’s not on screen all the other characters should be asking “Where’s Barb?”
Much closer to Porky’s than A Christmas Story in Bob Clark’s oeuvre.
Much closer to Porky’s than A Christmas Story in Bob Clark’s oeuvre.
December 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Black Christmas is a good slasher that’s actually pretty funny but man oh man does Margot Kidder as Barb just steal every scene she’s in. Whenever she’s not on screen all the other characters should be asking “Where’s Barb?”
Much closer to Porky’s than A Christmas Story in Bob Clark’s oeuvre.
Much closer to Porky’s than A Christmas Story in Bob Clark’s oeuvre.
Pros: Crop circles! We’re overdue for crop circle discourse
Spielbergian aliens
Cons: It’s got that Spielberg Sheen™️ that most of his recent movies have and it bugs me just enough to be distracting
Spielbergian aliens
Cons: It’s got that Spielberg Sheen™️ that most of his recent movies have and it bugs me just enough to be distracting
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Pros: Crop circles! We’re overdue for crop circle discourse
Spielbergian aliens
Cons: It’s got that Spielberg Sheen™️ that most of his recent movies have and it bugs me just enough to be distracting
Spielbergian aliens
Cons: It’s got that Spielberg Sheen™️ that most of his recent movies have and it bugs me just enough to be distracting
Kim Novak’s Christmas tree in Bell, Book and Candle might be the coolest one ever. This is a fun movie and I like that she gets karmic revenge on Jimmy Stewart for Vertigo which came out a few months before this one.
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Kim Novak’s Christmas tree in Bell, Book and Candle might be the coolest one ever. This is a fun movie and I like that she gets karmic revenge on Jimmy Stewart for Vertigo which came out a few months before this one.
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One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
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Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens