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Film Critic * Cinephile * Women’s March ‘25
Publisher * Editor of:
CineMata’s Movie Madness Blog

There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman “gathering her thoughts”.

https://cinematasmoviemadness.com
Magickal Properties of Water✨

#Witchcraft #witchsky #magick
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge 14 > The Mt. Rushmore of Film Noir

Mary Astor * The Maltese Falcon
Joan Bennett * Scarlet Street & Woman in the Window
Rita Hayworth * The Lady from Shanghai
Barbara Stanwyck * Double Indemnity & The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

#noirvember #TCMParty #noirsky #femmefatale
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"I don't like watching love stories. Same old eternal triangle." Jean Gabin

Here with Michele Morgan, in La Minute de Vérité * 1952 - a triangulated love story.

#dotd #French #cinema #filmsky #noirsky
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
NoirLand’s Faux Femme Fatale > Veronica Lake w/ Alan Ladd

My 3 fave Veronica Lake films: This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key & The Blue Dahlia. Her sweet sexuality never let her be anything other than a “heart of gold” FF - who always got her man by the end credits.

#BOTD #noirsky #femmefatale #film
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
#Australian Gems > Ten Pound Poms & Black Snow🌟🌟

The land down under offers 2 different views of its citizens: Ten Pound Poms (Britbox) explores the history of British immigrants (aka Poms) & Acorn's Black Snow follows Det. James Cormack as he cracks cold cases & his own sanity.

#TVseries #mystery
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge 12 > Sexiest film noir * The Killers 1946

What makes a noir sizzle? Well, obviously, a femme fatale like Ava Gardner’s Kitty Collins - cool and calculating, right up to the double cross.

#noiralley #noirvember #noirsky #femmefatale #crime
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Celebrating #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Indigenous Food Preservation Practices

#Indigenous #Thanksgiving
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Bell, Book & Candle #OTD 1958

Hollywood’s message movie to entrepreneur women, in the guise of comedy, about a witch who falls under the spell of James Stewart. Released in 1958, just as post-war women were beginning to discover second-wave feminism.

#witchsky #empowerment #feminism
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth > Dark Winds

Zahn McClarnon's pragmatic Navajo cop Joe Leaphorn navigates between his indigenous culture and his job in Dark Winds, AMC's neo-noirish western police drama.

#AMC #neonoir #western #IndigenousPeoplesMonth
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."

Remembering Eve Arden’s sardonic wit as she delivers her detached observation of Mildred’s warped offspring in Mildred Pierce * 1945.

#TCMParty #filmsky #Oscar
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge 10 > Favorite Gloria Grahame noir

In a Lonely Place * 1950 * Laurel Gray loves a man who may be a killer, but she’s playing a dangerous game of “I’ll wait and see”.

#noirsky #Oscar
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Zita was ahead of her time…
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
There ya go!
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
#FridayFeelings > Celebrate your #November Aesthetic😎
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge 7 > My Favorite Noir dream sequence

Created by Salvador Dali for the psychological noir, Spellbound, his dream sequences highlighted how we communicate with ourselves while sleeping. Starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck & Leo G. Carroll. Directed by Hitchcock.
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"Who is Greta Garbo?" - asked Louis B. Mayer.

"She is a great beauty - a type you get in front of a camera once in a hundred years; and she is a great actress, who will be the greatest in the world", answered Mauritz Stiller, her mentor.

#icon #filmsky
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Scorpio Sisters > Dorothy Dandridge & Hedy Lamarr

The Hollywood studio system steered their careers almost into oblivion, but Dandridge’s smoldering talent and Lamarr’s scientific genius continue to fascinate and inspire us today.

#Filmsky #STEM #scorpio
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“To me the word witch is a delicious word, filled with the most ancient memories.” ~Laurie Cabot 🪄

#Witchsky #witchcraft #magick #occultsky
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
November’s Silent Gold Star Birthdays⭐️

Corrine Griffith, Mae Marsh, Nita Naldi, Mabel Normand

Who said, “we had faces then”? Norma Desmond from Sunset Blvd, of course! And gazing at these four fabulous portraits, she hit the mark🎯

#TCMParty #silentfilms #filmsky
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera."

Remembering Gene Tierney in her best-loved roles > Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, Dragonwyck, & The Razor's Edge.

[Photo grid: Sylvana Regina]
#classicmovies #TCMParty #filmsky
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge 5 > A film noir I’d show a newbie👀

There’s more thrills & double-crosses in The Killers * 1946, + a fierce femme fatale to die for. Starring newcomer Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, and directed by Robert Siodmak.

#noiralley #noirsky #filmsky #Oscar
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#MondayMotivation ☕️

With the power and versatility of coffee, it’s a perfect day to brew up some magic.🪄

#coffeecraft #witchsky #witchcraft
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#NoirvemberChallenge 3 > Film noir that made you a fan🌟

You had me at Double Indemnity * 1944, with femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck, sucker Fred MacMurray, and sharp-as-a-tack Edward G. Robinson. Directed by Billy Wilder and nominated for 7 #Oscars.

#noirsky #filmsky
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
When Monday is not on your calendar...

#MondayMood
#BetteDavis
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“I was born on the night of #Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.”

[Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch]

#Pagansky #Witchsky #Wiccasky
October 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM