Films in 2020: November

Happy December! It’s almost hard to believe there’s just one month left in 2020 now; hopefully, these last 31 days are better than much of the year, and I’m wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season. November is probably my favorite month of the year because of Noirvember, a month-long celebration of all things…

Summer Under the Stars: West Side Story (1961)

TCM’s star of the day is Rita Moreno, and my film pick for the actress is West Side Story, which airs today at 10:00 P.M. (EST). In this modern-day, musical retelling of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a gang of white American teenagers, the Jets, led by Riff (Russ Tamblyn), competes with a rival gang…

Films in 2015: October

I watched a lot of movies in October with the grand total being 63! But nearly half of those were re-watches, mostly thanks to my Disney retrospective that I continued, where I revisited 15 films (from 1951’s Alice in Wonderland to 1988’s Oliver & Company). In celebration of finally being in the future, I also watched the…