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A Christmas Carol (1951): Ghosts visit a miser during the holidays to teach him the errors of his ways. Dir.: Brian Desmond-Hurst Cast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner 86 min./8:30pm CDT/TCM Simply the best version of Dickens’ short novel. The additions are seamlessly Dickensian; the ghost story, vivid (and a little terrifying); the [...] Fargo (1996) erry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. Directors: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare. TV-MA. 9:00 PM, 10:45 PM EST. Sundance Channel. In the wake of [...] WarGames (1983) A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. Director: John Badham. Cast: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman, Barry Corbin. TV-PG. 11:15 AM and 7:00 PM EST. Sundance Channel. Hollywood was a better place [...] Say Anything (1989) A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college. Director:Cameron Crowe. Cast: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor. TV-PG. 11:00 PM EST. Sundance Channel. At his best, Cameron Crowe portrays the sense of yearning and feeling out of place better [...] Wall Street (1987) A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing. Director: Oliver Stone. Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Hal Holbrook, John [...] Air Force (1943) A bomber crew sees World War II action over the Pacific. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Carey, George Tobias. TV-PG. 1:00 PM EST. TCM. Share on Facebook The Dam Busters, The (1955) British flyers try to cripple the Nazis by taking out their dams. Dir: Michael Anderson. Cast: Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Charles Carson. TV-PG. 10:45 PST. TCM. Watch the RAF use the Force use precision flying as they shoot two torpedoes at the Death Star’s exhaust port bounce bombs at [...] Written On The Wind (1956) A young woman marries into a corrupt oil family then falls for her husband’s best friend. Dir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone. TV-PG. 8:45 AM EST. TCM. No one did repression and melodrama like Douglas Sirk — an under appreciated director. This [...] If You Could Only Cook (1935) An unhappy executive gets a job as a butler on a lark, only to fall for the family cook. Dir: William A. Seiter. Cast: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carillo, Lionel Stander. TV-G. 12:00 PM EST. TCM. I think this is the only major Jean Arthur film I [...] Winner Take All (1932) A prize fighter tries to help an invalid and her baby. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: James Cagney, Marian Nixon, Guy Kibbee, Alan Mowbray. TV-G. 11:30 CST. TCM. Also on tomorrow is prior CPOD Madame Curie (3:30 PM). Share on [...] High Fidelity (2000) Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress. Director: Stephen Frears. Cast: John Cusack, Jack Black, Iben Hjejle, Joan Cusack, Lisa Bonet, Tim Robbins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor. TV-PG. 10:00 PM EST. Sundance Channel. With a few exceptions (Serendipity, [...] Scream (1996) A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the “Rules” of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one. Director: Wes Craven. Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, [...] Always Leave Them Laughing (1949) A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Bert Lahr, Alan Hale. TV-G. 7:30 AM EST. TCM. The dramatic parts a slog, but the vaudeville parts are awesome — and Bert Lahr is not to be [...] Rosemary’s Baby (1968) A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life. Director: Roman Polanski. Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy, Charles Grodin. TV-MA. 10:00 [...] Everything Happens at Night (1939) A British reporter competes with an American reporter for the story of a murdered political commentator and for the affections of his ice skater daughter. Cast: Ray Milland, Sonja Henie, Robert Cummings, Leonid Kinsley, Maurice Moscovitch. Director: Irving Cummings. TV-G. 7:30 AM EDT. Fox Movie Channel. Share on [...] Brighton Rock (1947) A small-time hood tries to cover up his murder of a rival. Dir: John Boulting. Cast: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley. TV-PG. 6:00 PM EDT. TCM. Yet another Graham Greene “entertainment”. British gangster films aren’t quite as satisfying as their American counterparts, but Attenborough does a bang up job here [...] The Empire Strikes Back (1980): As Luke trains with Master Yoda to become a Jedi Knight, his friends evade the Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Vader, who is obsessed with turning Skywalker to the Dark Side of the Force. Dir.: Irvin Kershner Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams 124 [...] The Women (1939): A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays. Dir.: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Mary Boland. BW/133 mins. Noon, CDT. TCM. This is a previous CPOD, but worth repeating and rewatching. And, for heaven’s sake, [...] Northanger Abbey (2007): A young woman meets the love of her life while on holiday in Bath, England. Cast: Felicity Jones, JJ Feild, Carey Mulligan 120 min. 7:00pm CDT OvationTV A remake, based upon Jane Austen’s part send-up/part homage to the over-the-top gothic romances that shocked and thrilled 18th century audiences. It was the [...] Batman Begins (2005) Bruce Wayne loses his philanthropic parents to a senseless crime, and years later becomes the Batman to save the crime-ridden Gotham City on the verge of destruction by an ancient order. Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, and Tom Wilkinson | Directed [...] |
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