popcorn and red wine: March 2016

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

TCM's April 2016 Star of the Month, Judy Garland

Friday, April 1

7:00 pm Pigskin Parade (1936)

8:45 pm Listen, Darling (1938)

10:15 pm Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

12:00 am Babes in Arms (1939)

1:45 am Everybody Sing (1938)

3:30 am Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Little Nellie Kelly, 1940

Friday, April 8

7:00 pm The Wizard of Oz (1939)

9:00 pm The Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990)

10:00 pm Strike Up the Band (1940)

12:15 am Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

2:00 am Babes on Broadway (1941)

4:00 am Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

Friday, April 15

7:00 pm For Me and My Gal (1942)

9:00 pm Girl Crazy (1943)

10:45 pm Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

12:45 am The Clock (1945)

2:30 am Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

4:45 am Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

Words and Music, 1948

Friday, April 22

7:00 pm The Harvey Girls (1946)

9:00 pm Easter Parade (1948)

11:00 pm The Pirate (1948)

1:00 am Summer Stock (1950)

3:00 am In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

4:45 am Words and Music (1948)

Friday, April 29

7:00 pm A Star is Born (1954)

10:15 pm A Child is Waiting (1962)

12:15 am Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

3:30 am Gay Purr-ee (1962)

Monday, March 14, 2016

#ManCrushMonday St. Patrick's Day Special: John Wayne in "The Quiet Man" (1952)

Maybe I'm biased towards a fellow Iowan (Wayne, or rather, Morrison, having been born in Winterset) or my Irish ancestry, but Good Lord, wasn't he just gorgeous in "The Quiet Man?" Retired American boxer Sean Thornton comes back to his birth place in Ireland and ready to put his mysterious past behind him. But he finds himself infatuated with Mary Kate (Maureen O'Hara) and incurs the wrath of her older brother, his past just might catch back up with him. There's something strangely attractive about Wayne in this movie than the others, maybe it was because he was able to stretch his comedic chops or maybe it was that undeniable chemistry with Maureen O'Hara in their third movie together. Either way, he is strong, silent, and utterly mysterious, just like I like my old Hollywood actors.