Welcome to Two-Candle Hideout. This noir seems rather familiar, but aren’t they all the same movie in the end? Go HERE.

And so a strange week – long, but brisk in tone – winds down to the hallowed Friday. In my world this means a few key traditions: after work, piano; after piano, pizza; after pizza, a nap in which I sink ten fathoms deep; then the pleasures of working all night on the website and [...]

If I can sum it up: the whistles indicate factories; the envelopes are pay envelopes. It’s 1932, and employment is up Up UP! So buy a tuxedo!

So: what the devil are they trying to sell?

With Louise Brooks. Prepare to meet some . . . interesting faces. Go HERE.

Nothing to write home about, alas: an EXTREMELY colorful addition to Sears 1934, here, and 100 Mysteries, a rather visually static and looong movie, here. Only dedication to the 100 Mysteries project makes me do anything about it. Some weeks are like that, you know.

There is a Diner today. Can’t let Halloween go by without a Diner. I haven’t done any for a while for two simple reasons: life got busy, and –
Well, first the Busy part. I’m now firmly seated in the new schedule, and I am starting to exhale. As long as I can nap, it’s [...]

Thursday already? Well, YES. That was a stupid question. Or not: I’ve found that days are smearing together as never before. They’re busier. And I get less done.
But Thursday is still the hell-day on which all duties bear down, and Friday still has its standard release, unchanged through the years. It all comes down [...]

Sitting in the kitchen / family area; mom & child are watching “It’s the Charlie Brown Show Boomers Make Their Kids Watch, Charlie Brown.” Linus berates CB for believing in Santa Clause; CB says it’s a matter of denominational difference.
“Is Linus Jewish?” Natalie asks. Made my day.
Earlier today she came home from school with [...]

I think this might be the first year I’ve ever really enjoyed the classic monster movies. I remember seeing “Bride of Frankenstein” in college, in my dorm room, probably on a lonely weekend – back when you had to wait for these things to roll around on broadcast TV. (Didn’t see “Casablanca” until I was [...]