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With Noirvember 2025 right around the corner (and down the street a bit), I thought this was a perfect time to review my entries from last year’s event, which featured daily posts focusing on four of my all-time favorite noirs: Mildred Pierce (1945), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1944), Out read more

As you may know, 2025 marked the second year that I celebrated TCM’s Summer Under the Stars event by recommending a film each day as well as selecting a new-to-me feature that I would watch and write about. Last year, I didn’t get around to watching all of the films and starting my wrap-up posts read more

Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the monthly noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the other has selected until we post, and part of the fun is tr read more

The Beast of the City (1932) opens with a declaration from then-president Herbert Hoover: “Instead of the glorification of cowardly gangsters, we need the glorification of policemen who do their duty and give their lives in public protection. If the police had the vigilant, universal backing of publ read more

For several years now, I’ve wanted to devote a blog post to the couples of noir. Not couples who ultimately failed to survive noir’s shadowy realm, like Anna and Steve of Criss Cross (1949) fame, or Gun Crazy’s (1950) Annie Laurie Starr and Bart Tare. Instead, I visualized taking a look at those read more

Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the monthly noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the other has selected until we post, and part of the fun is tr read more

Pre-Code Crazy is the monthly series here at Shadows and Satin and over at the blog of my pal Kristina, Speakeasy, where each month we recommend a pre-Code film for you to watch on TCM – we never know what the other has selected until we post, and we try to never pick the same movie! The pre-Code read more

It’s about that time, y’all! Time for my favorite month of the year, because from August 1st through August 31st, I’ll be basking in the glow of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars! In case you weren’t aware, every August TCM devotes each day of the month to a different classic movie star and airs read more

Just when you thought I’d written my last word about the 2025 TCM Film Festival, here comes a final chapter! I recently joined my buddy Aurora Bugallo, of the Once Upon a Screen blog, on the Watching Classic Movies podcast, hosted by another pal, Kendahl Cruver. I originally met them both, yea read more

On the heels of my “Things I Learned from Classic Movies” post, here comes another Something Completely Different! On Christmas Eve 2024, my Pre-Code Crazy/Film Noir Files pal Kristina (author of the Speakeasy blog) invited me to participate in a cinematic scavenger hunt of sorts. Like the fellas read more

Classic movies are nothing if not entertaining – I keep a running watchlist on my phone, I frequently indulge in adding more DVDs to my collection, and I have hundreds of VHS tapes (you read that right) in my library, containing countless movies waiting to be seen. But classic movies do more than read more

As I mentioned in my recap on the 2025 TCM Film Festival, one of the films I saw was the 1976 film Car Wash, which starred Ivan Dixon and Bill Duke, and featured appearances from a spate of now-familiar faces, including Franklin Ajaye, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Clarence Muse, Garrett Morris, Mel read more

As I’ve said before about the TCM film festival, it was the best of times . . . it was the best of times! And if you ask me, there’s never a bad time to relieve those awesome experiences, so I hope you’ll join me in skipping down memory lane as I travel a few months back in time to the 2025 event. read more

You know the drill. Better late than really, really late, amirite? The 2025 TCM Film Festival (TCMFF) may have ended nearly three months ago, but the fun and excitement are as fresh today as they were in April – and I hope you’ll join me in my recap of my fest experience this year! Today’s post read more

For this month’s Film Noir Files pick, I’m playing a little fast and loose with my own criteria. Generally speaking, I don’t recommend films that I’ve written about before on Shadows and Satin, but this time, I’m squeezing through a tiny loophole. My recommended film is Born to Kill (1947), read more

Pre-Code Crazy is the monthly series here at Shadows and Satin and over at the blog of my pal Kristina, Speakeasy, where each month we recommend a pre-Code film for you to watch on TCM – we never know what the other has selected until we post, and we try to keep our lengthy streak intact by never read more

One of the things I enjoy most about classic film is taking cinematic deep dives into genres with which I’m unfamiliar. During the pandemic shutdown, I discovered westerns, which resulted in adding a whole new group of movies to my list of favorites – including Yellow Sky (1948), Red River (1948), read more

My pal Kristina, over at the Speakeasy blog, has a cool feature where she offers a prompt and invites bloggers to answer the question on their blogs. I’m waaay behind on responding to her most recent post – I just now saw it while doing some catch-up in reading her blog, and I couldn’t read more

TCM is going pre-Code crazy. Again!! On Monday, June 23, for reasons that I can’t quite figure out (but why look a gift cable channel in the . . . screen?), TCM is serving up a veritable smorgasbord of pre-Code features on Monday, June 23rd. If you love pre-Code like I do – and I’ll bet you do read more

Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the monthly noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the other has selected until we post, and part of the fun is tr read more