Watched:  09/07/2026 Format:  FX Movies on basic cable Viewing:  Second Director:  Steven Somebody I was performing repetitive manual tasks ...

Watched:  09/06/2026 Format:  Amazon? Viewing:  First Director:  Barnet Kellman I kind of remember a spate of these sorts of sweet, fluffy, ...

The great Dolly Parton, musician, storyteller, philanthropist, entrepreneur, amusement park mogul, and one of the best of us, has passed at ...

Watched:  08/05/2026 Format:  TCM on DVR Viewing:  First Director:  Ralph Bakshi Jesus.  Wish I'd seen this 30 years ago.   Oddly, this...

Watched:  08/03/2026 Format:  Criterion Viewing:  First Director:  Michael Winterbottom Somehow in the past two weeks, I was in a group chat...

Watched:  07/15/2026 Format:  TCM Noir Alley Viewing:  First Director:  Anatole Litvak So, this movie is super strange, and maybe in a good ...

As a kid stuck in the suburban sprawl of Austin and then Houston/ Spring, Texas, where music tastes skewed in such a fashion that AC/DC was ...

Singer Bonnie Tyler has passed at the age of 75. From NPR . Tyler was a major force in the 1980's with some hits written by Jim Steinman...

Happy Birthday to pop music icon and occasional actor Kylie Minogue . Kylie is having a good year!  She wrapped up her international Tension...

I had believed David Allan Coe died five years ago, but apparently he just passed .   I do not know what the youths do now, but if you didn...

Nedra, Ronnie and Estelle The final Ronette, Nedra Talley Ross , has passed. A part of the Phil Spector music empire, The Ronette's pl...

Legendary Texas Musician Joe Ely has passed.  He was 78. More here . Ely was part of the Flatlanders and continued to perform up until ver...

Watched:  12/09/2025 Format:  Amazon Viewing:  Unknown Director:  Michael Curtiz I always wonder how contemporary audiences received the Mic...

Watched:  11/30 and 12/1/2025 Format:  Hallmark Viewing:  First for both Director:  AGOOC - Clare Niederpruem / CatCC - Lucie Guest Sunday w...

  Today marks the birthday of Tina Turner , one of the greats of R&B and rock .   Y'all put on her Simply the Best collection and...

1925 marks the founding of what was then the " Missouri Rockets ", in St. Louis, who would swiftly move to New York City and becom...

This item does not appear on the IMDB for Ms. Lacey Chabert under "actor", but under "self" so I'd initially misse...

Watched:  11/16/2025 Format:  Amazon Viewing:  Second Director:  Brian DePalma There's a lot going on in Phantom of the Paradise (1974) ...

  MTV , Music Television , is shutting down music operations .  Specifically in England.  Likely soon to be the rest of Europe.  I assume th...

Watched:  09/28/2025 Format:  Hulu Viewing:  First Director:  Ally Pankiw First - it's remarkable how messed up the music industry was i...