Divers and Sundry

Kyoikusenga Ubasuteyama is a 1925 Japanese animated short film about a feudal lord who hates the elderly and so decides to exile each perso...

An Inspector Calls is a 2015 TV film adaptation of the J. B. Priestly play with the same name. David Thewlis plays the Inspector. traile...

Broken Lance is a 1954 western starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner.Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Hugh O'Brian, Earl Holliman, and E.G...

Shimmer is a 10-page long story by Claudette Menalson about star-crossed faerie love ruined by human contact. I went into it expecting ...

They Live By Night is a 1948 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray in his first feature film. Farley Granger stars. Here's the young ...

The Legacy Human is yet another book I found free online via BookBub . I read it through Google Play on my laptop, and can't be hap...

Murder She Said is a 1961 movie based on an Agatha Christie mystery novel. It stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. Joan Hickson has a ...

Night Train to Memphis : sung by Roy Acuff , who was born in Tennessee and died there on this date in 1992 at the age of 89.

Nerves is a 1919 silent German expressionist film. Stranger on the 3rd Floor says, Here’s what [German] Wikipedia has to say about ...

image from Amazon.com Several people have suggested options for free books online, and I'm exploring what seems to me to be a wealth...

Captain Calamity is a 1936 pirate movie.

A silver bowl, a lemon, a knife, a bottle and a glass on a salver on a draped marble ledge: by Louise De Hem , who died on November 22,...

The Proud Rebel is a 1958 western directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland. John Carradine, Dean Jagger, C...

The Roman Hat Mystery is the first of the Ellery Queen detective/mystery series. This writer knows his stuff. It was written in 1928 but...

Thieves' Highway is a 1949 film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, and Barbara L...

I'm trying a new-to-me thing this year. One of the earliest of Advent traditions has the observance beginning on the Feast of St. Marti...

The Little Prince is a 1943 book, which I read in French back in the days when I knew some French. I have read it several times in the Eng...

The Tempest is a 1960 television adaptation of the Shakespeare play . Directed by George Schaefer, it stars Maurice Evans as Prospero, Rich...

Ether Breather (1939) is the first published science fiction story of Theodore Sturgeon . You can read it online here or here . It begi...

What a delightful birthday present for my recent special day!