Despite all the Twin Peaks love you've seen here lately, I'm not someone who actively sought out much in the way of the movies of ...

Today marks the something-or-other birthday of Joan Crawford.  Maybe 112th.  As many actresses have done over the years, she lied about h...

I remember trying to watch They Live By Night (1948) a decade or more ago when I was still narrowly defining "noir" as folks ...

As I mentioned previously, as a TV series, Twin Peaks managed to limp along for most of the second half of the second season.  You coul...

Artist Bernie Wrightson of Swamp Thing , Frankenstein and Cycle of the Werewolf fame, has passed.  He had been fighting cancer for som...

Last weekend Turner Classic Movies' Saturday night programming block "TCM Underground" showed Thrashin' , a 1986 movie...

I'm late to the game on Logan (2017) , the third stand-alone movie for Hugh Jackman's portrayal of the X-Men's conflicted br...

Happy St. Patrick's Day from The Signal Watch Here I am having a lovely Irish Whiskey in Dublin's own "Bleeding Horse" p...

Today my brother, Steanso, is 43.  He is old like dirt. At least he managed to bring these two people into our world. That kid lov...

We're watching the new FX series, Feud: Bette and Joan (highly recommended), and it reminded me I'd been meaning to watch Sudde...