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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. Her most recent post is in honor of Women’s History Month – a worthy topic if ever there was one! For Film Friday #7, Kristina invites us to pick 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 resurrected series here at Shadows and Satin and over at the blog of my pal Kristina, Speakeasy, where each month we’ll 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 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. She recently posted a prompt in honor of Oscar season, which is one of my favorite times of the year – so you can imagine how I much I’ve been looking read more

If you’ve been around the blog for the last several months, you might remember me referencing some big projects that I was working on, and I just wanted to share some info about one of them. On February 24, 2025, the Film Masters company (whose blog I regularly contribute to) will release Paul read more

As I’ve mentioned a few times here at Shadows and Satin, I spent a lot of time in 2024 working on some big projects – one of which I talked about here. During those months, I was honored to receive a Sunshine Blogger Award from Rebecca over at the Taking Up Room blog, and I couldn’t be more read more

Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the monthly 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 trying read more

Pre-Code Crazy is the resurrected series here at Shadows and Satin and over at the blog of my pal Kristina, Speakeasy, where each month we’ll 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 intac read more

It all started in Queens, New York, with the 1927 murder of Albert Snyder by his wife, Ruth and her corset salesman lover, Judd Gray. The case served as the inspiration for The Postman Always Rings Twice, the 1934 debut novel of newspaper reporter-turned-author James M. Cain, which tells the tale of read more

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m pleased to give my readers the chance to win the DVD of my all-time favorite documentary — MGM: The Lion Roars, released in 1992 and hosted by Patrick Stewart. To enter, just request a sample electronic copy of the Dark Pages film noir newsletter b read more

As I mentioned in a recent post, I celebrated TCM’s 2024 Summer Under the Stars event by recommending a picture I’d seen, as well as identifying one to watch that I hadn’t. I covered the first 10 new-to-me pictures in this post, and today I’m moving on to the next 10. Here goes . . . August read more

As I often say around these parts, my favorite month of the year is August, when TCM serves up its Summer Under the Stars (SUTS) series, where a different classic film star is featured every day and the channel airs 24 hours of their movies. This year, you might recall, for each day of the series, I read more

Once again . . . Happy New Year! Welcome to your first edition of the Film Noir Files, where my pal, Kristina, of the Speakeasy blog, and I recommend a film noir feature that’s airing on TCM in the coming month (and try not to select the same picture). Let’s dive in! I have to be honest – except read more

Happy New Year, dear readers, and welcome to 2025 here at Shadows and Satin! As I mentioned in my last post from 2024, my pal Kristina, of the Speakeasy blog, and I are teaming up to resurrect our old series, Pre-Code Crazy. As part of this collaboration, we’ll both recommend a pre-Code featur read more

Now that we have another Noirvember under our collective belts, it’s time to get back to our regularly scheduled programming. Here’s what’s on deck on TCM in the month of December in the pre-Code and film noir departments… Satiny Pick: December 2nd My Satiny pick for December read more

Parting is such sweet sorrow . . . and the end of Noirvember is a drag. But it’s been another fabulous celebration of those shadowy films that we love so much, and I’m thankful for everyone who came along for the ride. Whether you read a post, or clicked the “like” button, or read more

As we make our way to the conclusion of Double Indemnity week, it’s a pleasure to take this opportunity to salute one of the best things about this gem: the exquisite writing. Whether it was one liners, monologues, or dialogues between characters, Double Indemnity served up some of the most deliciou read more

It’s my favorite noir and one of my favorite films of all time. So you know there’s lots about Double Indemnity that I’m thankful for. Here are just a few… The opening of the film, which depicts the silhoette of a behatted man on crutches, slowly moving toward us, accompanied read more

I love lots of things – baking sweet treats (like tonight’s apple turnovers), reorganizing cabinets, browsing the stacks at my downtown library . . . And taking classic movie quizzes. I hope you do, too, because I’m serving up a super-sized quiz on this week’s focus film, Double read more

After Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, in that order, Barbara Stanwyck is one of my favorite actresses. How could she not be, with her performances in pre-Code gems like Night Nurse (1931), Ten Cents a Dance (1931), and Baby Face (1933); first-rate romantic comedies including The Lady Eve and Ball of read more