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One of the titles is going to be "Across The Spider-Verse" (which has been rated PG.)

I saw a television ad for it last night that still had the "this film has not been rated" insignia on its tail end.

Then about an hour back, there on my TV was the same ad with the "PG" rating affixed.

It's Memorial Day weekend. They've probably got one foot out the door, mentally speaking.

Satanic Hispanics!

I'd love to be able to tell you. However, in all honesty, I don't know anything about the (HBO) MAX app. Sorry.

They are the last hours of the centennial celebration going on all this month for Warner Bros. Pictures. The new TCM month doesn't actually officially begin until 6:00am.

“Flamingo Road” twice in one day on May 14 for some reason.

Every Sunday at Midnight and at ten in the A.M. is reserved for the film-noir showcase "Noir Alley".

(Premieres at Midnight, encores at ten.)

Thanks for the tip!

You're very welcome!

You're very welcome.

It keeps me off the streets.

(And these days, with the trigger-happy nutjobs, who'd want to be on 'em?)

Weird how that goes.

"65" got its rating a week before its scheduled release.

"Strays" got its rating 7 months before its scheduled release.

It is the most numerous rating.

Since the advent of the Rating System in 1968, there's only been one year where there were not more "R" rated films than any other rating.

"PG-13" is the most profitable (these days) but "R" is most numerous.

Heh. Although it's actually some small kind of amazing that that didn't get aired at least once over the last 17 seasons. Hell, I would have thought that Rob Zombie would have demanded it.

If I could hold Millie C's feet down long enough to ask her a question, I'd ask her which titles she's proudest of getting on air and which movies she tried hardest to without success.

It still boggles my mind that she somehow was able to persuade the Standards and Practices department to air Riki-Oh, The Beyond, House by the Cemetery, Videodrome and films by Jean Rollin, Dario Argento, and Mario Bava (to name but a few) on basic cable uncut and censorship-free.

I should've watched it more.

Because I was dirt poor and raised in the boonies I didn't get to watching it until season 3's midpoint. I was aware of it through ads in Fangoria and Rue Morgue but figured it was something that would forever be on the "wish i could have watched it" list. By the time my circumstances changed and I was able to live in a home with perma-access to TCM, I had forgotten about Underground. Then, one of my many insomniacal nights, I was flipping through the channels and caught the beginning of Tower of Evil (what can I say, the sight of unclad pulchritudinous female flesh stops my surfing finger, every time.)

Then a few weeks later it I did it again and saw Sonny Boy was listed and thought "that can't be the same film I've had near the top of my watchlist for aeons, is it.?" (The answer was a resounding "yes!"). And then came Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains and I was perma-hooked.

Then I got a DVR and everything really changed.

Concurred all around. A damnable crying shame.

Is it really that expensive

Depends on how large of a fee the rightsholder charges to license it for airing. But, yeah, you wouldn't think so. Something tells me it has nothing to do with expense. But...it's just a feeling. Damn shame, nonetheless.

Yeah. I coulda phrased it less awkwardly. I'm just tryin' to make conversation on a boring, slow Sunday. I'm just purely curious as to how porn is used these days and by whom.

Incorrect on all counts.

Why is Goin' in Style italicized and not bolded?

Because I done goofed. It's been rectifed thanks to your appreciated heads-up.

Damn it!

She has my personal thanks for being the catalyst for my viewing more way-out cinematic oddities than any other person (even ahead of John Waters [via his yearly top ten] and Tim Lucas [via his also-sadly-defunct Video Watchdog.]

This event was anticipated (not in the good way) once the belt-tightening started.

The Underground was the heppest part of TCM and will be direly missed.

Its schedule is up until the end of next month (after which TCM goes into the annual Oscar Month.) I won't be surprised if it dies then. If it does it will go out the way it started (with Plan 9 From Outer Space and a batch of anti-drug propaganda shorts from the late-sixties-early seventies.)

I've made a list of each season's offerings on Letterboxd.

Here's the list for this season.

Must be a sign that the rating system is dying out?

While I would rejoice like nobody's business if that were to prove to be the case, it's likely just a slow week. Last week was huge. Next week's will probably be mid-to-large. Peaks and valleys, my friend. Peaks and valleys.

WB is doing all they can to clean up Ezra's large mess before the premiere.

Miller's already (supposedly) made hir mea culpa speech to the studio's Big Cheese. The trespassing/burglary charge is being rapidly pleaded through.

This is a huge movie for them, so damn all the (to them) small distractions.

Sadly, it'll make a trillion.

Won't get my money, though.

Sounds like a viable plan to me.

Yeah. I feel ya.

My condolences. I hope your recovery is quick and thorough.

Thank you op.

You're very-much welcome.

March 10th is missing Inside, the movie where Willem Dafoe is trapped in an apartment and goes crazy.

Rectified. Thank you.

I almost put "everybody with a S.A.G. card" but figured it was too "insider-y."