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📽 Beautiful shot from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958)

"I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here." Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) collects his winnings in Casablanca (1942)

Day 1706 of my 3 day war. Vucic lost in Serbia, Bolsonaro lost in Brazil and Donald couldn't rig a casino he owns, never mind the midterms. I remain a master strategist.

Seems this is a pattern. Oct 30, 2022: Lula wins the runoff election in Brazil Luka has 44 points and 5 assists in a win Oct. 25, 2026: Lula wins the runoff election in Brazil Luka has 52 points and 8 assists in a win

Tom Neal, 'Detour' (1945). To hear him tell it, he was a victim of circumstances — but was he? (Click link to read) #filmnoir crimeonfilm.com/his-chilling...

20 October 1882 – 1956 Bela Lugosi, (b. Blaskó), 73, Hungarian-US actor Dracula (Broadway + 1931 film) * Murders in the Rue Morgue * The Black Cat * Mark of the Vampire * The Raven * Son of Frankenstein * The Dark Eyes of London * Ninotchka * The Wolf Man * The Bodysnatcher * The Black Sleep (1956)

Wait til he finds out about Old York

17 October 1920 – 1966 Montgomery Clift, 45, US actor. Oscar nominated: The Search (1948) A Place in the Sun (1951) From Here to Eternity (1953) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) The Search * Red River * The Heiress * I Confess * Raintree County * Suddenly, Last Summer * Wild River * The Misfits

OK, this one is particularly funny but normally I wouldn't want to learn about anything named Scaramucci that isn't delicious Italian pasta.

The Fact Kuzma is launching a podcast called read the room is absolutely the most on the nose thing ever. This fucking dude can not read a fucking room to save his damn life.

A real 10/10!

Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi photographed by Ray Jones, 1932

Chicago cop Johnny Kelly (Gig Young) plans to leave his job and his wife. But his younger brother is getting in deep with an unsavory character who does dirty work for a corrupt lawyer. And the lawyer wants Johnny in his pocket, too. "City That Never Sleeps" (1953) #filmnoir

Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 14, 1964.

Always nice to see my fantasy league sweethearts getting the bag.

Directed by Sergio Leone (1966).

Weird moment where Final Fantasy VII touches on live-streamed executions

RJ Mitte (1992–2026)

Monday *Boris Karloff in The Mummy (1932) 19 days until Halloween 🎃

10/11/44: Otto Preminger's ATG #FilmNoir Laura w/Tierney, Andrews, Webb, Price More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... @cinemelo.bsky.social: ernstcast.podbean.com/e/s5e075-ott... @meganabbott.bsky.social / @libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

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And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

In "Chinatown at Midnight" (1949), interior designer Clifford Ward (Hurd Hatfield) steals a valuable jade vase from a Chinatown shop and guns down two people. The police have only one lead in the case: the sound of the killer's voice. #filmnoir

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Remembering John Lennon, born on this day, 1940. His music will live on forever.

Mark Stone being awesome while skating like a de-aged Robert De Niro in The Irishman is one of my favorite hockey things.

Dead Poets Society (1989) Director: Peter Weir

In 1930s Los Angeles, murder and corruption cloud the city's pastel vistas. He who controls the water supply is king, and private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) stumbles upon a scheme to grab land, money and natural resources from humble farmers. "Chinatown" (1974) #neonoir

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Gun Jack 'Tekken 3' PlayStation NAMCO Sounds

I stopped the total obliteration of the world first when I defeated Sephiroth, dumbass.

Muddy 'Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back' PlayStation

Happy Birthday to Nosferatu on the Super Nintendo! --- #retrobirthday #retrogamerspodcast #nintendo #snes #nosferatu

Eva Marie Saint with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954) "Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else"?

RIP Eva Marie Saint, 1924-2026

Typewriters are so much cooler than computers. #AllThePresidentsMen #TCMParty

No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.

4 October 1946 – Susan Sarandon, (née Tomalin), 80, US actress, activist. 🇵🇸 One Oscar: Dead Man Walking (1996) Four nominations: Atlantic City (1982) Thelma & Louise (1992) Lorenzo's Oil (1993) The Client (1995) The Rocky Horror Picture Show * Pretty Baby * The Hunger * Witches of Eastwick * Feud

A perfect trifecta of morons welcomes David Ellison to X as Ellison announces that he will honor both Paramount and Warner Bros. by renaming the new company Skydance.

Happy October, Noiristas! It's time to celebrate a month of #noirror with The Seventh Victim (1943). Directed by Mark Robson and starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, and Hugh Beaumont. Produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures.📽️🕸️#filmnoir #horror #frightclub

Scarlet Street (1945) "Kitty and Millie live together in a 'modest' apartment, which becomes a focal point for tensions over Kitty’s abusive, two-bit crook boyfriend, Johnny Prince, (Dan Duryea), constantly hanging around." "Can't you get those Lazy Legs off that couch baby, and wash the dishes?"

Happy 91st birthday to Julie Andrews. Pictured here in Mary Poppins, 1964.

Nina Wins 'Tekken 3' PlayStation

Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger at the London premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Elisha Cook Jr., Victor Mature, ‘I Wake Up Screaming’ (1941). Elevator operators are mostly a thing of the past, but they live on in film noir and sometimes serve as the focal point of crime dramas. #filmnoir (Click link to read.) crimeonfilm.com/cable-guys-t...

Celebrating #botd for noir queen Lizabeth Scott with Too Late for Tears (1949) dir by Byron Haskin and starring Don DeFore and Dan Duryea. The screenplay was written by Roy Huggins, and developed from a serial he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post. 🎂📽️ #filmnoir

"I'm a Medford man, Medford, Oregon, Mr. Keyes." #EdwardGRobinson #FredMacMurray #PorterHall #DoubleIndemnity #BillyWilder #FilmSky #MovieSky