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Weekly Wayback: Pop-Culture Anniversaries for Feb. 1-7, 2025
Movies, TV, music and more celebrating anniversaries the week of Feb. 1-7, 2025, including Disney’s “Pinocchio,” Sugarhill Gang’s self-titled debut album, James Taylor’s “Sweet Baby James” and “What’s My Line?”

TCM Celebrates Gene Hackman’s 95th Birthday With a Mini Movie Marathon
The Hollywood legend retired 20 years ago but still looms large.

Weekly Wayback: Pop-Culture Anniversaries for Jan. 25-31, 2025
Movies, TV, music and more celebrating notable anniversaries the week of Jan. 25-31, 2025, including “National Velvet,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “We Are the World,” “Before Sunrise” and others.

Day-by-Day Guide to TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar 2025
Check out all of the films, categories and stars featured during the 2025 installment of Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar.

Set Those DVRs! Best Classic Movies on TV This Week: January 5-11
Highlights this week include an Elvis marathon on TCM to honor his 90th Birthday plus many ’80s classics.

Best Classic Movies on TV This Week: December 29-January 4
Notable classic movies airing this week include ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ and ‘Grease,’ plus a New Year’s Rockin’ Day marathon on TCM

Best Classic Movies on TV This Week: December 23-28
Notable classic movies airing this week include ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Footloose,’ plus many Holiday favorites.

Hitchcock’s Classic ‘North by Northwest’ Turns 65
To celebrate the anniversary, the film has finally been released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray.

Best Classic Movies on TV This Week: December 15-21
Notable classic movies airing this week include ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Footloose,’ plus many Holiday favorites.

Best Classic Cinema on TV This Week: December 8-14
Notable classic movies airing this week include ‘Trading Places’ and ‘The Color Purple,’ plus a Marilyn Monroe Icon-a-Thon!

Remembering Henry Winkler & George C. Scott’s Adaptations of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Both made-for-TV movies — Winkler’s An American Christmas Carol (1979) and Scott’s A Christmas Carol (1984) — remain wonderfully enjoyable takes on Dickens’ classic tale.

Classic Movies You Love Airing This Week: December 1-7
Where to watch everything from ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ to ‘Grease’ this coming week.

TCM Invites You to Spend ‘Sundays With Carol Burnett’
The series will pair classic films that were parodied in sketches on The Carol Burnett Show (including Gone With the Wind, which was spoofed as “Went With the Wind,” with Burnett wearing that famous “curtain dress”).

Classic Movies You Love Airing This Week: November 24-30
Where to watch everything from ‘Gilda’ to ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ this coming week.

Pluto TV’s James Bond Channel Has Returned
The Pluto TV 007 channel offers 20 of the 25 movies in the official James Bond film franchise from Eon Productions, ranging from the very first film, 1962’s “Dr. No,” to the most recent, 2021’s “No Time to Die.”

How Elizabeth Taylor’s Role in ‘Giant’ Foreshadowed Her Humanitarian Legacy
Tim Mendelson, who was Elizabeth Taylor’s personal assistant for over two decades, exclusively talked with us about the star’s similarity to her outspoken ‘Giant’ character and other aspects of her public and personal lives.

Classic Movies You Love Airing This Week: November 17-23
Where to watch everything from ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ to ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ this coming week.

Classic Movies You Love Airing This Week: Nov. 10-16
Where to watch everything from ‘All About Eve’ to ‘Die Hard 2’ this coming week.

A New Godzilla Movie Is on Its Way
Toho has greenlit a new Godzilla movie from ‘Godzilla Minus One’ director Takashi Yamazaki. The Japanese studio teased the news in an “Emergency Announcement” bulletin akin to the ones heard in old-school Godzilla features.

Witchy Movies for All Occasions
From fun/funny titles like “I Married a Witch” and kind of scary ones like Jim Henson’s “The Witches,” to outright terrifying classics like “Suspiria,” we’ve conjured up several movies about witches that you might want to sit a spell and watch.

Disney’s ‘Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ Is Still Spooky Fun After 75 Years
Produced as part of 1949’s ‘The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad’ along with ‘The Wind in the Willows,’ Disney’s take on Washington Irving’s tale about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman is beautifully animated, funny and scary.

Bela Lugosi Is TCM’s October 2024 Star of the Month
The first four Wednesdays of October 2024 feature evening lineups of Bela Lugosi classics, including the horror/mystery titles for which he is most known, like 1931’s “Dracula,” but also his roles in unexpected genres, like the beloved 1939 comedy “Ninotchka.”

Deborah Kerr Birthday Celebration on TCM
Marking what would have been legendary actress Deborah Kerr’s 103th birthday on Sept. 30, 2024, TCM will be airing several of her most memorable films.

Creepiest Horror Movies From the Silent Era
These films may have been released a century or more ago, but don’t dismiss the enduringly scary effectiveness of titles like ‘Nosferatu,’ ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,’ ‘Häxan’ and other early 20th century horror classics.

Japan & the U.S. Had Some Weird Frankenstein Movies in the ’60s
During the 1960s, the tale of ‘Frankenstein’ was given a kaiju spin by Japan’s Toho Studios, while in America, a very low-budget production pitted Wild West outlaw Jesse James against Frankenstein’s daughter.

Lauren Bacall Is TCM’s September 2024 Star of the Month
The Hollywood icon was born Sept. 16, 1924, and died Aug. 12, 2014, at age 89. TCM celebrates the 100th anniversary of Lauren Bacall’s birth with Star of the Month movie lineups.

‘Rear Window’ Will Be in Theaters for Two Days in August 2024
Ahead of its 70th anniversary, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 suspense classic Rear Window will be on the big screen for a very limited time.

Fun Facts About Lugosi & Karloff’s 1940 Fright Flick ‘Black Friday’
The movie’s director went on to work with Abbott and Costello, Clint Eastwood and multiple wisecracking animals.

‘The Tattered Dress’ Starring Jeanne Crain Makes Its TCM Network Premiere Today
‘The Tattered Dress’ also came out in theaters on August 20, 1957.

The ‘Poltergeist’ House Is Up for Sale
The home where much of the 1982 horror classic Poltergeist was filmed is being sold for the first time in 45 years. Don’t worry; the tongue-in-cheek real estate listing assures us that “this house is clean.”