Ah, the fall. Time for me to watch my wife ritually drown herself in pumpkin spice while I engage in my annual cardigan-centered shopping spree. We are very basic. TCM this month has a day dedicated to Ruth Chatterton (always good!) on the 13th and a lot of really nice Read more
It’s August, so TCM is filled with your favorite stars and good chunks of their filmography to peruse! This means A) there’s some really great days of pre-Codes and B) there are no pre-Codes on the network until August 16th (!). That’s Irene Dunne’s day, with Buster Keaton’s talkies on Read more
Happy July! I hope everyone is having a nice summer so far. The wind has finally kicked up where I live, which has made it an excellent time to sit inside and watch movies. TCM is pretty light on pre-Codes for this month, plus they’re inexplicably showing Central Park twice. Read more
Wow, is it summer already? TCM is pretty light on pre-Code showings this month– one of the downsides of focusing programming on World War II is that pre-War movies got a bit of the shaft. There are a few rarities, so keep your eyes open! To help make up for Read more
Some pretty light pre-Code offerings on TCM this month, but I rushed a bit to get this up in time since there are a few fun ones on May 1st that may be worth checking out. If you haven’t yet, I hope you’re getting your copy of Mark Vieira’s Forbidden Read more
April is shaping up to be a bang-up month for pre-Code fanatics– finally. Sometimes we get our moments. A new book on pre-Code, Forbidden Hollywood: When Sin Ruled the Movies is now on sale. Mark Vieira’s update to his seminal Sin in Soft Focus is a gorgeous tome, filled with Read more
The 31 Days of Oscar is over, so let the good times roll! There’s a ton of great pre-Codes showing in February of all shapes in sizes. Feeling like a ton of Fredric March dramas? Got ’em– he’s star of the month! Constance Bennett weepies? Oh yeah. Weird-ass musical fever Read more
Hey hey, ho ho, it’s … 31 Days of Oscar on TCM, which means that pre-Code content is slim. There’s quality, but I mean– there’s not a single pre-Code on the network until the 7th. Really, the only good news in the pipe is that the Criterion Channel launches on Read more
It’s a new year! I guess that’s a good thing. I doubt– I hope– this year is one filled with better news. Find Convention City! Sort out the mess with Letty Lynton! Someone with some sense start cranking out the pre-Codes from the Fox and Universal vaults! And while I Read more
pic.twitter.com/FDiKBB4NQK — Pre-Code.com (@PreCodeDotCom) November 30, 2018 So Filmstruck is gone. I’m a little misty, a lot angry, and terribly, terribly tired. I eulogized it last month, and November was a bevvy of frustrations as people scrambled to both mourn and save the service. Tens of thousands of people signed Read more