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Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview.

No doubt, the average modern automobile has more luxury accoutrements than most top of- the-line cars had a generation ago.

A pretty good little B-noir done for Eagle-Lion Films and directed by Richard Fleischer early in his career, Trapped begins like any number of the semi-documentary pictures made in the late '40s, often by Twentieth Century Fox and later wrongly included under that studio's Film Noir DVD banner.

Dr. Fleming wrote in the comments section of his article on Budd Boetticher's Decision at Sundown that Netflix has 90% of titles a film lover can reasonably expect to find.

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2009 with 352 to follow. The moon is waning.

Those of a certain age may remember Shirley Yamaguchi. She was a Japanese singer and actress who made something of a splash in this country during the '50s, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show , starring opposite ...

In a review-meditation written on the wind, Self-Styled Siren, observing the flicker and fall of autumn leaves through her terrace window, reflects upon her magnificent obsession with director Douglas Sirk and ...