I reviewed the new SF Magazine Adventitious for TangentOnline.

Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert in an odd romantic comedy written by Billy Wilder and directed by Ernst Lubitsch Bluebeard’s 8th Wife

Early Alastair Sim as a sarcastic detective.

Humphrey Bogart’s vampire film. https://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-return-of-doctor-x.html

Science fiction author John Varley has died. John Varley, author of groundbreaking science fiction, died on December 10. Varley burst upon the scene in the late 70s with a series of stories that were breathtaking in their imagination. He won Hugo and Nebula awards with the stories “The Persistence of Vision,” “The Pusher” and “Press

Scene of the Crime — Van Johnson as hard-boiled detective.