Musica Moonday

Anyone growing up in the northeast US during the pre-digital analog TV era in the 1970s-80s will to this very day undoubtedly associate a few specific movies that aired annually in November (usually around Thanksgiving) with the gluttonous turkey-centric holiday: Laurel and Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) on WPIX channel 11 and King Kong (1933) on WOR channel 9 on Thanksgiving Day along with King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) and Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971) on WOR the day after Thanksgiving.

(For more about this regional holiday programming see this excellent overview by Joe Cascio at DVD Drive-In.)

There are a few other fantastic films that I also personally associate with late November and Thanksgiving due to having seen them for the first time as a kid around this time of year: The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976), The Beatles' Yellow Submarine (1968) and the Rankin/Bass adaptations of The Hobbit (1977) and its semi-sequel The Return of the King (1980), from whence the following Orc marching/protest song comes from.

Dedicated to anyone that doesn't want to go to work today or is just having a bad case of the Mondays, here's "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way!":

Room 237

Just watched Room 237 (2012) on Netflix; an exploration of some truly bugnuts crazy theories on the meaning behind Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining (1980).  I loved it--it definitely made me want to watch The Shining again...and again...and again...

Rest in Peace Robin Williams

Robin Williams
1951-2014

"Blow Me Down" from Popeye (1980):