​SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 30: Michael Busch #29 of the Chicago Cubs bats in the National League Wild Card game against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on September 30, 2026 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images) | Getty Images It’s the end of another week here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and sit with us. It’s warm and dry in here. There is no cover charge. We have a few tables still available. There’s a two-drink minimum, but bring your own beverage.BCB After Dark is the place for you to talk baseball, music, movies, or anything else you need to get off your chest, as long as it is within the rules of the site. The late-nighters are encouraged to get the party started, but everyone else is invited to join in as you wake up the next morning and into the afternoon.Last night, I asked you about your choice between three free agent starting pitchers. While admitted that Tarik Skubal would probably be everyone’s first choice (depending on his contract), 48 percent of you picked Michael King as your first choice of the three I let you pick from. Freddy Peralta was second with 35 percent of the vote.Here’s the part with the jazz and the movies. We’d love it if you stick around for that. But it’s not required. We’re here to serve you.Tonight we’re featuring Chicago’s own pianist Patricia Barber, playing a Fleetwood Mac (yes) song, “Black Magic Woman.” The song is best known in the US from the cover by Santana, but it was written by Peter Green and first appeared as a single released by Fleetwood Mac in 1968. This performance is from 1999.I’m going to do something a little different tonight and give you three short essays on three different films that I watched this week. I don’t have a ton to say about any of them other than one was good and the other two were bad.My wife is a big mountaineering fan. Not that she personally has ever climbed anything higher than a steep hill with a trail, but she loves reading about mountain climbing expeditions and watching films and documentaries about it. So there was no chance that were were not going to watch Tenzing, directed by Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and starring Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe. This film was released just last week on Apple TV.Tenzing is an old-fashioned bio/adventure film, and I mean that in the best sense of the term. It’s about Tenzing and his spiritual connection to the mountain he called Chomolungma and what we call Mount Everest. Of course, Tenzing and Edmund Hillary (Hiddleston) were the first two people to summit the earth’s highest peak, but this telling is all from Tenzing’s point of view and his life story. The film does cast Tenzing and Hillary as kind of kindred spirits, both of whom were cast as outsiders in the mission because neither one was English. Tenzing definitely experienced more