I mostly based this week’s selection on my first pic, which I thought would be an interesting indie piece, and based on what I had heard about was an indie companion to films like Cool World and Who Framed Roger[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Halloween starts earlier every year doesn’t it? And why not? If we can stretch the Christmas season out for two months why not stretch out the really fun season for a couple of weeks? So to get things going I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s Halloween selection I returned to the Hammer Horror films and watched the first two sequels to Christopher Lee’s Horror of Dracula. In the Brides of Dracula, we have Mariane Dannielle traveling to her new job teaching at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I started this week’s selection with a sub-genre I love, the show within a show. Or in this case a film within a film. This quickly changed to films about filmmaking and by sheer coincidence, French films about filmmaking. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been a fan of the Youtube channel History Buffs and have been pointed towards several good movies by it. Most recently I was pointed towards a new film about a great naval battle against incredible odds. From there I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I chose romantic comedies involving time travel. The first film on my list, James Mangold’s Kate and Leopold, starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, tells the story of Leopold, the historical 3rd Duke of Albany, and inventor of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a lover of Broadway Musicals, having grown up on my grandfather’s Rodgers and Hammerstein collection, I was aware of one of their lesser-known plays, Carousel. I had always had mixed feelings about it. It had piqued my interest because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It seems like a good idea at the time. Last week’s selection was kind of depressing. Therefore I decided to clear my palate I wanted some light, fluffy comedies. Regrettably, I did not plan ahead enough to go into the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While randomly going through Scarecrow’s science fiction section I settled on the theme that I chose to refer to as “fighting oneself.” When I say this I mean this I mean it literally. I’m talking about the completely fanciful scenario[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been watching a lot of lists of great Science Fiction films on YouTube lately and one of the titles that came up routinely was Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. While I was listening to a lot of these reviewers’ gush, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
