While I’m sure some people will disagree with me, in my own way I consider myself a patriot. I love my country and as a scholar of history, I believe in exceptionalism (though I don’t deny the existence of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My initial idea for a theme this week was something in the way of people trying to maintain the façade of an artificial reality. Unfortunately I’d seen most of the movies that could go with the movie that had inspired[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week, on a friend suggestion (that I have some regrets about) I decided to watch films about cannibals. The first film on my list, Paul Bartel’s Eating Raoul, tells the story of Paul and Mary Bland (Bartel and Mary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s film selection I watched some war comedies. The most I knew about Richard Lester’s How I Won the War is that it was the film with John Lennon in it. I had seen photographs of Lennon dressed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched movies satirizing the madness of war. In both of these movies I want to emphasize the difference between satire and flat-out parody since while both of these movies had its share of gallows humor, your amusement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week selection I went back to science fiction. I wanted to do comedy. But since I mostly scraped the barrel for most of the obvious science fiction parities I needed to go deeper into the realm of satire. Going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
