I hadn’t done Wuxia for a while (to be honest I’m not sure if I’ve really done it at all the one time I did it I technically had it labeled under tragedy. This time I decided to go truly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since the holidays are upon us I decided to go with Christmas movies or in this case christmas-ish films since in both of their cases to call them Christmas films is a bit of a stretch. With one taking place[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As people may guess from the Rhapsodies annual Christmas story, Santa Claus has always been the favorite part of Christmas. When I was growing up I took great pleasure in deluding myself over his existence. (Technically I still do but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The main point of my selection was courtroom drama, but as I viewed them I found them to be wonderfully similar to each other. Both featured lawyers stuck in their personal limb who are given a case provides them with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A lot of my fellow Science Fiction geek friends have been recommending the new HBO series, Westworld to me. So I figured before I go check it out I might as well watch the original. Based on this I decided[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I returned to one of my favorite genres, Swashbucklers, specifically pirates. The first film on my list was The Black Swan a story loosely based on actual history with the aftermath of the former pirate, Sir[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s entry I decided to get my Science Fiction fix on with Alien Invaders, specifically what TVTropes likes to call “Aliens in Cardiff” which is to say stories where the aliens invasion occurs in places where the world[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sn1w1yJKKEFor this week’s selection I went with an old favorite, seventies car chase films. I used to love these things, Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit, even (especially) the Blues Brothers. These days I find them mildly gratuitous , and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I Can’t believe I had to be reminded of this but a very happy birthday to Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln! While the two never met I still like to pretend that they would have enjoyed each other’s company over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I thought I’d do something different with movies that inspired popular sitcoms. This was harder than it sounds because I’d seen most of the obvious ones like MASH and Private Benjemin, and I didn’t really have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
