Growing up one of my favorite shows was Hogan’s Heroes. I watched it religiously and one of the side effects was doing a lot of reading about the real POW camps as well as the history of world war II[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to return to one of my favorite genres of film noir. Only this time I decided to touch on the lighter side of it with Film Noir comedy and parody. In hind sight this may not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, researching these gets hard when you get past Gershwin and Queen. But anyway let us get the ball rolling again with Robert Wells and his Rhapsody in Rock #1!
When I first started this week’s theme I thought I’d go with films based on Joseph Conrad stories, but when the first film I came across on my list (after Apocalypse Now) was The Duelists, I decided that doing duelists[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I confess this week I was kind of scraping the barrel for ideas this week (that and one of the films for my plan A list was out) But I still thought that my idea for films about boxing scams[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to touch on films about Ballet. My feeling about ballet is mixed. Half the time I regard it almost more of a sport than an art form and judging a lot of the incredible things the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In honor of the final week of March Madness I decided the perfect choice for this week would be some basketball films I’d been curious about for who knows how long. I figured this was as good an excuse to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to go with something lighter this week so I went with a few comedies on the theme of Holidays. The film that had inspired this idea was Monsieur Hulot’ Holiday by Jacques Tati. I was familiar with Tati’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thought I’d return to westerns once again only this time look at the funny side of the genre with western parodies. Regrettably, I’ve seen the greatest of these, Blazing Saddles so many times that I can recite a lot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This weekI decided to go for some comfort viewing with one of my favorite subgeneras of science fiction, cyberpunk. Regrettably due to the rules of my dipping into Scarecrow’s collection, most of the examples of the genre on film (english[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
