Once again we reach the day that Alice dreamed she went down the rabbit hole. (I go into detail how we come to that date here) Anyway, in honor of this wonderfully entertaining date let’s celebrate by watching this nice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For various reasons, most likely from reading Terry Pratchett’s Raising Steam for the umpteenth time, I was thinking about trains today. But since trains seems to basic I decided to look at films about train stations and the people work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I was inspired to go and watch dreamlike films where girls, like Alice in Wonderland, go down the rabbit hole, into an amazing, illogical fantasy dream land… Not Alice in Wonderland itself mind you… I’d seen most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been thinking about a potential Discworld/ASOIAF crossover for a while now. (the depressing thing is my Muse has been giving me far more material for this than she’s given me for the comicstrip for a while.) The basic thesis[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Due to miscalculating my budget last month.I had a bad case of the munchies and was inspired to do my next series on foreign food… okay, okay, foreign films about food, happy now? You know that Juzo Itami’s’ Tampopo (Dandelions)…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While reading a review by Roger Ebert on one of the films I reviewed last week he made a point about comedies being products if their cultures and were especially funny in the context of the countries they were made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week I decided to watch some movies about some of the great lovers of history and see what happened. The first film on my list, Fellini’s Casanova. The tells the story of famous lover Giacomo Casanova based on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I hope everybody is having an enjoyable Independence Day. I’m on my way to get my fix of civic community participation in a little bit. (mostly because my muse seemed to have gone there a few hours ago.) and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I’m back and back to watching my weekly selection and decided to dip once again into World War Two, and to keep things interesting I thought I’d focus on the Pacific Theater. While I’d been aware of my first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I started this week’s selection my basic idea was “live action cartoons” based on the way the film on my list had been described. But since I wasn’t having much luck finding a second film that fit that criteria[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
