This week I found myself drawn to watch some more Samurai Films. (Not counting the Kurosawa films I always watch) Specifically, I thought I’d try some of the darker ones. The ones that overtly criticize the code of bushido and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been a fan of Doug Walker’s Nostalgia Critic page for some time. While I don’t pretend to agree with him all the time, his analysis is always good and his points are sound. One of my favorite series he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection, I did films that were explicitly lit about Sherlock Holmes. Or to be more precise, films about reasonable facsimiles of Sherlock Holmes but really aren’t fooling anybody. On a nice side note these were pretty obscure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very special birthday for Mr. Louis Armstrong with We Have All The Time in the World
I while watching one of my favorite film theory youtube channels the other day when It spent a minute talking about British New Wave. Since I’d never even heard of British New Wave (at least not under that name) I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been on a Saul Bass kick for a while, falling love with his incredible opening sequences and stunning posters. One of the posters I liked the best was one from an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection, I picked a pair of melodramas that had the word “Heaven” in it. The first film on my list, All THat Heaven Allows, directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. Wyman plays Cary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very Happy Birthday to Mr. Charlie Parker! Let’s Celebrate with his version of Perdido!
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…
I’m really torn about showing this… I stumbled over it on Arby’s Twitter feed. Now, I’m not much of a fan of Arby’s in general and I’m hardly the one who would want to endorse them… But, but, but… Really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
