Now that the Halloween season is done, I felt like I had to clear my palette from my month long horror film marathon. So I decided that something silly and innocuous would be a perfect choice. Naturally, I went with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for this week’ selection I decided to go with films starring that legendary action hero, Frank Sinatra… yes really. Sinatra’s career in film was a lot more than just musicals. Having first only seen him in such films as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I decided to entertain myself with some of the seemingly endless selection of parodies of James Bond. The first on my list OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies had been recommended by a friend. I hadn’t heard of,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’d recently watched Takashi Miike‘s adaptation of Blade of the Immortal, a film I enjoyed very much. A friend of mine, who is an even bigger fan of Miike’s work than I am, said this was his favorite Miike film since[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this weeks my topic was… well, it’s tempting to say secret agent… or assassins or… let’s be blunt what we mean is preprogrammed killing machines. The first film on my list, American Ultra tells the story of Mike Howell,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I started to skim the bottom of my list of science fiction films I hadn’t seen yet. I ended up watching a tiny sub-genre that I will choose to refer to as naval time travel… that is to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With Christmas coming in less than a week I found that it was time to start to get my quota of seasonal holiday films over with. I decided to go with my favorite holiday subject, Santa Claus, and all of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To start up the new year in a slightly optimistic note I decided to watch a few comedies and check off a few more items on my Cary Grant list. The first film on my list was one I’d been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple of months ago I did a group of movies about people who were blatantly and totally not Sherlock Holmes. Even if they claimed or even believed to be. This week I decided to go with films about the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I started this week’s selection with a sub-genre I love, the show within a show. Or in this case a film within a film. This quickly changed to films about filmmaking and by sheer coincidence, French films about filmmaking. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
