This week, on a friend suggestion (that I have some regrets about) I decided to watch films about cannibals. The first film on my list, Paul Bartel’s Eating Raoul, tells the story of Paul and Mary Bland (Bartel and Mary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s film selection I watched some war comedies. The most I knew about Richard Lester’s How I Won the War is that it was the film with John Lennon in it. I had seen photographs of Lennon dressed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched another batch of conspiracy theory movies. Specifically, I watched movies that dealt with the all of the paranoid fantasies involving the Kennedy Assassination or films that do their own paranoid fantasies, using the Kennedy assassination as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It may have been a bit of a stretch, but for this week’s film selection, I watched films someway connected with the Seven Years War. The film that inspired this selection, Christian-Jaque, parody of swashbuckling films, Fanfan la Tulipe, was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s selection I thought I’d take a break and watch something fun and lightweight, Specifically, I went with some Sherlock Holmes parodies. The first film on my list The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother starring Gene Wilder,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So for this week’s them I chose movies about writers and the struggles of all writers who are fighting with the creative process. (Originally I thought I’d go with straight writer’s block but it wasn’t quite as accurate as I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the week’s selection, I went with films about pulp adventure, or more accurately films that parodied films like Indiana Jones and similar pulp films. The first film on my list was J. Lee Thompson’s Firewalker, starring Chuck Norris, Lou[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched movies satirizing the madness of war. In both of these movies I want to emphasize the difference between satire and flat-out parody since while both of these movies had its share of gallows humor, your amusement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I chose romantic comedies involving time travel. The first film on my list, James Mangold’s Kate and Leopold, starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, tells the story of Leopold, the historical 3rd Duke of Albany, and inventor of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week selection I went back to science fiction. I wanted to do comedy. But since I mostly scraped the barrel for most of the obvious science fiction parities I needed to go deeper into the realm of satire. Going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
