A very happy birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong! Let’s celebrate with his version of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” When I first heard about this one I was about to write this off as another retread of a show tune. But[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I I decided to watch comedies (yes, comedies) about spouses trying to kill their spouses. The first film on my list was Elaine May’s A New Leaf starring May and Walter Matthau. Matthau plays Henry Graham, a spoiled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a lover of Broadway Musicals, having grown up on my grandfather’s Rodgers and Hammerstein collection, I was aware of one of their lesser-known plays, Carousel. I had always had mixed feelings about it. It had piqued my interest because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I return to Shakespeare again, specifically Hamlet. Just to clarify, neither of these are technically adaptations of the play, as in they are not using the original script in any way. They are just modern versions… sort of. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very Happy Birthday to Mr. Charlie Parker! Let us celebrate with his version of, I Didn’t Know What Time It Was.
This week I took another look at films about Hustlers. The first film on my list, Ron Shelton’s White Men Can’t Jump starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, tells the story of Sidney Deane (Snipes) a fast-talking streetball hustler who works[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been considering checking out Blaxploitation films, ever since Cartoon Network’s animated version of Black Dynamite came out. I knew that, while it certainly was a very fun show, I didn’t have the vocabulary to know why it was utterly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I watched comedies about homebuilding, more specifically the horror that is a fixer-upper. The first film on my list was H. C. Porter’s Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas. Cary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I officially declare the Halloween season started, and to start things off in my month of horror films the subject vampire girls! The first on my list was one I’ve been hearing quite a bit about Ana Lily Amirpour’s A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the second week of my Halloween film marathon, I decided to go with the genre that I’ve been avoiding for me in the year, zombie apocalypse. I thought I’d start at the beginning, or more accurately close to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
